According to The New York Times, it was two weeks ago that the Pentagon gave Barack Obama the green light to land in Ramstein, Germany, this morning, where he was to visit wounded American soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. For all intents and purposes, the Pentagon red-lighted the...

Phil Gramm, the once chief economic adviser and close friend of McCain, one he considers his economic guru, comes from the mindset many Republicans share. That being, Government should not bail out the consumer during market adjustments such as the housing market downturn, that is, until privately traded companies such...

For anyone who hasn't surfed over yet, PrezVid has a great three-part line up of videos, a series of what what you could call "the American Freedom Speeches in Berlin," featuring Obama, JFK and Reagan. The post also links to the full transcript of Obama's speech.

Grainy...

Representatives for many of the citizen groups planning events during the Democratic National Convention met together in Denver last Sunday morning, July 20, with the dual purpose of sharing information about their plans and trying to heal a rift among the activists.

The so called consulta fell short of being...

Shouldn't some significant portion of the massive bailout taxpayers are handing the incompetent company officials who recklessly got us in this mortgage mess be used instead to hire more regulators to insure we don't keeping throwing Treasury money away like this every few years? Shouldn't a few of those who...

On November 4, 2008 I, along with a predicted record number of young voters, will flock to my local polling place to cast my vote for the next president of the United States. This alone should be enough to make each of the candidates want to do all that they...

While Barack Obama's very public tour to Europe and the Middle East this week occupies the media's spotlight, there's a new storm brewing around a billion dollar private foreign policy industry -- which includes thousands of lobbyists conducting trade and military policy via cash and access. Chuck Schumer, joined by...

The presidential candidacy of Barack Obama is significant, certainly, from a historical perspective: a prominent mixed-race candidate in a polyglot country that prides itself on its melting-pot self image, while talking loudly over its racist bass chords. That it took so long is the real head-shaker. TV's 24 had to...

As U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama wrapped up a tour of Israel and Palestine, newspaper headlines all over the world were fixated on the Senator's attention to Israel and the lack of attention he paid to Palestine's struggle.

One headline in particular, from Israel's Haaretz, aptly summed up...

In a town hall meeting this past Tuesday in New Hampshire, McCain repeated a problematic gaffe, referring to the Czech Republic again as "Czechoslovakia." The frustration McCain is beginning to feel with misspeaking the name of the country came across in New Hampshire, the candidate veering from his talking points...

As I traveled through the Southwest this past week, I aimed to examine what types of inspiration young people draw from when they think about politics. I came across two towns only 263 miles apart but seemingly from different eras. In Gallup, New Mexico, I talked with a number of...

The international media was all atwitter about Barack Obama's speech in Berlin. What will he say? Will there be a large turnout? Will Obama attempt a JFK-esque statement auf Deutsch? Would he assume too much by doing so?

When it came to Obama's decision to use or not use the...

Mayhill Fowler wrote yesterday about the

blue postcards advertising Barack Obama's appearance tomorrow at the Siegessaule....Yesterday and today volunteers from Americans Abroad for Obama, as well as college students...have been plying Berliners and tourists with these rather bizarre cards -- the artwork reminiscent of both German Expressionism and Soviet...

Ramesh Ponnuru, author of the hilariously titled The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life, has purged once more on the pages of the Washington Post. His target: Michelle Obama. In justifying the right wing attacks on her, he writes, "Her combination...

On the same morning that Ford posted an $8.7 billion loss, today's Quinnipiac polls shows a McCain resurgence in several key battleground states, particularly Michigan. The gains are not surprising. As Ford and GM continue their reported flirtation with bankruptcy, now more than ever, Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm is taking...

Watergy.

No, it's not the newest vitamin-enhanced thirst quencher to hit store shelves. It's the growing crunch between the country's water shortages and booming energy demand.

Watergy -- the energy-water nexus as the experts call it -- is not necessarily a new phenomenon. Producing energy has always used water just...

9:00 PM, BERLIN, 24 July 2008

Back at the Adlon and pondering the speech. Live blogging, you only capture a moment. I'll be thinking about Obama's introduction of himself to the Old World for a long time. Basically, he gave the speech that many of us Americans knew he would...

This post is published on Why Tuesday? as well as OffTheBus.

This month we've spent time with a member of Congress trying to move voting to the Weekend, and we've chatted with the Speaker of the House, who indicated she would support such legislation.

Last...

Sloppy. Desperate. Indecent.

Senator McCain, that is how your campaign has been described. It's time to attack. Allow me, in my infinite charm, to get your blood up.

Goddamnit solider!

I expect these type of undisciplined campaign shenanigans by some pudgy, no neck, shit-eating...