Barack Obama

The study of politics involves reading the tea leaves - what one very savvy businesswoman at the top of her field told me she does everyday to see which way the wind is blowing in her company. She listens for what is being said, but more importantly what isn't.

Wherever...

In what some Democratic Party insiders are calling a particularly ominous sign for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, former president Bill Clinton today became the latest superdelegate to switch from Sen. Clinton to her rival, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).

Sources close to the former president said that Mr. Clinton had been...

After all the pontificating on TV, in the end it didn't come down to sideshow jive like the Reverend Wright Imbroglio or the Great Sniper Fire Lie. It didn't come down to micro-demographics, or gas prices, or the war in Iraq. Incredibly enough, it didn't even come down to the...

Anyone who has read my many pro-Obama essays on the Huffington Post knows that I believe that Senator Obama will make a great president. They also know that I've been less than kind to Senator Clinton. Clinton's supporters have responded with their comments.

Those of us who voted for Obama...

Anybody who believes Rush Limbaugh's idiotic gas bag boast that he tilted elections in Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and now Indiana to Hillary Clinton deserves the word that Al Franken used a few years ago in the title to his best selling book to describe Limbaugh.

Limbaugh's Operation Chaos is the...

Hillary and her supporters aren't giving up on her arguments that she's the most electable candidate because she's won among blue-collar whites. She told USA Today in an article published today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview...

The Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana primaries are over and the situation has returned to the status quo ante. Senator Obama's leads in selected delegates, popular votes and contests won. The remaining six primaries are unlikely to significantly change this landscape. It is time to consider how to settle on...

I reconnected with an Afghan friend of mine named Ahmad Idrees Rahmani who I hadn't seen since the 2001 war. He had recently completed a degree at Stanford and is setting up a new think tank called Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies in Kabul. We had a conversation...

For the past week, I'm been trying to come up with a topper, but I haven't been able to. The competition for "Most Stupid" is fierce, but after Tuesday #1 remains untouched.

No, George Bush doesn't make that lofty height. Sure, appearing on TV game shows, dancing and doing comedy...

A group of 250 leading economists has signed a letter urging the Clintons to continue her campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. "The remaining states have all fallen on hard times," said the letter, "and the Clinton campaign spends enormous amounts of money, forcing Obama to spend even more...

With the last chances of winning the Democratic nomination slipping away, the question increasingly arises whether Hillary Clinton should hope for the number two spot.

The answer is a clear yes.

I am a big fan of Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo and often agree with him,...

With results in Indiana and North Carolina showing that Hillary Clinton wasn't going to beat expectations, her increasingly audacious campaign attempted a stunning political sleight of hand. They simply declared that the magic number--the combined pledged and super delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination--had changed. No longer would it...