Barack Obama's foreign policy vision makes references to Franklin Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, but ultimately his vision boils down to a single word: responsible.
Gravel, Dodd, Richardson, Biden and Kucinich spent most of the evening trying to push their way into what was structured visually as a three way conversation at center stage.
The dominant election language on abortion has switched to "safe, legal and rare," so Democrats have a decision to make: do we march into the 2008 election embracing the "abortion is murder" frame?
Rather than dump that old Bush-Cheney bunk about a vote for the Democrats being a vote for nuclear annihilation by "terrorists," many Republicans are framing the debate with a new word: "Jihadism."
A Giuliani presidency would likely make strip search-style policies a regular part of our American culture. That is to say: more regular than they have become in the Bush presidency.
Nothing the Democrats in Congress can do in their efforts to stop the Iraq policy can harm our soldiers more than the Bush administration harms them every single day. Nothing!
Luntz not only has a history of misrepresenting facts, he has a documented track record of posing as an impartial expert on public broadcasting in order to launch partisan attacks on Democrats.