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The Vice Presidency of Al Gore, 2009-2017

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton is being talked about as a possible vice president; her supporters say she is the strongest choice, and that anyone else is inferior. But Al Gore is certainly the most qualified for the job.

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Hillary: It Ain't Over Yet!

Beverly Davis | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

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The Hillary speech not only ignored Obama's historic win but was so laden with self-preservation and -aggrandizement it's clear that, although she is at the end of her candidacy, she is not done with her self-deluded power plays.

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To Control the Endgame, Obama Should Announce a Date-Certain in June to Name his VP

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

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If Barack Obama states a date -- certain by which he will choose a vice president, then a minimum of one week earlier is the date by which Hillary withdraws or is not considered for vice president.

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Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary

Stephen Ducat | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton is not merely carrying the torch of the "old politics." She is also the ironic bearer of the old masculinity, a knuckle-dragging version of manhood that is defined in terms of domination.

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Do the Clintons Feel Our Pain, or Do They Cause It?

Julia Gorin | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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That's the question that Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing and Suspect Musing of Billary attempts to answer. Dating back to the 1960s and through b...

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Race Is All the Clintons Have Left

Mike Barnicle | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton, always ambitious, an over-achiever, tough, smart and resilient. And now on the edge of writing a truly ugly chapter for all to see.

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Clintons On Site and On Fox, Pulling Close in NC

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

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Many North Carolina voters say they saw Hillary on Fox with OReilley, which was a good thing. They were also swayed by live interaction with one of the three Clintons. Obama, they say, just wasn't around.

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The Question of Hillary Clinton's Guilt-By-Association Tactics

Carl Bernstein | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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The resort by Hillary and her campaign to guilt-by-association, of which the Bill Ayers allegations are but one example, is, even for some of her most steadfast advocates, particularly dismaying.

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Four Reasons Why Hoosiers Should Pass the Ball to Obama

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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I am writing this partially in support of Sen. Obama, but just as much as an homage to all my deer-hunting, Pucker drinking, four-wheel riding Hoosier homies, many of whom are blood.

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

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Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

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What Will a Hillary Clinton Presidency Look Like?

Carl Bernstein | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

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We can expect the essential Clintonian experience that mesmerizes the press, confuses the citizenry, confounds members of Congress and keeps the rest of the world constantly amused and fixated.

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Wild Theories About Bill's Unconscious Need To Sabotage Hillary Don't Look So Wild Now

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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Originally, I was just funning, enjoying the latitude of a blog post, free associating into a possibility that could never be confirmed. But yikes. This latest feels like confirmation.

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Mark Penn, Not Reverend Wright, is the Mega-Embarrassment of this Campaign

Adam Hanft | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn represents everything that's wrong with the American political system: paid access, unfettered lobbying, market-tested nothingness, cross-over conflicts.

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Why This Is The End For The Clintons

Dave Winer | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

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Who pays $1 million for an after-dinner speaker and why? Maybe I'm missing something, but something doesn't sound right here.

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The New Assassins Don't Use Guns

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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A new form of political murder has taken its place -- character assassination. Over the last two decades, the Right has learned how to destroy its enemies without leaving a body.

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It's 2:59 a.m. for Hillary

Bill Katovsky | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

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It's 2:59 a.m. for Hillary and her chances appear increasingly bleak. Hillary's crime is one of hubris coupled with her addiction to being a pathological triangulator.

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The Public Self-Destruction of Bill Clinton

John Eskow | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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The saddest part of what Bill Clinton is doing is that he's driving home the point, once and for all, that whatever grandeur we saw in him was a sham right from the start.

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America's Twisted Marriage of Religion and Politics

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.

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McCain's Church Hates America, Clinton's Friends Do Too -- But Let's Get the Black Guy (Or Not?)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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If the Clintons were authentic progressives or even ordinary decent Americans, they would have led a furious defense of Obama and his pastor by putting things in perspective.

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Breaking the Rules

Lucy Carrigan | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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The Democratic Party is not operating in a logical world, in a logical way, in a logical fashion. It is is kow-towing to the Clintons.

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Obama of Chicago: Carl Sandburg Should Have There Been!

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics

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Like old Abe, the lean, young Senator, announced in Springfield; and promises, in soaring rhetoric, to hold us to our ideals.

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Clinton Superdelegate Defects to Obama: "I'm Not That Important to Them"

Beverly Davis | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home

Asked if she had heard from the Clintons before or since she made her super delegate switchover, Samuels said, "I haven't heard from the Clintons and to be truthful, I guess I'm not that important to them. I'm only one of 13 SuperDelegates in New Jersey and I'm following my heart."

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Hillary's "Husband Problem"

Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

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History suggests that rather than enhance her image the way a wife enhances a male candidate, a husband can complicate a woman's leadership aspirations.

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Clinton Superdelegates Echoing "Screw Democracy" Message

David Sirota | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

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Egomania knows no bounds and no loyalty -- not even to the founding principles of democracy.

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Missouri Trends Toward Obama

Beverly Davis | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home

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Missouri has 88 Democratic delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday and if the tracking polls and the opinions of several state consultants and politic...

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