I have a friend who isn’t ordinarily very political. But from the start she’s been taken with Obama, and supported him enough to do some canvassing for him during the primaries—the first time in her long life that she’s actually … Continue reading →
I’ve often stated that I used to be a Democrat, but no more. Now I belong to neither party, and I don’t think I ever will again, except perhaps for strategic registration before a primary. I sometimes wonder how someone … Continue reading →
Last week a proposal to lift the moratorium on shale oil extraction was narrowly defeated in a Senate committee. The vote was along strictly party lines, Republicans for lifting the ban and Democrats against. What a surprise. All of this … Continue reading →
Hillary won big yesterday in West Virginia. Really, really big. And it couldn’t matter less. Once again, the press is filled with pleas for her to go. Now. Clean out her desk and her locker and turn in her keys, … Continue reading →
Hillary Clinton’s become persona non grata to Democratic leaders and the pundits sympathetic to them, who’d like nothing better than for her to go away and make nice to the new nominee, Obama. Why oh why won’t she just fall … Continue reading →
Hillary is like a burr on the body politic of the Democrats and the MSM—they can’t shake her off, try though they may. Yesterday’s primary results—an expectedly large margin of victory for Obama in North Carolina and a surprisingly small … Continue reading →
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 →