At the megachurch known as Saddleback, Barack Obama and John McCain last night fielded questions from the popular right-leaning pastor, Rick Warren. The candidates were presented in serial one-on-one Q-and-A sessions (transcript) with the evangelical preacher, addressing topics ranging from leadership to human rights for fetuses to the nature...

In another veepstakes edition of "Meet the Press," a roundtable composed of two men and two women offered no bets by anybody on a woman vice presidential candidate. PBS's Judy Woodruff said Barack Obama's pick would be either Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine or Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh. NBC's Andrea...

When Barack Obama told Tom Brokaw last Sunday that his poll numbers reflected the fact that he didn't "look like previous commanders-in-chief," I took a deep breath. This was different.

In the past, Obama has sought to avoid addressing the impact of his race on the presidential contest,...

Make that a "slutty dumb blonde" joke.

Much has been written about John McCain's latest television ad -- the one that compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton -- in the less-than- 24 hours since it was unveiled. (Click here for Greg Sargent's assessment.) But...

Just as Barack Obama began to shake off his jet lag from last week's big trip overseas, the New York Times today broke news that supports Obama's case for putting Pakistan and Afghanistan front and center in the fight against global terrorism.

On July 12, a week...

For years I've been advocating, fulminating, pontificating -- okay, ranting -- that until the political folks welcomed artists into full participation in the progressive movement, there would really be no movement. (Think about it: What do we remember about the 1960s in our cellular memory? The music, man. The poetry,...

Under grilling this morning by Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press today, Barack Obama refused to play coy on any potential pick for the vice presidential slot on the Democratic ticket, offering only this clue: he wants someone with whom he can govern, he said, and someone who brings to...

Critics may quibble with John McCain's definition of the surge in Iraq -- a little bit this, a little bit that. But to go after McCain on his definition is to miss the larger point: that by McCain's own definition, the surge is no success. Just ask Ayad Allawi, the...

If last week held the potential for a woman to grace the Democratic ticket in the Number 2 spot, this week the wags seem to be working to dispel that notion. In today's New York Times, Adam Nagourney and Patrick Healy offer up a list of potential Obama vice...

A few hours into his journey to the two key lands occupied by American troops, Barack Obama is feeling the love. Indeed, it seems as if leaders in both Iraq and Afghanistan are looking for some change they can believe in.

As I reported for The Media Consortium, on...

This morning's face-off between the McCain campaign's Carly Fiorina and the Obama campaign's Claire McCaskill on NBC's Meet the Press served up an historic television moment; it was the first time in the show's history, said moderator Tom Brokaw, that two women had appeared together on the show as the...

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared together at a campaign rally in Unity, New Hampshire, last week.

If you thought Hillary Clinton's exit from the presidential race would signal the end of the...

There's one good reason not to offer Hillary Clinton the vice presidential spot. Sabotage, thy name is Bill.

Hillary Clinton would make a great vice president. And the veep spot would put her in line to be the first woman to lead the nation, which she would do...