As Charlie Rose summed it up, the theme of the HuffPost panel was convergence, with all the panelists agreeing that the old debate pitting print vs. online is obsolete. One of the highlights of the day turned out to be will.i.am's unique way of sizing up the changes in the media landscape.
Hillary Clinton's job, we were told, was to unite her supporters behind Barack Obama. The speech she gave had several mentions apiece of her chosen themes -- only one thing was left out.
Obama and Carter's similarities overlook two key differences that suggest a better outcome should Obama be elected.
Hypocrisy, the tribute that vice pays to virtue, is a bipartisan Washington ritual. So politicians like McCain often espouse the family values that they flaunt in practice.
The talking heads doubted she'd do it. The Hillary haters doubted she would do it. The anti-Clintonites doubted she could do it. But boy did she do it.
So this is what political journalism has come to -- evidence-free, unaccountable, redfaced, shouted, demagogic cocksure mindreading.
McCain likes to say that Obama is willing to lose a war (in Iraq) to win a campaign. Interestingly, it appears that McCain is willing to start a new cold war to win a campaign.
The message we get from "Our Man On The Floor," is that there is a wonderful buzz building around both Michelle Obama and Joe Biden.
I was watching MSNBC and CNN -- but it felt like ESPN. I could not believe the convention coverage: they were analyzing things as if it were college sports.
This is not an election about policy or vision, it's not about climate change, economic disparity, or war, no, clearly it's about what spiritual journey a child takes between the ages of 6 and 10.
Both men have written strange, searching books about their fathers. It is in their pages that we can find the clearest -- and most haunting -- clues to their potential presidencies.
As the world gazed upon this regal African American woman in her royal blue dress, there were tears of grief shed for women just like Michelle who endured water hoses, police batons, and dogs over 40 years ago.
McCain needs a new Cold War. He can win only as a war president. He neither knows nor cares much about the economic meltdown, the consequence of the deregulation mania that he supports.
