Friday Talking Points [40] -- Obama Shines, McCain Whines
Be careful what you wish for, John. That seems to be the message of the week for Senator John McCain. He took some campaign consultant's idea a few w...
Be careful what you wish for, John. That seems to be the message of the week for Senator John McCain. He took some campaign consultant's idea a few w...
William Bradley | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Here are six reasons McCain is very fortunate he ended up at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in Ohio Friday, rather than on a pitching oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Marc Kusnetz | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Each time Obama steps on a new stage, the press criticizes his rhetoric as high-falutin' but devoid of content. Do they think Berlin was the perfect time to announce a new initiative for the earned income tax credit?
John Tomasic | Posted 08.02.2008 | Home
For anyone who hasn't surfed over yet, PrezVid has a great three-part line up of videos, a series of what what you could call "the American Freedom Sp...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
From Kabul to Baghdad to Jerusalem, in Berlin and now in Paris, Obama's conduct abroad has earned him the right to be considered a respected presumptive commander-in-chief.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
If I could forecast stock performance as I do rhetoric, I could be the King of Wall Street. In my post of July 22, "What Will Barack Say in Berlin?" I...
Jackson Williams | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
The final piece to the puzzle may well be adding Clinton's populist economic message to Obama's call for "change we can believe in."
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Obama's speech had high points and deserves applause -- but it's ultimately forgettable because he failed to deliver the most important lines where they most mattered.
Lea Lane | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
To avoid stress, and especially since Bush's re-election, I've avoided mentioning that I'm American, and have even resorted to saying that I'm from Ottawa, a lovely capital city I know a bit about.
The Huffington Post | Dan Duray/Katharine Zaleski | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Major news organizations are drawing comparisons between Barack Obama's speech in Berlin today and those of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. (They w...
Abbie Tingstad | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
The equivalent of the dramatic Kennedy or Reagan speeches would have had to take place elsewhere. Sprinkling a speech on freedom with Farsi or Pashto in Afghanistan would have sent a message.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Tens of thousands of people who have been highly critical of our country gather to hear an American political figure. They wait, as we do, for the new day.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Usually, William Kristol deploys his New York Times column to try and provide John McCain with some extra intellectual firepower. But today he leaps into the breach to assist Obama. Or so he would have it.
Reuters | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business
A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics