Where's the high-minded rhetoric now from Mr. "things are going to be different," "I'm above the fray" Obama?

The New York Times reports Senator Obama bought about $100,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.

Obama's tortured explanation

I understand that politicians flip flop. They change positions and pander for votes and money. I've worked for Democrats and Republicans and confess to nuancing an issue or two in my day. But Rudy Giuliani's crass pandering of my bodily integrity is not nuancing.

The New York Times' headline

Who does he think he is? We must ask this question, because it's the kind of question that would be asked if a 45-year-old female political neophyte declared, as Barack Obama did Saturday, that she was a candidate for the U.S. presidency. In fact, the public wouldn't get the chance...

Apparently Sen. Barack Obama is now the go-to man on universal health care. The male bloggers love his speech calling for universal health care and one of them commented on one of my recent posts that Sen. Hillary Clinton wasn't progressive enough on health care but "Obama has called for...

The Italians are all a twitter over a sex scandal involving former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The headline in yesterday's New York Times reads: "Berlusconi Flirts. Wife's Fed Up."

The article starts out with the old "men are scoundrels" theme, with thepoor put-upon wife finally saying "enough."...

Two fascinating things happened over the weekend. Sen. Clinton offered a stirring gambit at an Iowan Town Hall proving herself to be a gifted communicator. And Rudy Giuliani gave an incoherent and rambling speech in New Hampshire that was harder to watch than Warren Beatty's aimless Golden Globes delivery and...

I'm detecting an undercurrent in the media of fear. It's a fear of Sen. Hillary Clinton's formidable fundraising capabilities. Last week, the senator declined to opt into public financing, which leaves her campaign free to spend the kind of money it takes to win.

Money is power and people get...