Obama Debate

There was animated scribbling, petulant sneers, verbal scuffles, and name calling. Though the same thing could be said of, say, a junior high school homeroom class, tonight I am referring to the most recent of Republican debates.

In 2000, Barack Obama, then a state senator, sat down with his two Democratic opponents in a race for the 1st Congressional District in Illinois and d...

The winners of Tuesday night's GOP debate: Herman Cain and President Obama. With the devastating accuracy of a CIA drone, the Republican candidates zeroed in on their own party's chances with exchanges that played right into Democrats' hands on a series of issues, from immigration to taxes. And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate. In this environment, Rick Santorum sounded almost mild and reasonable, which gives you an idea of what kind of a night it was.

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President Obama is not planning to increase (or, for that matter, decrease) his involvement in the health care debate even as legislation enters a piv...

It's been a pattern ever since the governor of Alaska was offered the vice presidential slot: the closer we get to Halloween, McCain shows himself to be more and more frightfully unprepared.

Newsweek obtained some compelling audio: Obama was something unusual in a politician: genuinely self-aware. In late May 2007, he had stumbled through...

Newsweek has released highlights of its Special Election Project, which allowed reporters to gather behind-the-scenes information on the presidential ...

New polling from ABC News and The Washington Post reveals just how big Barack Obama's victory in the collective debates really was. The survey finds ...

Last night, John McCain told us that Governor Palin "knows more about Autism than any other American I know." Perhaps he should get out more.

Barack Obama is out with the first post-debate campaign ad. He goes directly after what was perceived to be one of John McCain's best lines from Wedne...

McCain had already convinced most Americans he's not capable of fixing the economy, but last night he convinced them that... they don't like him, either.

The clear winner of Wednesday's debate, Joe the plumber, focused a national debate on the wisdom and fairness of progressive taxation.

I'd still like to like John McCain, especially since I once did - to some degree anyway. But with every day on this marathon, in every speech, and every debate, I'm less motivated to do so.

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Wow, I never thought a presidential discussion would get me thinking so much about my toilet.

For McCain, the urgent need tonight was not for McCarthyism on Ayers or ACORN, but for sounding authoritative on the economy -- a daunting objective for someone who said he doesn't know much about economics.

If John McCain wants us to think he's not the same as George Bush, perhaps he should stop embracing Bush's policies.

John McCain didn't just fail to get the game-changer he needed -- he was trounced in this third and final debate, if the instant post-debate polling p...

Barack Obama never delivered a knockout punch during the final presidential debate, but it did not matter. Obama won a T.K.O.

While Obama came across like a breathless statesman, McCain came off incendiary, competitive, and humorless making it hard to accept his premise that he will use the military option as a last resort.