I get the sense the Obama campaign is having a pretty good day. With Hillary Clinton’s landslide victory in the West Virginia primary in the rear-view mirror, and John Edwards’ high-profile endorsement yesterday, Obama and his team have spent the afternoon fighting with Bush and McCain, which is exactly the dynamic Obama wants more of. […]
In the morning, the president, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, suggested that Democrats want to appease terrorists, the way some wanted to appease Hitler. In the afternoon, the White House thought it best to play dumb. Q:There’s some question about his comment here about “some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists […]
Following up on an earlier item, the president spoke to the Israeli Knesset this morning, and instead of using the occasion to honor the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel, Bush took ugly and cheap shots at Barack Obama and Democrats, equating their foreign policy with Nazi appeasement. The response has been swift. John […]
It looks like California is poised to join Massachusetts as states where gay and lesbian residents can get legally married. The California Supreme Court has overturned a gay marriage ban in a ruling that would make the nation’s largest state the second one to allow gay and lesbian weddings. The justices’ 4-3 decision Thursday says […]
When explaining his position on Iraqi reconciliation, John McCain told an audience last year, “One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, ‘Stop the bullshit.’” This morning, in a similar vein, McCain told an Ohio audience about his vision of […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * What’s up on the superdelegate front? Over the last 24 hours, Obama has picked up two (Mike Morgan in Oklahoma and Lena Taylor in Wisconsin) and Clinton got one (Vicky Harwell of […]
While there have been plenty of polls suggesting John McCain would enjoy more support from elderly voters than Barack Obama, I’ve taken some solace in the fact that very few voters, in any age group, realize just how wrong McCain is about Social Security. For voters over a certain age, it has the potential to […]
How are they going to play? This is how they’re going to play. In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War […]
Yesterday afternoon, retiring Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), the former chairman of the NRCC, issued a 20-page memo on the Republican Party’s electoral woes. “The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November is the worst since Watergate and is far more toxic than it was in 2006,” he wrote. Davis’ point about the weakness of the […]
Given the mystery surrounding John McCain’s wife’s finances, stories like these are not going to help matters. Cindy McCain, the wife of the Republican presumptive nominee for president, has sold off at least $2 million she held in funds with investments in Sudan businesses. The mutual funds — American Funds Europacific Growth and American Funds […]