Barack Obama

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,...

Those who say Hillary Clinton won't accept the Democratic Party vice presidential nomination are assuming that she wants all or nothing. The same can be said of those believing Obama would turn down VP.

What if we look at both of them as politicians and leaders who care more about...

The US is at a crucial flexion point in selecting its next Democratic Candidate for president.

Eight years of serious blunders in Washington, since Bush edged out Gore in 2000, have left a large majority of Americans desperately hoping for and wanting new presidential leadership.

A year ago Hillary Clinton...

Look, I've been around politics long enough to know that it's a contact sport. Words will be abused. Phrases will be taken out of context.

But the latest distortion from the GOP, frankly, shouldn't give us all pause -- it should spring us into action.

Here's the story, if you...

This morning I asked my 15-year-old daughter what she didn't like about Hillary Clinton.

"I mean at the beginning, before she started going negative and attacking Barack Obama," I said, trying to rewind history.

My daughter was sitting at the kitchen table, where thousands of impassioned conversations in...

There are few writers I respect more, and have learned more from, than Susan Faludi. But she dangerously dismisses racism as a factor in drawing white male voters to Hillary Clinton's campaign in her New York Times op-ed essay this week Instead she endorses Clinton's archetype as a "brawler" who...

Here's the thing: If Barack Obama wants to win this fall against John McCain -- and it seems obvious he will capture the Democratic nomination -- he needs to send his story to those reached only by MySpace, Facebook or iPods, parenting sites and tech guys, as well as to...

Perhaps because it is through telling stories that I pay my rent, but I think that humans reason via analogy and storytelling. We attempt to get a handle on the present and predict the future through comparisons to stories of the past. If someone is trying to sell us some...

Much attention was made of Hillary Clinton's interview last week with USA Today, when she noted that support for Barack Obama "among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Many found her comments about race...

Sen. Barack Obama won't be in West Virginia tomorrow on Election Day. With his sights set on the general election, he'll be in Missouri.

Obama's public schedule isn't offering many details yet, but reveals he will be in Cape Girardeau, MO, on Tuesday.

He'll...