2008 Election

Obama Takes His White House Campaign To The Battlefields

Observer On Sunday | Jason Burke | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, arrived in Afghanistan yesterday, amid tight security on the first leg of his high-profile tou...

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Meet The Seven Indispensable Surrogates This Campaign Cycle

Politico | Amie Parnes | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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A good surrogate is hard to find. Just recall Bill Clinton's "fairy tale," Samantha Power's "monster" and Phil Gramm's "nation of whiners." Every fe...

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Al Gore On Crackpot Hair-Of-The-Dog Solutions

The Uptake | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

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The Uptake

"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."

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Whining Americans Choose Caviar Health Care

Lester Feder | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

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Lester Feder

Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."

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It's Time For America To Get Smart About Energy

Debbie Cook | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

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Debbie Cook

More people are now moving past the denial stage and are beginning to consider intelligent responses to the env=ergy problems we will face in the coming decades.

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Friday Talking Points [39] -- Republican Elitism Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...

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Obama's Foreign Trip: Yes, He Should

John Ridley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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John Ridley

The Right can't have it both ways on this one; they can't hector Obama about not traveling the world, then carp when he does. They certainly can't refer to a politician's travels as being political. That label is as obvious as it is inaccurate.

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Can America Afford a McCain First Term?

Daniel Burrell | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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Daniel Burrell

If managing a presidential campaign is any indication of how these candidates will perform day one in the White House, it is McCain's campaign, not Obama's that should be worrying American voters.

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The McCain-Bush Relationship: It's Complicated

Time | James Carney | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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It was in Portsmouth, Ohio, the other day when a supporter neatly summed up the obstacle lying between John McCain and the White House. "When," the yo...

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Not Just Hope and Change, But Justice Too

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Max and the Marginalized

We're crossing our fingers that Obama's effort to bring the country together won't stop him from bringing to justice those who have broken a host of laws in tearing it apart.

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Management Problems Wherever You Look

Bob Franken | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Bob Franken

The "More of the Same with John McCain" campaign continues its uphill ride on the Straight Talk Express. McCain's best hope is is that the Democrats will find some ridiculous way to lose this election.

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Why is McCain Close?

Bob Burnett | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Bob Burnett

Despite John McCain's maladroit campaign, his association with an unpopular president, and his general ineptness as a candidate, the race will be disturbingly close.

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Few House GOP Members Donating To McCain Campaign

The Hill | Alexander Bolton and Michael O’Brien | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Few House Republicans have contributed to Sen. John McCain since he clinched the Republican nomination at the end of February. McCain, Arizona's seni...

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McCain Surrogate Carly Fiorina Meets With Disaffected HIllary Clinton Supporters

Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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The McCain campaign dispatched its top female surrogate Tuesday to meet with about 25 disaffected supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton in Westchester, N...

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War Is Over (If Maliki Wants It)

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Without a microscopic examination of the seething cauldron of Iraqi partisan politics, it's safe to say that Maliki knows which way the wind is blowing. The Iraqi people want to know -- "when is the U.S. leaving?"

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Dowd: More Big Macs for Barack

John McQuaid | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

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John McQuaid

Even on its own terms -- as an attempted insight into Obama's alleged finickiness or his supposed distance from the Applebee's set -- Maureen Dowd's obsession with Obama and food doesn't make sense.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Are Obama And McCain Ebbing Or Flowing?

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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About a week ago, Republican media specialist Alex Castellanos asked pollster Scott Rasmussen to add a question to one of his surveys: If the November...

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Obama Refines The American Dream

Simon Woods | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Simon Woods

In the age of reality TV, there is a danger that the paradigms of pop culture have become the model of the American Dream for a generation of young people. Barack Obama is addressing that danger.

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Nostalgia For Days Of Impeachment

Catherine Specter | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Catherine Specter

I miss Bill Clinton. It was so much more fun to debate the ridiculousness of his impeachment than to walk on eggshells around subjects as we do today.

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2008: Democratic Sweep or A Near Miss?

Harold L. Wilensky | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Harold L. Wilensky

Democratic voting myths can turn a potential Democratic sweep this November into a near miss if Barack Obama fails to grasp the meaning and distribution of the votes for Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.

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Republicans No Longer Have Lock On Idaho

WS | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Bill Sali is defying the political odds by making Idaho's first-district congressional race competitive. That isn't good for Mr. Sali: He is the incum...

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Vets for Freedom Says Thousands Of Donors -- We Count Five

Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Dave Johnson and James Boyce

We're betting this 527 group is nothing more than a conduit for one or two very large donations intended to get around election law to the benefit of candidate McCain.

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Obama Tells NAACP Blacks Must Take Responsibility

AP | GLEN JOHNSON and DAN SEWELL | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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CINCINNATI — Democrat Barack Obama received a prideful welcome from the annual NAACP convention Monday night, but in a stirring speech to the na...

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Overseas Obama Fans Take To Bridges To Show Their Support

McClatchy Newspapers | Julie Sell | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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From Australia to South Africa, from the Bosporus to northern France, American fans of Barack Obama have been staging rallies abroad at world-famous b...

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Obama Frames Iraq Right, Bush And McCain Slow To React

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

McCain's going to have to come up with some new spin to explain why Obama and Maliki are now singing from the same songbook on timetables for withdrawal.

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