On this holiday of sorts, I extend best wishes to all the Dads checking in on the site today. In light of the occasion, I thought it appropriate to note this terrific speech Barack Obama delivered at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago today. “Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, […]
For all of the enormous differences between Barack Obama and John McCain, running second are the differences between John McCain and himself. It’s a little long for TV, but with a little snip here and there, this would make quite an ad.
For several weeks, a variety of political observers, most notably ThinkProgress’ Amanda Terkel and Matt Corley, have highlighted Karl Rove’s connections to John McCain’s campaign. And for several weeks, Bush’s former chief strategist — the man the president affectionately calls “Turd Blossom” — has been arguing that there really isn’t a relationship. Just a couple […]
Mike Allen highlighted today’s episode of “Meet the Press,” coming less than 48 hours after the unexpected death of its host, Tim Russert. On a memorial edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Tim Russert was remembered in his studio as a friend of politicians who prepared rigorously for the powerful show and was “offended” […]
Several years ago, Jeb Bush and Florida Republicans created the nation’s first state-wide voucher scheme, disregarding language in the state Constitution that prohibits state funds from going to private religious schools and institutions. The program sparked a lawsuit, and the voucher system was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court. So, before Republicans and voucher […]
This Michelle Obama quote, uttered back in February, is probably the Republicans’ single favorite development of the presidential campaign. “What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something — for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am […]
We saw an interesting political/media controversy this week when Fox News characterized Michelle Obama as “Obama’s baby mama.” (The phrase is slang for an unwed mother who gets no support from a baby’s father.) The Wall Street Journal had a good item the other day putting the flap in the broader context of media scrutiny […]
It makes perfect sense that the McCain campaign would make at least cursory efforts to reach out to Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters. John McCain does, after all, have very little to lose. There are some lingering hard feelings after the longest and closest Democratic presidential primary ever, and even though the intra-party factions agree […]
What Barack Obama said: He warned that the general election campaign could get ugly. “They’re going to try to scare people. They’re going to try to say that ‘that Obama is a scary guy,’” he said. A donor yelled out a deep accented “Don’t give in!” “I won’t but that sounded pretty scary. You’re a […]
At first blush, this doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. Many of Hillary Clinton’s supporters were women, many of whom were excited by the prospect of having a woman head a major-party presidential ticket for the first time. Clinton, of course, came up just short of her goal. Now, however, it appears that […]