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: * Interesting fundraising item from Roll Call: “Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday established a joint fundraising agreement with 18 state Democratic parties to funnel money into those […]
Barack Obama had planned an overseas trip as part of his presidential campaign for quite a while, but plans were delayed when the Democratic nominating fight took a little longer than expected. Now, there’s a window between the 4th of July, the Olympics, and the start of the conventions, and Obama is ready to head […]
Over the weekend, John McCain told the New York Times that he opposes gay adoption, even if the alternative is leaving a child in an orphanage. A few days later, McCain’s campaign reversed course and said the senator doesn’t actually believe what he said — “caring parental figures,” even if they’re gay, are “better for […]
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Barack Obama’s campaign had raised $30 million in June, only marginally better than John McCain’ $22 million haul for the month. The Journal described Obama’s totals as “underwhelming,” and the Washington Post added that Obama’s finance machine was showing “signs of wear.” In response, Obama spokesperson Dan […]
By all appearances, Barack Obama has a genuine friendship with Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana, despite the fact that Lugar is a conservative Republican. The two don’t agree on much, but they’ve worked closely on counter-proliferation — a point that Obama emphasized in a new TV ad unveiled on Tuesday. “The single most important national […]
One of the more painful aspects of the media’s coverage of the Democratic presidential primaries was the ridiculous coverage of Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits and cleavage. Now that the primaries are over, we’re less than four months from the general election, there’s an endless stream of substantive news stories to report, and Hillary Clinton isn’t even […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Well, that’s not good: “Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 1982 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, giving the Federal Reserve even more reason to be concerned about inflation. The cost of living soared 1.1 percent, more than forecast, after a 0.6 […]
On Monday, the New York Daily News reported that the Obama campaign had “scrubbed” its website to “remove criticism of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq.” The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a “problem” that had barely reduced violence. “The surge is not working,” Obama’s […]
Two weeks ago, the misguided ideologues at the Wall Street Journal editorial page offered a novel argument: it’s Barack Obama, not John McCain, who’s actually “running for … Bush’s third term.” It was unusually dumb, even for the WSJ editorial page, and was premised on a series of bizarre lies and distortions. Even unhinged conservatives […]
As readers may have noticed, I added a permanent link to the list of John McCain’s flip-flops, just under the search feature. I’ve received quite a bit of positive feedback on the list, and several people encouraged me to make it easier to find. This should do the trick. Instead of periodically running updated lists, […]