John McCain and Sarah Palin have criticized Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their willingness to talk with world leaders without preconditions. First, it's either naive or a fabrication when McCain suggests Obama will suddenly pop up at a negotiation with the leadership of Iran. There are always...

Last night Joe Biden revealed how intelligent, passionate, sincere, and thoughtful he really is. He gave us "Joe being Joe" and he couldn't have done better.

Sarah Palin did well, as many expected she would in a venue that lent itself to brief formal speeches punctuated by moderator questions....

There is an unstated rule in negotiation. It is that on the day of reckoning you do not give the opposition a reason to walk away. The Republicans were looking for an out and Nancy Pelosi inadvertently gave them one.

Even if they were going to vote against...

I don't know Sarah Palin. Who does? They've kept her away from the press. And we see from her interview with Katie Couric that they did so with good reason. She is confident. That's about it in terms of readiness to be vice president.

With...

On my way home from work every day for years, I passed by a house bearing a huge POW flag. Those people had not forgotten. They had not simply moved on. I was thinking of them today when I read Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg's article, "McCain and...

From Karl Rove's criticism of McCain's attack ads as going "a step too far," it would be easy to conclude that even the most devious among us has a point at which his moral compass kicks in. But that would be a mistake. Karl Rove wasn't annoyed with McCain...

With all this talk about Sarah Palin redefining feminism and people who don't support her candidacy being sexist, I think we could use a little clarification.

Women's progress at work and in government is critically important. We are not, after all, living in the Dark Ages. But, and this...

After the 1995 release of my first trade book, They Don't Get It Do They?, I was interviewed on Good Morning America by Charlie Gibson and Nancy Snyderman. Sitting in the green room I heard Charlie introduce the segment. He said, "I'll bet this is once again a book saying...

Last week the Democrats showed how wonderful a convention can be. It was superbly organized and came together in magical ways. When Hurricane Gustav was off the coast of Louisiana delaying the Republican National Convention on Monday, it seemed they could use the time to find ways...

I was sitting with my husband this morning and he suddenly wants to know what I've been doing with my life. Why am I not considering a bid for Secretary of State? The Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court and now Sarah Palin being picked as McCain's...

They built it and indeed they came in the tens of thousands. It would not have been possible without the pain that preceded what has to have been the most impressive, warmest, most hopeful and inspiring Democratic Convention any of us can remember.

Last November I

We were witnesses last night to exemplary grit and class. Hillary Clinton put the past behind her and threw her full support to Barack Obama.

After putting 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, as Michelle Obama reminded us in her impressive speech, and...

Among our weak points as Americans is a tendency to believe major issues are "done and dusted" long before we have even scratched the surface of their resolution. The French, for example, recognize more than we "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" (the more things change, the more...

It isn't as if women don't have enough stereotypes to deal with but along comes Nancy Pelosi to tell those who supported Hillary Clinton's nomination that they shouldn't act like poor sports, taking their marbles and going home, if Hillary Clinton isn't chosen by Barack Obama to be his...

It would be funny if it weren't so damn frustrating to watch corporate owned media cabal commentators who call themselves journalists compete to be the voices of up-from-nothing real Americans -- moreso than those whose lives they so cavalierly harm each day with vile attacks and irresponsible reporting.

Aren't you...

Many people, especially in politics, think the bad things that happened to the other guy (gal) aren't going to happen to them. "That was different," they reason. "That was then and this is now."

Well, politics is, as Michelle Obama has observed, "a game and a sport." And while there...

I'd just walked in from one of those terribly long days, put my feet up to listen to more bias, more hatred on television only to have my heart moved by Maya Angelou. Her intelligence, beauty, depth and fondness for both Clinton and Obama gave me the hope about which...

Hillary Clinton supporters are facing the prospect of having to decide whether to vote for Barack Obama, vote for John McCain or not vote at all. They're about to be wooed like never before -- a stark contrast to what they experienced during the nomination process from the media and...

There are far worse things going on in the world than Barack Obama referring to a reporter as "sweetie." And since he does so well with apologies, I'm beginning to wonder, anyway, whether he is offending in order to benefit from subsequently being contrite.

In my persuasion classes...

Those who say Hillary Clinton won't accept the Democratic Party vice presidential nomination are assuming that she wants all or nothing. The same can be said of those believing Obama would turn down VP.

What if we look at both of them as politicians and leaders who care more about...