As part of their new “re-branding” initiative, House Republicans, to modest fanfare, unveiled their “American Families Agenda” last week. Ordinarily, a “families agenda” driven by the GOP would include a fairly predictable conservative wish list, built around anti-gay measures and legislation to promote state-sponsored religion. It took Republicans an awfully long while, but it appears […]
When the McCain quietly acknowledged on Saturday that Tom Loeffler, the national finance co-chairman of the presidential campaign, had resigned over his lobbying ties, advisors probably hoped it would go by largely unnoticed. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff ran with the story, and blogs picked up on it, but would five key campaign resignations in a week […]
I can’t help but enjoy the fact that Barack Obama is successfully taking attacks from George W. Bush and John McCain, and turning them into a positive. He’s effectively taking GOP talking points, and throwing them back in their face. Sen. Barack Obama went one step further today in his pushback against presumptive GOP presidential […]
Following up on an earlier item, the McCain campaign has had to get rid of its convention manager, one of its national finance co-chairs, a regional campaign manager, and a senior aide, all within the last week, and all because they were lobbyists discovered to have worked for controversial clients, most notably Burma’s military junta. […]
Barack Obama campaigned in Michigan this week, and during his trip, he met privately with a prominent Muslim leader. It wasn’t especially noteworthy; candidates meet with prominent religious leaders frequently, from a variety of faiths, in communities nationwide. Imam Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Center of America, said in an email that he met […]
There are pockets of angry Clinton campaign supporters who, at least for now, claim they if they can’t have their candidate at the top of the ticket, they no longer care if the Democratic Party wins back the White House. For these isolated few, the goal isn’t to advance a progressive agenda, or to make […]
That the McCain campaign thought it would be wise to bring in high-priced Washington lobbyists to run the entire operation is bizarre. It’s considerably worse, however, that neither McCain nor anyone around him thought about checking to see who these lobbyists worked for before they took over the campaign operation. For a candidate running as […]
I’d assumed, if Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee for president, that even unhinged, far-right writers would be cautious about how they’d go about smearing him. Unbridled racism would be considered a political liability, and therefore shunned. Transparent nativism might work for conservatives in certain communities, but might also annoy moderate suburbanites, and would probably […]
When evidence surfaced yesterday that John McCain advocated at least some kind of diplomatic relationship between the United States and Hamas, I assumed the McCain campaign would just say the senator has since changed his mind. After all, the Presidential Candidate McCain frequently bears no resemblance to Senator McCain, and the two routinely take the […]
Let’s hope for the best. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was hospitalized Saturday after suffering stroke-like symptoms, according to a knowledgeable official. There was no immediate word on his condition. The official who provided the information declined to be identified by name, citing the sensitivity of the events. Hyannis Fire Lt. Bill Rex told […]