2008 Presidential Election

Could Michelle Obama Be the First Woman President in 2020?

Mario Almonte | Posted 04.09.2012

Mario Almonte

Nothing in Michelle's current behavior suggests any inclination to continue in politics after her husband's departure from the Oval Office. That could change after Barack's re-election, when she no longer has to worry about affecting her husband's political career.

Obama Bus Tour To Stop In Illinois

Posted 10.10.2011

President Obama's bus tour through the Midwest next week will hit southern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa and western Illinois--all states he carried in...

Thank You, Senator Kennedy

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jack Schimmelman

Today as we swim through the flotsam and murk squirted from octopi embodied by the tortured rhetoric of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, et al.; people who tr...

Sowing the Seeds of Race, Reaping the Whirlwind of Racism

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Reese Schonfeld

The Obama Administration seems to have no overall strategy in dealing with racial issues at a time when accusations of racism flow from both sides of the political aisle.

How to Engage Youth in a Post-Obama Presidential Campaign World

HeathCliff Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011

HeathCliff Rothman

The What's Your Issue Film Competition is asking young social innovators to make a three-minute video explaining their idea for a project that would address a current national problem.

The Secret Superdelegate War Revealed

Erik Ose | Posted 05.25.2011

Erik Ose

It was one year ago today that Hillary Clinton announced plans to suspend her campaign for the Democratic nomination, and urged her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama.

Obama: Averse to Leadership and a Pretty Bad Politician on Top of That

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011

Leonce Gaiter

It's time for the verdict. Obama ran a great campaign, but he is no leader, and he's an abominable politician.

Obama Online -- Moving From Campaigning to Governing (VIDEO)

Katie Stoynoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Stoynoff

While my belief in the potential of the Obama administration is strong, the connection I felt during the campaign has faded. The disconnection I feel comes from the Obama administration's struggle to move from campaign mode to governing mode.

Game Change -- Sexism at its Worst

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Joanne Bamberger

If this is where we are in 2010 when it comes to permissible portrayals of women, I may have to live to be 237 before we're treated with even a modicum of respect.

Obama Year One: United by Change, Divided by Reform

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeffrey Feldman

If Obama fails to grasp soon why his idea of reform has alienated key parts of his base -- and if he fails to do something to bridge that divide -- the result could be a full scale mutiny by 2010.

Obama's Nobel Prize Is Really a Tribute to American Voters

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Creamer

This award celebrates the fact that American voters chose a President committed to progressive values, instead of pre-emptive war and the Neo-Con theories of unilateral action.

Obama's Off To A Very Good Start

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

William Bradley

I think Obama's off to a very good start. But let's not clear space on Mount Rushmore yet. Just as I didn't think he deserved the Nobel, I don't think that Obama's very good start equates to a great presidency.

Obama, the Birthers, and American National Identity

Joseph Lowndes | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph Lowndes

Birthright can an effective articulation of resistance to Obama precisely because it joins an unspoken racial claim about national belonging to the Constitutional requirement of natural born citizenship for the office.

Huckabee's Muzzle Control Problem

The Swamp | Jim Tankersley | Posted 05.25.2011

Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter ask...

New Documents Indicate That Bush Didn't Show Up to Presidency

Tom McCaffrey | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom McCaffrey

During the Vietnam War George W. Bush was handed a cushy assignment in the Texas National Guard thanks to his powerful connections. This ensured that ...

The Green Campaign

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Hermene Hartman

It is not about the old man and the new kid. It is not about gender politics. The campaign has gone green. It is now about who can turn this economy around.

Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" Against the Facts

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011

Karl Frisch

Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.

Worst Pundit In America: Dick Morris (In A Landslide)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Nickolas

Rarely did a week go by during the general election that Morris predicted the 180-degree opposite of what would eventually transpire. It was astounding for its consistency.

An Entirely Different Inauguration Day

Erik Ose | Posted 05.25.2011

Erik Ose

Eight years ago, the country was experiencing an entirely different sort of Inauguration Day. On January 20, 2001, people were outraged.

Heritage Foundation: Torturing Facts, Sacrificing the Poor

Pete Aaltman | Posted 05.25.2011

Pete Aaltman

The Heritage Foundation celebrated a study that concludes that "higher temperatures reduce agricultural output in poor countries" and "lead to reductions in industrial output, aggregate investment, scientific research, and political stability."

A Wry Look-Back at the Presidential Campaign

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Lea Lane

Has it been only two months since the presidential campaign ended?

McCain's 'Country First' Actually "Republicans First'

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011

Marlene H. Phillips

What happened to the John McCain who gave such a moving concession speech, the John McCain who talked about working together and healing our country?

A Year After Iowa

Alexander Heffner | Posted 05.25.2011

Alexander Heffner

A year after Obama swept through Iowa in magical fashion to stun the political establishment, he is less than twenty days away from being inaugurated the 44th POTUS.

Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election

Paula B. Mays | Posted 11.17.2011

Paula B. Mays

The election of Obama also offers a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare, tacitly accepting torture, and permitting a denegation of our civil rights.

We Still Know Some of the Things We Knew

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Lincoln Mitchell

Obama's record-shattering fundraising was a key piece of his election victory allowing him to not only dominate the airwaves, but to implement his campaign's brilliantly planned field campaign.