2008 Election

I sometimes wonder if the "reporters" covering the presidential candidates out on the campaign trail ever bother to read the front page of the newspapers, or whether they just flip to the campaign he-said/she-said stories about whatever trivial issue is being exploited in the press that day. Because time and...

As commentators vie to predict the impact of Obama's March 18, 2008, "race speech" on his candidacy, it's easy to fixate on what it tells us about Obama the person -- his steady courage, his nuanced thinking, his mastery of imagery and storytelling. All are important attributes to...

You have more delegates, much more money, you're John McCain to her Mike Huckabee.

So why act as if she's on equal footing?

Because the Clintons are acting as if they are and the Obama camp is letting them. Her floating the idea of him working for her...

I have no idea who Roger Waters is supporting in this thing (and I hasten to note that this video was created without his permission), but when I heard Senator Obama's historic Philadelphia address last week,...

Accused in recent days of embellishing her story of a brush with sniper fire in Bosnia, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today said "don't be fooled" by photos showing her being greeted at the airport by a pony-tailed 8-year-old Bosnian girl with a bouquet of flowers.

"That was no little...

For many years, the United States has been suffering from political nihilism -- disbelief in its institutions.

I have seen political nihilism in various countries around the world. It manifests itself as a form of futility, the feeling that one cannot recover from what is ailing the people.

Two common...

Barack Obama made, perhaps, one of his smartest moves of the campaign. After a brutal week last week, he took a little vacation, took some time on the beach. He got out of Dodge, so to speak, escaping the political shootout for a few days.

Hillary Clinton stayed behind, which...

Imagine a presidential candidate who believed that God wanted him to run for president because American needed him. Picture a secretive group of Washington insiders who meet quietly to mix religion, class and politics and who believe in an elite group of people divinely ordained to run the country and...

The handwriting is on the wall. It is virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to overcome Barack Obama's insurmountable lead in pledged delegates.

The party's superdelegates are faced with only one choice. They must decide whether to ratify the outcome of the primaries and support the candidate with the most pledged...

by Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Danny Glover

This call has been drafted for immediate circulation, discussion, and action.

All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country. We...

David Brooks says it best in today's New York Times: Hillary's "Audacity of Hopelessness."

Does anyone even remember how exciting and fun American politics seemed just a short time ago? The Republicans were in a nose dive facing a field of weak candidates none of them liked, while the Democrats...

To follow along with James Carville's Biblical imagery, Barack Obama has parted the Presidential Red Sea to lead even principled Republican conservatives to the Obama Land of unifying and transforming America. In the March 24th issue of The American Conservative, Andrew J. Bacevich writes a clear and persuasive argument for...

Of all the ideas floating around among Democrats seeking to avoid a summer-long meltdown, the early June superdelegate "mini-convention" seems to be the most fair, reasonable and obtainable solution on the table.

The idea is to have superdelegates meet right after the primaries conclude and settle this feud between Barack...

Here's a note that came in on my blog from "Anonymous" today, and my response.

Anonymous: I disagree with your assessment of this election. I think you are really diminishing how much of a threat Hillary is to the male power structure in America. I have never seen the media...

Insiders tell me that Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Howard Dean has been meeting with Latino DNC members asking them to make a call for Democratic unity to Latino voters. Dean must be concerned that a significant portion of the Latino Democratic vote, which favors Clinton over Obama by a...

If you've not seen it already, I invite you all to go to YouTube and watch the video labelled "Dick Cheney SO." With all the inevitable political jabbering and hype going on in this political...

One of the more enduring myths in Washington is that Americans live their lives on a left-right ideological spectrum. We are all little liberals or little conservatives. Thus, the New York Times ponders how the "liberal" Barack Obama can fashion a governing coalition when conventional wisdom continues...

When you see John McCain "fact finding" his way through the world on the tax-payer's dollar with smiley face Joe Lieberman forever at his side, their all-out effort to make McCain appear presidential, I can't help but think of Howdy Doody, that goofy marionette of early TV days and his...