Bill Richardson

A lot of people would have you believe that the Democratic nominee for 2008 is a foregone conclusion. I traveled across Iowa and New Hampshire with Governor Bill Richardson over the last few weeks and can tell you that this is not the case. I know that, in spite of...

The occasion was a symposium on the presidential candidates held by the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable which sponsors a weekly public policy discussion series in Los Angeles. Midway through a heated discussion over the relative merits of Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a member of the...

Earlier this week, I was unable to attend NPR's Democratic forum in Iowa because I was attending a funeral. When I read the transcript, however, I was shocked that there was almost no real discussion of the single most important issue facing our county: Iraq.

No other single problem...

With her sad and fruitless attempt at attacking Barack Obama's kindergarten ambitions behind her (by the way, who in her campaign hunted down and interrogated his teacher, and under what pretense?), Hillary Clinton is back on the Obama-no-experience track, a safer, if not necessarily more productive approach.

To that...

Living in the UK these past several weeks, there is a feeling of 'home-field advantage' in seeing, perhaps darkly, into the future. While we in the United States rely on what passes for dueling experts (mostly, those who have been consistently wrong about all the other aspects of the Iraq...

As the Iowa voters cuss and discuss the current presidential campaign leading to their state caucus, I had an opportunity this past week to meet and speak with many Iowa voters and veterans.

Coming from a Midwestern farm family, it was interesting to hear what veterans were saying about...

There actually were other Democratic presidential candidates on stage last night in the Las Vegas debate than Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

And, these other so-called second tier candidates often made more sense on the issues and had better responses than the two frontrunners.

When CNN analysts and guests...

Most of the country votes in primaries, that are just like general elections. People cast their votes, those votes are tallied, and, in the absence of skulduggery, the results reflect the divisions in the electorate. In some states, with winner-take-all, the leading candidate receives all the delegates. In others, those...

Today begins a series of campaign speech transcripts from each of the Democratic candidates for president. [Today also begins my vacation... but more about that in a minute.]

Time was when every candidate for president was taken seriously by this country's media. Their words were analyzed and reported in full,...

Saturday night, I went to the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, and listened to Nancy Pelosi and all of the Democratic candidates (except for chic-magnet Dennis Kucinich, who wasn't invited). By the way, Nancy, it was me, who in moments of silence, kept shouting "Impeach Cheney!" I wasn't...