For quite some time, as the number of remaining primaries dwindled to single digits, the Clinton campaign continued to look at the circle around May 31 on the calendar. It was the meeting of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee that offered at least some hope that the broader dynamic of the Democratic race could […]
Ouch. (via TP) [Sen. Lindsey] Graham used his remarks to embrace President Bush, just hours before he was to meet Bush at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and accompany him to Furman University for a presidential commencement address that has divided the campus. At his first mention of Bush’s visit, Graham paused, waiting for applause. When it […]
It looks like the Rev. Michael Pfleger’s guest sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ last weekend was one step too far. The priest, known as a “radical gadfly,” went after Hillary Clinton from Trinity’s pulpit, accusing her of harboring a sense of entitlement because she is white. Pfleger later apologized, and Obama publicly expressed […]
Jim Blanchard, the former governor of Michigan, noted yesterday, “I’m reminded of the old Will Rogers adage, which was: ‘I belong to no organized party. I’m a Democrat.’” Ain’t that the truth. Mark Twain is believed to have said that those who respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. If we […]
Members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee met privately for more than three hours, and apparently hammered out a compromise deal. As expected, it fell short of the Clinton campaign’s more recent demands. Democratic party officials said a committee agreed Saturday on a compromise to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half-votes after Barack […]
TNR’s Eve Fairbanks reports from DC: Howard Dean may hope that the “healing will begin today,” but two blocks away from the northwest Washington Marriott where the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting right now to try to figure out Florida and Michigan, the Hillary protesters are occupying an utterly alternate (and healing-free) universe: […]
Let no one say the Obama campaign is unwilling to take advantage of opportunities that avail themselves. Last night, Barack Obama hammered John McCain for his bogus claim that U.S. forces in Iraq have been “drawn down to pre-surge levels.” Today, Obama keeps the pressure on: “We all misspeak sometimes. I’ve done it myself. So […]
Republicans have been known, from time to time, to use the politics of fear to get ahead. That, of course, includes scaring the bejeezus out of their own rank-and-file supporters, in order to get them to open their checkbooks. But former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) seems to have laid it on pretty thick […]
It’s become quite entertaining to highlight John McCain’s similarities with Still-President Bush, on everything from the major policy issues to the identical words they use to describe various challenges. But I can’t help but notice that McCain isn’t just eerily similar to the president, he’s also following the strategy Bush used eight years ago. John […]
After a brief hiatus, The God machine was busy this week with plenty of interesting items of note. First up is a disconcerting story out of Iraq, about residents of Fallujah angered by conversions efforts of a U.S. Marine. The U.S. military confirmed Thursday that a Marine in Fallujah passed out coins with a Gospel […]