The primary season was constructed so that Super Tuesday, which occurred this year aeons ago back on February 5, was supposed to be decisive in indicating a winner. This would make it easier to consolidate the party behind the nominee … Continue reading →
From last night’s Bill Moyers PBS interview with Jeremiah Wright, the quote that got the most attention was this: [Obama]’s a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as … Continue reading →
In National Journal, Linda Douglass offers us a glimpse into a phase of McCain’s career I hadn’t previously known about. In the late 70s, he was the Navy’s liaison to the Senate, and it turns out to have been one … Continue reading →
A Presidential campaign is not a tea party, and it’s a bizarre and ultimately unrealistic affectation to think it won’t go negative sooner or later. How can a candidate just say how wonderful he/she is without saying what’s wrong with … Continue reading →
…cling bitterly to Hillary Clinton. Random questions and observations: I wonder whether the Democratic Party will change its proportionate primary process come 2012. I wonder whether the Democratic Party will figure out a way to seat or to redo Florida … Continue reading →
It’s Pennsylvania primary day, an appropriate moment to meditate on whatever would make a person want to enter this particular fray. Who would wish to campaign so long and so hard for a prize that represents one of the most … Continue reading →
Obama sneered in response to Hillary’s claim to fond memories of being taught to shoot by her father at her grandfather’s cottage (near Scranton, PA, no less!), and of duck-hunting: Shame on her….She, how she values the second amendment, she’s … Continue reading →
I’ve written previously about Barack Obama’s masterful use of words as a smokescreen. His lawyerly skills serve him well in this regard. But Peter Wehner has been on his case lately as opposing counsel. Obama has been spending time distancing … Continue reading →
I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the main themes of the coming election isn’t just “change.” It’s guts. Why else would Hillary lie about having come under fire in Bosnia? Surely claiming there was physical danger involved in … Continue reading →
I read this Spencer Ackerman piece with some interest, thinking it promised to define Obama’s foreign policy. And, since Obama has been roundly criticized for being all rhetoric, with no “there” there (as Gertrude Stein would say), I was looking … Continue reading →
What is it about Florida and voting? The state seems cursed. Along with Michigan, it’s become the center of a Democratic political firestorm because of an earlier decision by national Party leaders to disallow its primary due to violations of … Continue reading →
John Heileman has an article in New York Magazine listing ten reasons Eliot Spitzer was politically undone by his infidelities while Bill Clinton managed to survive his. The most important reasons seem to be that Spitzer had already become very … Continue reading →