I once heard a Chinese curse that goes something like this, "May you have an interesting life." In that spirit, as the end game for Barack Obama's running-mate selection plays out, Hillary Rodham Clinton would be the most interesting.

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Talk of John Edwards losing his public career forever is just plain silly. Such a fate for having an extramarital affair and lying about it would mean that millions should be added to the already rising numbers of jobless Americans.

Even political figures ought to be allowed to survive a...

It looks like John McCain is shaking up the staff just in time. Whose bright idea was it to put the expected GOP nominee in Mexico of all places -- on the day that the next round of jobless numbers were coming out?

Today McCain is in Mexico, forced to...

It is always easy to make fun of Ralph Nader -- primarily because the man has no sense of humor. Here in Washington, the nation's capital of the humorless, Nader is in a league of his own.

I once picked him up for a panel discussion, tried to make a...

For the sake of Barack Obama's enthusiastic supporters, I was happy to get a call from campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor pushing back on this talk of an image makeover for Michelle Obama.

Vietor explained that Mrs. Obama's appearance this week on The View had been in the works for a...

Tom Brokaw's NBC special on Sunday, replacing what surely would have been another newsmaking Meet the Press with Tim Russert, got the job done.

With clips showing Russert at the top of his game, holding newsmakers accountable, Brokaw offered the tribute that the late host would prefer -- scenes of...

A new book on Karl Rove, Machiavelli's Shadow by Paul Alexander, recalls a personal experience I had with George W. Bush's political guru. I had forgotten that I talked to the author until reading this excerpt from a review of the book on the Washington Examiner's web site:

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Might Hillary Rodham Clinton carry her crusade for Florida and Michigan beyond her own presidential campaign?

Interviewed in Florida on Wednesday, the struggling Democratic hopeful vowed to go all the way to the national convention if necessary to seat delegates from the renegade states.

"I will consult...

PHILADELPHIA -- The Pennsylvania primary launched Hillary Clinton on a difficult, but feasible path to ultimately leading the nationwide popular vote in the Democratic presidential race.

In yesterday's Keystone State primary, she cut Barack Obama's national overall lead by some 200,000 votes. That still leaves him half-a-million votes ahead...

Thanks to John McCain, there is a new word in the Iraq war lexicon. Gone is George W. Bush's talk of "victory" or "winning." The new standard is merely "success."

More than a dozen times in his short opening statement on Tuesday at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on...

PHILADELPHIA -- Watching the tube in Pennsylvania these days might as well be called watching OBAMA TV. I've seen my share of saturation advertising buys during campaigns, but this is unprecedented. In a five-hour session of watching one network I counted 14 ads sponsored by Barack Obama, compared to a...

John McCain is marching to a military tune this week, touting his family's heritage in armed forces. Make no mistake about the positive-negative message that the Republican nominee-to-be is sending out. Stressing that he is the "son and grandson of admirals" who taught him "how to love my country" is...

Of all the ideas floating around among Democrats seeking to avoid a summer-long meltdown, the early June superdelegate "mini-convention" seems to be the most fair, reasonable and obtainable solution on the table.

The idea is to have superdelegates meet right after the primaries conclude and settle this feud between Barack...

State Democrats Release Re-Vote Plan

ORLANDO -- Florida Democrats today put the finishing touches on a presidential re-vote plan that almost no one likes, but represents the last hope (while perhaps not the best hope) for salvaging the state's nominating role without a bruising fight at the national convention.

ORLANDO -- With over 4 million registered Democrats in Florida, the proposed vote-by-mail redo of the state's presidential primary would be a grand but potentially disastrous experiment -- just verifying the signatures on the returned ballots could be a nightmare reminiscent of the 2000 debacle.

Here's a solution: Only send...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama might be stuck with each other -- not just for the long haul to the Democratic nominating convention, but well beyond. They might have to run together, whatever the order and whether they like it or not.

The most likely scenario going forward is...

It is actually funny to watch Republicans trying to boost Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination. Does anyone really believe that President George W. Bush and GOP nominee-to-be John McCain are doing everything possible to aggravate and energize Democratic primary voters who support Obama because they would rather run...

Was it the awkward handshake at the end or the half-hearted delivery of scripted attack lines that made Hillary Rodham Clinton come across as the one conceding the race in the Democratic presidential debate on Thursday?

Surprisingly, Clinton showed no signs of a combatant who had come to change the...

The news media's long-awaited scrubbing of Barack Obama's concrete plans for governing has begun and, not surprisingly, it doesn't take long. The Democratic presidential contender's famously inspirational speeches offer little sustenance for wonks.

Obama's supporters and advisers refer pesky policy inquiries to the campaign website, but it is difficult to...

If I were Barack Obama I would tell my flaks in the news media to shut up in the final days before elections. The chattering crowd's frenzy for this man only raises expectations that he cannot meet.

As a result, what was otherwise not too shabby a night for...