Obama Forces Flip-Flops to Paralyze McCain
Three days into his international fact-finding mission, Obama had polished his foreign policy credentials considerably, and it did not take long for the effects of his bold initiatives to start hitting D.C.
Three days into his international fact-finding mission, Obama had polished his foreign policy credentials considerably, and it did not take long for the effects of his bold initiatives to start hitting D.C.
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — As Democrat Barack Obama began an overseas tour, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told employees at U.S. embassies to provide on...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend talks about its dis...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
SHANNON, Ireland — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend talks about its disputed nuclear p...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.20.2008 | Home
Unlike Rice and Powell, Clinton and Obama want to wield the power themselves, and they make no bones about it. This is a radical shift in establishment Washington's racial/sexual dynamic.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Condi needs to either convince the president what a catastrophe attacking Iran would be. Or, failing that, break with the administration and do the noble thing by resigning while it still might make a difference.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
In an interview with the Golf Channel on Saturday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Ive been playing and playing a lot" in the past few year...
Think Progress | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
In May, President Bush revealed that he had given up playing golf because of the Iraq war. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong sig...
Robert Scheer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
It was always about the oil -- that's why "we" invaded Iraq -- only "we" aren't getting any, at least not at a reasonable price. The oil companies are.
Eve Ensler | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
Forgive me for seeing everything as a play, but it did occur to me Friday as Rice took the stage on the floor of the UN Security Council to talk about the importance of dealing with sexual violence as a security issue that we were all witnessing bad theater.
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
Cheney's aide-de-nepotism -- daughter, Elizabeth -- has once again rallied to his cause of pursuing war with Iran.
Patrick Barry | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
If you try to square Rice's Marty McFly analysis in Foreign Affairs with the state of the world today, you end up with a catalog of faulty recommendations and squandered opportunities.
Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pronounced herself "gratified" and unsurprised by Sen. Barack Obama's win in the Democratic presidential primary d...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, the highest-ranking black member of the Bush administration, congratulated Barack Obama Wednesd...
R.O. Blechman | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
How many times are we going to have a key Bush administration official try to wash the blood off his hands -- and add a chunk of change to his bank account -- by writing a come-clean book years after the fact instead of when it actually could have made a difference? Read More Unmasking McCain: His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really? You'd rather vote for a man who has a 25-year history of voting against a woman's right to choose? Read More WATCH: CNBC's Business Nation Goes Behind The Scenes At HuffPost
Jim David | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued.
Hooman Majd | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics
If there were ever a perfect example of the Bush administration's utterly bankrupt foreign policy, it would have to be the State Department's reaction to events in Beirut over the last few days.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
Many Americans would like to change the perception that the U.S. is not serious about opposing Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Jimmy Carter caused a storm of controversy when he met with Hamas during his Mideast trip. Secretary Rice has said the Bush Administration 'explicitl...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Speaking in Baghdad on Sunday, Rice unintentionally but tellingly ridiculed Bush and Cheney while mocking hardline Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader ...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
We now know that Condoleezza Rice led White House meetings authorizing torture that were so detailed, "the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed."
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Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics