Ramesh Ponnuru, author of the hilariously titled The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life, has purged once more on the pages of the Washington Post. His target: Michelle Obama. In justifying the right wing attacks on her, he writes, "Her combination...

The personable, shirt-sleeved, loose-limbed fellow has morphed into the dark-suited, flag-lapel pinned polibot. In style and emphasis, Barack Obama has shifted to a less colorful (no pun intended) version of the woman he defeated for the Democratic nomination. Politically, it's probably necessary. To reassure Americans that he is neither Muslim...

As someone who wrote "Getting Whitey: Michelle Obama's Secret Negro Agenda" satirizing the right's twisted vision of the aspiring black first couple, I understand what New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt was trying to accomplish with his now-notorious cover art. However, he did it poorly, and in doing so, he...

A CNN piece called "Obama says he's been 'very consistent' on Iraq," proves a classic of the "he said/she said" journalism of marketing and perception. It also--again--proves that Democrats don't know how to play that game.

The CNN story reports that on his campaign plane, Obama leveled accusations...

Washington Post columnist David Broder donned his rubber gloves and plucked from his inbox a report from the right wing Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The organization fears that "America's national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness." Broder, on the other hand, sees no...

On the topic of patriotism, Barack Obama wrote the following for Time magazine:

"When I was a child, I lived overseas for a time with my mother. And one of my earliest memories is of her reading to me the first lines of the Declaration of Independence, explaining how its...

As he morphs from St. Obama of the Primaries to Village Barack of the General, Obama is quickly abandoning the liberal savior guise that got him from point A to point B. He went before AIPAC and to out Likud the Likudniks to the point where he had to backtrack...

Democrats have been accused of antipathy toward religion, but that is not the case. Democrats simply reacted rationally to the stridency, intolerance, and undisguised hatred that often marked the Republican Religious Right.

With news that an evangelical conservative Stephen Mansfield, author of "The Faith of George Bush, will write a...

There is a rumor circulating among the right wing tin hat set that a videotape exists of Michelle Obama saying derogatory things about white people. Newsflash: Train a camera on just about any black person long enough and you'll get footage of him/her saying something derogatory about white people. You...

Barack Obama tried to pander the other day. Suffering attacks on his policies toward Israel, he went before AIPAC to reinforce his commitment to our Middle East ally. In doing so, he chose the old politics. He tried to out neo-con a neo-con and declared that Jerusalem should be the...

With the nomination in-hand, a party to unite, a war hero to defeat, and a country to convince...

"A night like tonight was inevitable. One way or another, one candidate or the other, a night would come during this election season when the Democratic party would make history....

National politics is like magic. It makes rules--and people--disappear. It can turn truth into lies and vice versa. But as any literate teen can tell us, magic has a dark side--one that turns deadly. Yet supposedly adult voters continue to venerate politicians. We anoint them Heroes or Everymen or Saviors...

Imagine the scene at the Democratic National Convention. A triumphant Barack Obama stands onstage. To his left stands John Kerry, to his right Al Gore. Next to Gore stands Jimmy Carter. Ted Kennedy stands next to John Kerry.

There is a lot of hope for an Obama-fueled "new Democratic...

The Kennedy news reminded me of his extraordinary performance as keynote speaker at the 1980 Democratic convention. If my memory serves, it prompted no less a seen-it-all pro than Walter Cronkite to proclaim it, at the very least, the best speech Kennedy had ever made.

Kennedy had challenged sitting...

"... Colin Powell... told Ted Koppel in 1993 that the real issue with gays in the military was that 'we have to shower together." Uh-huh. Mr. Koppel gave General Powell a pass by not asking the obvious question: 'So which is it, General: Are you afraid of them or are...

The Washington Post reported Monday on young Obama volunteers encountering (gasp) racism as they stump for their favorite. The article states:

"For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility...

Dear Hillary,

Over the past 15 years, I have alternately admired, loathed and merely tolerated your actions. But seeking political power back in the early 90s, you and Bill were the real deal. You both sincerely believed that you could change this country for the better, and you went to...

He'll be the first black major party candidate for President, and the narrative is already in play: He's doomed by his inability to seamlessly engage those whom Beltway Insiders behind closed doors might refer to as "white trash." Unfortunately, I think they project. It's themselves to whom he seems out...

Yesterday, without notice, and without self-congratulatory fanfare, thousands of dockworkers at all 29 West Coast ports walked off the job to protest the Iraq war. According to the LA Times, they "effectively shut down operations at the busy complexes."

There's been a lot of justified outrage about...

If Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his former disciple, Barack Obama were white, this would not be a story. Wright would not have gained the attention he did. He would not have been seduced to take his 15 minutes at Obama's expense. CNN would not have become the Jeremiah Wright show....