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With high amplification from social media, every surrogate can fall for the lure of self-importance, misspeaking for their candidate -- sometimes with dire consequences.
As the son of a woman who worked while raising me and the grandson of two more women who worked, I am shocked by how this conversation has taken such an anti-working women turn.
President Obama spoke out and did his part. Now we must demand a national conversation about the war of words and its impact on women and girls. It's not the president's responsibility to police the airwaves -- that's our job.
Impassive, unflappable, a survivor -- these are now the key qualifications for winning a presidential nomination. After seven months of grueling, v...
By giving a rousing "State of the Climate Address," Obama would draw a line in the sand between reason and recklessness, a line between concerned mothers and the Koch brothers.
In this interview, Axelrod puts Solyndra in context and explains why clean energy policy is important to the future of the U.S. economy and its job market.
The 2012 presidential campaign will be a $2 billion slugfest. With his strategy of morphing Mitt Romney into Gordon Gekko, David Axelrod hopes to convince voters that President Obama, not a former corporate raider, remains the best hope for workers, unions and the middle class.
While the President's failings in the first term have been well chronicled, what are the chances for a different, more successful second term in the White House?
Like the original "Kingmaker" of the 15th century's War of the Roses, who 'made' Richard III, Valerie Jarrett plays the same role to Barack Hussein Obama.
Halperin's suspension is definitely turning into a juicy summer sidebar with a steady stream of commentary running across the internet on the latest political pundit to put his foot in his mouth.
When the foreclosure fraud scandal hits the front pages again, and threatens to hurt powerful financial institutions -- rather than just the powerless -- will the Wall Street-White House syndicate keep pushing the paperwork canard?
While it's not clear that Barack Obama is doomed to be a one-term President, he does not have the Bill Clinton gift for translating big national problems into words the average voter can understand.
The middle would be much happier if we'd stop negotiating and start making their lives better. But in absence of a coherent plan by a unified government, their vote just seems like flailing.
In a move that took many political observers by surprise, the Democratic National Committee decided today to move its 2012 nominating convention to the recently collapsed Minneapolis Metrodome.
Only 6 percent of Americans think Congress should concentrate on reducing the deficit. 56 percent want it to focus on creating jobs. Guess which set of policies is the center of attention in Washington right now?
The Bush tax cuts added trillions of dollars to the deficit, which inside-the-beltway pundits now want to pay for by cutting the social safety net on middle class and poor Americans.
