In a time and place of his choosing, Barack Obama should use the Article II, Section 2 recess appointment alternative.
AP | Posted 08.01.2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP/The Huffington Post) -- U.S. Sen. David Vitter says he will release his hold on Dan Ashe, the president's nominee to head the U.S. Fis...
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011
By replacing Souter with Sotomayor Obama keeps the balance of the court exactly the same, but he adds some "color" and another "female" voice to the Court's balance.
CBN | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe the Obama administration should have nominated George Hamilton instead of David F. Hamilton. The hollywood actor may have an easier time at conf...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1961, Robert F. Kennedy predicted that the country could elect a black president in the next 40 years. That's how fast race relations were changing...
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011
This offensive German headline is a warning to us here in the US. The bigots will exploit every slimy racist undercurrent in a desperate effort to keep Obama out of the White House.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 05.25.2011
I love Barack's his ideas about a new politics of hope -- I attended MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. But I worry that Obama is more Harvard law than Chicago street fighter.
Jonathan Alter | Posted 05.25.2011
Journalists, historians and bloggers will be talking for years about what happened. In such a close race, the winner did plenty of things wrong, and the loser did a lot right.
Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011
Hillary's unsurprising lack of grace last night reveals more than she may realize, and we can only hope that she can find some humility and plain old patriotism for something larger than herself.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011
If Hillary really wanted to be on the ticket, she wouldn't have engaged in this infuriating slash-burn-point-clap strategy in the first place -- which continued through her Tuesday night speech.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Obama's nomination confirms Dr. King's observation that "the moral arc of the universe" is long, but bends toward freedom and justice for all.
Joe Vogel | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's historic night will always be partially shadowed by a woman with an ego too large to do what every other candidate in both parties, including Mike Huckabee, understood was appropriate.
Matthew Dowd | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a race that Clinton could have won and should have won, and came very close. The following is my attempt at explaining what happened.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is quietly planning to take over the Democratic National Committee and assemble a multistate team for the general elec...
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower agai...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Concerned about appearing presumptuous or antagonistic towards Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama will not declare victory in the Democratic nominat...
NY Times | Jim Rutenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The contest with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton not quite over and the one with Senator John McCain not quite under way, Senator Barack Obama is float...
Fox News | Posted 05.25.2011
National polling firm Rasmussen Reports announced on Friday that it will stop polling people about the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Cl...
NY Times | PATRICK HEALY, JEFF ZELENY | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture on Wednesday about continuing her presidential bid despite waning support from Democr...
Victor Williams | Posted 12.28.2011