Barack Obama

John Edwards endorsement pretty much ratifies what we already know: Barack Obama will be our party's nominee for president. This is another great day for those of us who support the Obama campaign. I believe this is a great day for all Democrats.

It is a bittersweet day for...

Just moments after former presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) for president, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) vowed to "continue the fight" for Edwards' endorsement.

"My friends, I will fight for the endorsement of John Edwards, even if it takes all summer," she told supporters in Louisville, Kentucky....

Senator McCain's 'Hamas attack' on Senator Obama has certainly got a lot of play. The McCain campaign even used it in a fundraising email.

While neither campaign has come out of the episode bathed in glory, the way in which Senator McCain manipulated this raises some worrying questions...

[Those of you who prefer "all cynicism all the time" should just skip this column, since I'm about to get blisteringly optimistic here. You have been warned.]

Maybe this will be Karl Rove's legacy. One can only hope.

There have been three astounding elections recently which are absolutely terrifying...

This endless Democratic primary season may or may not be good for the party, but it has certainly not been good for the media. Pages of newsprint and hours of airtime have been wasted parsing election results, exit polls, non-exit polls and the comments of the candidate's surrogates and pseudo-surrogates....

As expected, Sen. Hillary Clinton crushed Sen. Barack Obama in yesterday's West Virginia primary. This result means very little, of course. Obama still has the most pledged delegates, the most superdelegates, and the most popular votes, and is still firmly on track to capture the Democratic Party's presidential nomination....

I am pleased to announce that today, NARAL Pro-Choice America's political action committee endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
I know that most of you are probably thinking, "Why did you decide to endorse Obama, and why are you doing it now?"

Sen. Obama has been...

Hillary's argument that Obama can't reach white working-class voters makes perfect sense. It represents her true politics -- based in buzzkill pragmatism of the most cynical kind. Will we cater to the worst in our voters all the time? Yes we will!

Or...to paraphrase Amy Poehler-in-her-Hillary-banana-suit on SNL: "My...

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has moved heaven and earth to keep race out of his campaign. He had no choice. He knew that if he gave even the faintest hint of a tilt toward black voters his campaign would be DOA. While early polls consistently showed that a crushing...

Clinton, Miss. It's Over.

And the antecedent of it is not merely the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. Two bigger "its" are also over: the general election and the era of Republican dominance.

While the numbers receiving the most media attention on Tuesday -- the results of the West...

Those who are responsible for putting Democrats in the broken place we are in right now with regard to Barack Obama had better own it to the end. Leave those bumper stickers on and wear those campaign pins until the bitter end folks because YOU OWN IT. And people are...

"Are you going to vote for Obama?" my 14-year-old daughter, Misgav, asked me the other day.

"I don't vote in American elections," I replied, "because I'm Israeli."

"But you could vote, right?"

"I could," I acknowledged. "I'm also an American citizen. But the last time I voted was in 1980....

Hillary Clinton won an overwhelming victory in West Virginia's Primary last night. But that victory in the heart of her demographic base did nothing to change the fact that the party's nominee will be Barack Obama.

Obama added at least seven new pledged delegates in West Virginia,...

Dan Kurtzer, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and an Orthodox Jew, is in Jerusalem for a conference timed for Israel's 60th birthday celebrations. Yesterday my wife heard him being interviewed on Israeli Radio, in Hebrew, about the U.S. election. Kurtzer explained that he's backing Barack Obama.

This was not...

Note: I wrote this post back on April 1 of this year. Initially, after thinking that the Jeremiah Wright situation would resolve itself (finally), I shelved it. I felt a harsh rebuff of Wright's unfair critics wasn't worth stirring the pot for. But after listening to Bill Moyers' recent...

Now that just about everyone has finally figured out that Senator Barack Obama is the right leader for America at the this crucial moment in our history and that he is going to be the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2008, we can now turn to the issue of...

Hillary's remaining advocates have said that she was only 'telling it like it is,' albeit with what they'd call a little awkward phrasing, when she told the AP last week that "hard working Americans, white Americans" will never vote for Obama. Okay. As long as we're telling it like is,...