2008 Democratic Primary

The presence of my brown skin parents in the white working class voter demographic indicates how vexing it must be for pundits trying to figure out this bloc of voters.

The Obama folks need to be very focused on gearing up their operation now. If the primary team needs vacations, fine, put people you trust into planning mode. This needs to happen now.

Knowing when to cut bait, when to accept defeat, when to change direction -- those are the characteristics of a strong leader. The super-duper delegates will be exercising that leadership.

Good ministers stir people up, challenge their congregants' assumptions, make people uncomfortable. They should serve, in the language of the church, a prophetic role that speaks truth to power.

I'm talking about how many people I know, many superdelegates among them, who are scared to publicly support Obama because of the Clintons' well-known penchant for vengeance.

This race is over and the cheap shots at this point aren't helping anyone but John McCain. The problem isn't hitting Obama; the problem is hitting Obama after the bell.

Because of my personal ties to the Clintons, this was one of the toughest decisions I have ever made. But every day that goes by makes me more convinced that it was the right thing to do.

The constant attacks at times appeared to throw the Obama campaign slightly off-kilter; but, more than that, they opened up and deepened some fissures within the Democratic Party itself.

A Clinton-Obama ticket would appeal to many supporters of both candidates: Most Clinton supporters like Obama and believe he could make a good president, but just not yet.

This is no time for timid half measures, for accommodation of the interests of the very wealthy. This is a job for the ruthless trial attorney who's neither afraid nor ashamed to go for the jugular.

For reasons hard to understand, no one has ever asked Hillary just what it was she actually did behind the scenes at the White House.

Only two primaries so far and we already see it -- each day brings news of a more intense rivalry that could easily create permanent bad blood between the two candidates and their supporters.

If Iran's Revolutionary Guard is indeed a terrorist organization, as Hillary's vote says, doesn't the War on Terror compel us to fight it with everything we have?

In an act of political jiu-jitsu, Obama turned Clinton's words about experience from 1992 into a Wayback Machine endorsement of his own 2008 quest.

Will you chuckle when the Shiites in Saudi Arabia and the other oil states rise up and destabilize our allies in the Persian Gulf? This crisis is real and it's time to take it seriously before it's too late.