Michael Carmichael

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Michael Carmichael is a political consultant, historian, author and broadcaster. In 2003, he founded The Planetary Movement Limited, a global public affairs organization based in the United Kingdom. He has appeared as a public affairs expert on the BBC's Today Program, Hardtalk, PM, as well as numerous appearances on ITN, NPR and many European broadcasts examining politics and culture. He can be reached through his website: www.planetarymovement.org.

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Obama Forces Flip-Flops to Paralyze McCain

Posted July 23, 2008 | 06:25 PM (EST)


With a deft series of domestic political moves followed by vigorous international maneuvers, Barack Obama triggered a diplomatic revolution and forced flip-flops on one of his main rivals -- incumbent President George W. Bush -- that have paralyzed the campaign of Senator John McCain.

For many months, Obama called for...

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Reeling From Polls -- Obama Strikes Back

83 Comments | Posted July 15, 2008 | 06:41 PM (EST)


Reeling from a series of polls revealing a rapid slide in his popularity, Barack Obama struck back the way he knows best -- a stunning speech on the urgent need for a new course in US foreign policy.

Over the past month, major polling organizations have published the results of...

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Bush Calls Mugabe "Undemocratic"

9 Comments | Posted June 29, 2008 | 03:08 PM (EST)


As a former advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, I am compelled to offer the following observations on the recent attempt by President George W. Bush to appear less despotic than the reviled president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

In the midst of the sham election rigged to give Robert Mugabe the impression...

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Obama's Pivot

3 Comments | Posted June 23, 2008 | 02:30 PM (EST)


In the closing minutes of his epic battle with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama unveiled a brilliant new tactic: he pivoted and ran against John McCain. Obama's focus on McCain rather than his primary opponent gave him presidential stature that led to the collapse of Clinton's last vestiges of political support....

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Hillary Clinton's Last Hurrah

10 Comments | Posted June 4, 2008 | 10:46 AM (EST)


With the arrival of Barack Obama, an old era ends, and a new era begins -- the sixth political realignment in US history. Modeled on Beowulf, Obama emerges as a battle-tested hero. Beowulf slew a monster and its mother. Obama overwhelmed Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president in...

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The Ticket That Imploded

Posted May 15, 2008 | 05:24 PM (EST)


The naked truth about the soft machine of the American body politic is that we are incessantly manipulated by invisible forces orchestrated by a conspiracy of strategists with vastly superior intelligences.

In recent months, weeks and days the American people have been programmed by the MSM to anticipate a...

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The Firewall: Obama Wins NC primary

Posted May 6, 2008 | 10:57 AM (EST)


During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.

The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened...

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Rush Limbaugh Claims Victory in Pennsylvania

Posted April 25, 2008 | 04:47 PM (EST)


While the title might sound odd, Limbaugh's insatiable ego will not allow him to resist tarnishing Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions with a strong dose of reality -- as well as his confession to his personal involvement in corrupting the presidential election.

The backstory is riveting. In March, Limbaugh launched...

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The Political Titanic

Posted April 17, 2008 | 01:17 AM (EST)


Less than two weeks ago, a scandal hit the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clinton campaign's Chief Strategist, Mark Penn, was exposed in a searing conflict of interest between his position in the presidential campaign and his other job: CEO of the massive multinational PR giant, Burson...

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