We're crossing our fingers that Obama's effort to bring the country together won't stop him from bringing to justice those who have broken a host of laws in tearing it apart.
Bob Franken | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
The "More of the Same with John McCain" campaign continues its uphill ride on the Straight Talk Express. McCain's best hope is is that the Democrats will find some ridiculous way to lose this election.
Bob Burnett | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Despite John McCain's maladroit campaign, his association with an unpopular president, and his general ineptness as a candidate, the race will be disturbingly close.
The Hill | Alexander Bolton and Michael O’Brien | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Few House Republicans have contributed to Sen. John McCain since he clinched the Republican nomination at the end of February. McCain, Arizona's seni...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign dispatched its top female surrogate Tuesday to meet with about 25 disaffected supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton in Westchester, N...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Without a microscopic examination of the seething cauldron of Iraqi partisan politics, it's safe to say that Maliki knows which way the wind is blowing. The Iraqi people want to know -- "when is the U.S. leaving?"
John McQuaid | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Even on its own terms -- as an attempted insight into Obama's alleged finickiness or his supposed distance from the Applebee's set -- Maureen Dowd's obsession with Obama and food doesn't make sense.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
About a week ago, Republican media specialist Alex Castellanos asked pollster Scott Rasmussen to add a question to one of his surveys: If the November...
Simon Woods | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
In the age of reality TV, there is a danger that the paradigms of pop culture have become the model of the American Dream for a generation of young people. Barack Obama is addressing that danger.
Catherine Specter | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
I miss Bill Clinton. It was so much more fun to debate the ridiculousness of his impeachment than to walk on eggshells around subjects as we do today.
Harold L. Wilensky | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Democratic voting myths can turn a potential Democratic sweep this November into a near miss if Barack Obama fails to grasp the meaning and distribution of the votes for Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
WS | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Bill Sali is defying the political odds by making Idaho's first-district congressional race competitive. That isn't good for Mr. Sali: He is the incum...
Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
We're betting this 527 group is nothing more than a conduit for one or two very large donations intended to get around election law to the benefit of candidate McCain.
AP | GLEN JOHNSON and DAN SEWELL | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
CINCINNATI — Democrat Barack Obama received a prideful welcome from the annual NAACP convention Monday night, but in a stirring speech to the na...
McClatchy Newspapers | Julie Sell | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
From Australia to South Africa, from the Bosporus to northern France, American fans of Barack Obama have been staging rallies abroad at world-famous b...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
McCain's going to have to come up with some new spin to explain why Obama and Maliki are now singing from the same songbook on timetables for withdrawal.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
In their eagerness to sell voters on their Christianity, Obama and McCain have forgotten one critical fact: you cannot truly practice what Jesus taught and be successful in politics. After all, it was the politicians of his day who killed Jesus.
MarketWatch | Mark Hulbert | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) -- Here is today's investment pop quiz: Does the stock market perform better during Democratic or Republican presidencies...
Mark Green | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
John Kerry on Obama's platform: "People on our side of the fence have just got to wake up to realize that, you know, you're not going to agree with somebody one hundred percent of the time."
ClimateProgress | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
The Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) has just released details of the new public opinion poll I mentioned earlier this month in my post abou...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
Obama has catered to the middle with gun control, telecom immunity, the death penalty, faith-based initiatives, and troop withdrawal landmarks. The only man who can save us now is Ralph Nader.
RJ Eskow | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
If Obama's core value is unity, Democrats should know better than to expect him to fight their partisan fights for them. While he may disappoint them, they can also learn to respect the fact that he's being true to himself.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Humanity, of course, is what media jackals like Matt Drudge and Bill O'Reilly feed on. The flaws. And we fall for it. We think it's news. We believe that people the media set up as gods are in fact gods.
John Ridley | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
While it's never a shock when operatives of the far, far right have trouble with a person of color achieving stature, what a long strange trip this campaign season has been watching so-called liberals fumble the hot potato that is Barack Obama.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
John McCain said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday "that he was uncertain how many houses he and his...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics