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Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.

In early July 2008 Senate Republicans voted, with astounding conformity, in favor of the controversial electronic surveillance FISA bill update that w...

Obama skipped the Democratic Leadership Council's "National Conversation" this weekend, even thought it was a block from Obama's Chicago campaign head...

Those of us who want real change must hold with one hand to the absolute necessity of an Obama victory and with the other to the possibility that pragmatic cynicism may be precisely not the road to achieve victory.

So why, when in more and more districts, a vote to fund the war is a greater threat to incumbency than a vote to end it, do Hoyer and Pelosi still carry Bush's brackish water?

The end Clintonian control of the Democratic Party will be a time with many opportunities for people and organizations to jump into the openings in the power hierarchy that is forming.

DLC operatives recognize how quickly the political process is moving past the black-white racial politics towards a Sunbelt strategy targeting a more diverse country.

Hillary Clinton's recent resurgent popularity increases the DLC's faith in a possible unprecedented failure this Fall. Despite the polls, the Council still believes she gives Democrats the best chance to lose.

The new majority Obama speaks of is not an empty platitude; it is the most compelling reason to vote for him.

The real Hillary Clinton is the best qualified to be president in 2008. Unfortunately for her and America, her husband has dominated their marriage to her detriment.

Hillary's orphans now realize that the frantic attempts to reach her were made hopeless by her phalanx of DLC guards. Among her most trusted confidants are too many super brains with wilted souls.

There is one major player whose presence (and voice) remains strangely absent from the debate around the nomination -- Democratic Leadership Council Chairman Harold Ford.