John McCain, The Jan Brady of Presidential Politics
Some days McCain barely puts a dent in the news cycle, and Tuesday, when he finally gets a storyline all to himself, it's about how sucky his campaign is going.
Some days McCain barely puts a dent in the news cycle, and Tuesday, when he finally gets a storyline all to himself, it's about how sucky his campaign is going.
Tony Sachs | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Paul Krugman's recent, widely quoted editorial in Monday's New York Times opens with this: "It's feeling a lot like 1992 right now. It's also feelin...
Ira Forman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
McCain and the bully boys on the right employ a strategy to paint Obama as weak on Iran and an enemy of the Jewish community. They use "guilt by association" to scare Jewish voters.
Marshall Grossman | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Those of us who want real change must hold with one hand to the absolute necessity of an Obama victory and with the other to the possibility that pragmatic cynicism may be precisely not the road to achieve victory.
Victor LaPorte | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
In an overwhelming show of support for our nation's veterans Thursday evening, 92 U.S. Senators voted in favor of the 21st Century GI Bill; also known...
Paul C. Light | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Dear Senators McCain and Obama, I am writing to seek your support for a bipartisan effort to restore the federal government's ability to faithfully execute the laws.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home
Typical: old dogs, new tricks. I know folks are trying in earnest to get some fusion going between the presidential election and social media, but this type of trash misses the point entirely.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The substance of any proposed economic reforms is less important, frankly, than McCain demonstrating that he can, in fact, understand the economy and discuss it in some depth.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
Withing days of the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees, Gingrich and Giuliani pushed their way into the debate, and began to argue that liberal views on Habeas Corpus would kill Americans.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
I besiege Democrats not to take an Obama win for granted. We can't assume everyone in the country is aware of McCain's weaknesses and fidelity to the Bush agenda.
Dan Treul | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home
There is something culturally sick about defining such a critical election along racial lines alone. This election should not be a referendum on black and white. It should be a referendum on the Bush years.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
During the primary season, roughly 35 million people voted for somebody who was not a white man. Maybe the Republicans have a problem -- America is not ready for another white male president.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
Rather than back McCain, right-wing pundits seem poised to turn him into a cartoon effigy of all they claim is wrong with American liberalism.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Many moving things have been said about how so many girls now believe that they can be anything they want because of Hillary -- but there's also an impact on boys, like my own two sons.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Lost in all the noise about Obama's supposed problems winning Jewish support is that he is winning this group by nearly 2-1. Obama should wish for such problems with Christian voters as well.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media
What prompted Limbaugh to make a negative ruling on McCain's manhood was not that McCain bashed Bush, but that McCain dared to criticize "government" in his New Orleans speech earlier this week.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
For nearly her entire 51 years, Caroline Kennedy has been part of the socio-political fabric of this nation. She first captivated America as the tin...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
While the nominating system probably should be reformed, doing that will not be simple. Most of the easy solutions to fixing the nominating system are neither easy nor solutions.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
Soon, very soon, we'll finally lurch into the general election campaign. So where to now? Not surprisingly, there are any number of predictions available.
Rob Kall | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Will Bob Barr play the role of Nader to John McCain, or will his most likely base, Ron Paul supporters, pull from Obama?
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2008 | Media
I believe that people in every corner of the country and of all political stripes would react with an equal level of disgust when we hear remarks of the sort that Liz Trotter made on FOX News.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
If we do not see a concession by early June, we can assume that Senator Clinton and her advisers have made the mistake of believing their own spin.
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
One of the big arguments coming from both the McCain and Clinton camps has been that Obama cannot win those northern industrial states and that they can. But is this true?
Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
People talk about the prospect of a divided convention as a terminal event -- the end of political life as we know it. It might be messy. It might be rough. But it will be great politics.
Dan Treul | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home
The genius of the rally lay, appropriately enough, in its sheer audacity. West Michigan is solid GOP right-wing evangelical country and the Van Andel Arena is it's temple. How would Obama fare in lions' den?
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Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics