Barack Obama

I was slightly stunned at the irony of this paragraph in your endorsement of Barack Obama:

"Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission...

Hillary Clinton and I finally agree on something. No, not her Republican gas tax plan, but that Tuesday's North Carolina primary is going to be a "game-changer."

Over the weekend in Kinston, N.C., Clinton said, "This is going to make a huge difference in what happens going forward. The entire...

So Tom Hanks has endorsed Barack Obama, comparing him -- according to the clip I just saw on Hardball -- with FDR, HST, JFK and RWR (that last would be Ronald Reagan -- apparently the Dems have the monopoly on names that can be reduced to catchy three-letter-initials, though...

"The road goes on forever and the party never ends."
--Robert Earl Keen

Tomorrow is yet another primary day in the Democratic presidential nomination race, between Hillary Clinton and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

What's that? Wright is not running, you say?

Oh, that's right -- the actual candidate is...

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Hillary Clinton had dropped an anti-Obama mail piece asking "Where does Obama really stand on guns?"

Those reports were true, but the mailing backfired. At the Politico, Ben Smith reported on Clinton's "gun gaffe" last night:

Sen. Hillary Clinton's mailing attacking Sen. Barack...

They are a Democratic candidate's demographic dream:

• Already, there are tens of millions of them, and each time the Census Bureau issues a new report, we learn that their numbers have swelled still again.

• Their voting potential is not fully tapped. Far from it. Millions among them...

It's about believing in Barack.

When it comes to forgetting that, I'm as guilty as they come. Guilty of twisting myself into something more "anti-Hillary" than "pro-Obama." Guilty of letting righteous indignation cloud the big picture. Most of all -- I'm guilty of forgetting what drew me to the...

On Sunday, Andrew Sullivan published a story arguing that when Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, he should give serious consideration to selecting Hillary Clinton as his running mate. The argument itself is not new, but that it is coming from Sullivan, one of Obama's most eloquent and ardent...

I covered the 1988 presidential campaign. I was in my 20s and had no idea what I was doing, though I did enjoy myself. And watching as the George H.W. Bush campaign turned it into a referendum on prison furloughs and the pledge of allegiance (the reductio ad absurdum being...

There's something that's really been bugging me.

(Would you like to talk about it?
Yes I would)

It's that incident in Scranton, Pa, where Barack Obama was photo-opping his breakfast when news person had the GALL to ask a question. Obama was NOT amused: "Why is it that, like,...

Is Hillary right? Should we bomb Iran, were its mullahs to launch a preemptive strike against Israel? Or at least should we send them a warning shot across their bow, just in case they are harboring the idea--which a lot of hawks in Jerusalem and Washington suggest?

Obama says...

As we stagger out into the middle of the ring for Round 1,293 of this heavyweight title-fight between two battered contenders for the Democratic Party crown, the cumulative effect of all the punches, head-butts and knockdowns has been to make us all feel soul-weary and half-concussed. As one who's become...