During the past week of the campaign, desperate to reverse the falling polls, the Republicans have decided to take the low road and have rejected Reagan's formula for conservative success.
Michael Showalter | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Believe it or not: this Ayers thing is gaining momentum. The collective attention span for any one issue is two weeks and Obama's two weeks are up. It's pulp fiction but who doesn't love a good read?
Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin has been out there saying Obama is friends with Ayers, "a domestic terrorist." In response, Obama has accurately pointed out that Ayers committed his actions over forty years ago, when Obama was eight years old.
Editor&Publisher | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Surprising a letter to the editor published in th New York Times today, the chief prosecutor of the Weather Undeground in the 1970s expressed outrage ...
Politico | CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & AMIE PARNES | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
John McCain raised questions for the first time Thursday about Barack Obama's association with a 1960s-era radical, elevating an attack that had been ...
Chris Goldberg | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
When asked during the VP debate what made him think he could work with the other party, Joe Biden gave a brilliant answer, saying that he never, ever questioned the motives of his opponents.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.09.2008 | Media
Elisabeth Hasselbeck continued pushing Barack Obama's connections to William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright Thursday morning on "The View," and she went so...
Josh Kalven | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago
As more and more commentators rail against Obama's faulty "judgment" in working with Ayers, I'd like to see hosts and anchors ask them to explain what this relationship supposedly tells us about how he would govern as president.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
So, this morning, while many are figuring out how John McCain's new mortgage plan will help spur America to the point where every single risk taken wi...
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
I keep recalling the poisonous climate revved up by right wing fundamentalists in Israel prior to Rabin's murder. Are my recollections uncalled-for exaggerations? I sure as hell hope so.
Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Neither McCain nor Palin have actually advocated or said that Obama himself is a "terrorist," but they and their campaign have certainly engaged in smear campaigns creating enough innuendos.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
If McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
The right ingredients, at the right time, mixed together by a ravenously ambitious leader without any moral compass, can and will produce something extremely toxic and dangerous.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
After attacking Barack Obama's association with William Ayers for several days running, including yesterday, Sarah Palin made no mention of Ayers in h...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
During the vice presidential debate, Sarah Palin couldn't resist showing off her knowledge of a new term: "domestic terrorist."
Paul Engleman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago
The 1983 Chicago mayoral election has one obvious similarity to this year's presidential race. With only a few weeks left, there is a real possibility that something which until recently seemed unthinkable will happen: An African-American could be elected president.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2008 | Media
UPDATE: Robert Gibbs Selected Press Secretary You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an entire evening of debat...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
What's most troubling about the McCain camp's desperate decision to attack on Sen. Obama is that they understand the nastiness, the pettiness, the just-plain-wrongness of what they're doing.
Omid Safi | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
It has been a nasty campaign. Many of us have already run out of righteous indignation, but what we have seen these last few days might be lowest point, and a portent of things to come.
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment
The crowd always has the power - the power to not give the comedian the laugh. If you want people to elect you leader, it's best to avoid putting yourself in a position of having less power.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin seems to have convinced herself that making it through one vice-presidential debate without doing any further damage to her reputation now gives her sufficient standing to question Barack Obama's everything.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
McCain's decision to personally smear Obama with lies and distortions should go down in history as the final nail in his political coffin.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
I'd rather be thrown out for the truth than group-hugged for a lie.
Politico | Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago
A co-writer of a movie script about the life of former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers is hoping the mountains of attention generated by Ayers' ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Whatever you believe about Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the fact remains that he is not running for president. But John McCain doesn't really have any other arrows left in his quiver.
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics