The Fierce Urgency of Now
The defining character of the 2008 election is what Barack Obama has called "the fierce urgency of now." We simply cannot drift through another four years of aimless "staying the course."
People deride the Republican candidate as "McSame," implying a continuation of Bushonomics as well as the president's foreign policy. But from the perspective of domestic policy, it's much worse. His tax plan reveals nothing less than McCain's secret plan to diminish the US government beyond recognition. If he gets his way, conservatives will finally be able to say they've achieved the goal set out by Grover Norquist: to get government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
The defining character of the 2008 election is what Barack Obama has called "the fierce urgency of now." We simply cannot drift through another four years of aimless "staying the course."
When the best hope for peace in Darfur ultimately lies at a conference table, it is dispiriting but not surprising that government officials are refusing to negotiate with the rebel group JEM.
Your failure to pledge now risks returning those passionate, first-time voters to a political landscape that caused them to maintain such distance from the Democratic Party before.
He could defy conventional wisdom by treating rural white voters like adults, helping them plan a real path to economic health and sustainability rather than telling them fairy tales about coal.
Cindy McCain's pain in this interview makes it that much harder to believe that the attacks against her daughter and her 2000 vote could be that exclusive of one another.
If there were ever a perfect example of the Bush administration's utterly bankrupt foreign policy, it would have to be the State Department's reaction to events in Beirut over the last few days.
A law intended to benefit Republicans may instead have won the election for the Democrat running the more Republican-style campaign.
In her book, Arianna contrasts the non-coverage of the Downing Street Memo in May 2005 with the massive attention lavished on Natalee Holloway and the Michael Jackson trial.
Many peace groups make it clear that while they oppose the war, they support our troops. McCain's real campaign slogan ought to be: I support the war, but I oppose our troops.
Just when I thought all the polling questions had been asked, the Wall Street Journal came through with a story about brides who survey their friends about wedding decisions.
As all of this racism oozes out of the political establishment for all to see, we can recognize just how bigoted American culture is -- and recognition is the first step towards addressing a problem.
A vote for McCain is a vote against a viable Republican Party. It's a vote for the poisonous lunatic fringe that's taken over the heart of the Party and driven people like Arianna and me out.