What Barack DID Say in Berlin
If I could forecast stock performance as I do rhetoric, I could be the King of Wall Street. In my post of July 22, "What Will Barack Say in Berlin?" I...
If I could forecast stock performance as I do rhetoric, I could be the King of Wall Street. In my post of July 22, "What Will Barack Say in Berlin?" I...
Steve Clemons | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Obama's speech had high points and deserves applause -- but it's ultimately forgettable because he failed to deliver the most important lines where they most mattered.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
The association of Obama with Kennedy was due, in large part, to their shared oratorical talents. This week's Berlin speech makes that association even more pertinent.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
For all the advantages that Barack Obama has this year, the same problems that nearly led to Kennedy losing to Nixon are lurking just below the surface of the 2008 political landscape.
Steven Weber | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
The rapturous reception that greets Obama is warranted insofar as the dream he pitches, while idyllic, is theoretically attainable.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
There are two fundamental schools of thought on foreign policy: suppose the Israelis launch a preemptive attack against Iran -- what does the United States do?
Bill Curry | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
Barack's more like Jack than Bobby: Both built campaigns on an undifferentiated idealism and sheer personal magnetism. Both are post ideological figures who belie cultural stereotypes.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
I love Barack's his ideas about a new politics of hope -- I attended MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. But I worry that Obama is more Harvard law than Chicago street fighter.
Tony Sachs | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
I love Barack Obama. He inspires a nation. He's our generation's JFK. Our LBJ. Our HSBC. Because we can bank on him doing the right thing for this country.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
For nearly her entire 51 years, Caroline Kennedy has been part of the socio-political fabric of this nation. She first captivated America as the tin...
Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Kennedy's legacy to my generation is his mythology -- his superheroic ideal of a politician we now simply call Bobby. We will continue to search for "Bobby" for the foreseeable future.
Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
These moments are memorable not because they are gaffes, but epiphanies, illuminating what many voters already think of a candidate. The images endure not because they were aberrations, but revelations.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
Where is the apology to America still traumatized by the assassinations of Martin, Malcolm, John and Bobby? To the African American community still traumatized by the fear that the same could happen to Barack?
Ned Lamont | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
President John F. Kennedy balanced diplomacy, sanctions, and the threat of force to carry the day and avoid World War III. Today, his brother continues to carry the torch lit by his inaugural speech.
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
The Kennedy family has always had special meaning in my life. I know exactly where I was when a friend yelled out to me in 1963, "The president has been shot."
Barry Rosenberg | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
If there's a lesson to be learned by this week's 90th anniversary of airmail, it is that the next president of the United States has every opportunity to be another Kennedy, Roosevelt or Lincoln.
Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama went one step further today in his pushback against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and President Bush on appe...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Her boyfriend had been one of the most popular and best students in the history of Just Like High School. He played first-chair saxophone in the Just...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.11.2008 | Living
A few weeks ago, Ted Sorensen - husband, father, and renowned speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - was interviewed by Deborah Solomon of the N...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
If elected, Obama, could become a magic speaker in the vein of the Big Three; the extent to which he can go off-the-cuff in a Trumanesque manner remains unclear.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits). How JFK came up wi...
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
If African Americans don't turn out for Clinton, or vote against her, to any degree less than the last few presidential contests, she will lose.
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."
Kathryn Kolbert | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
"I'm proud to be a liberal." That was John F. Kennedy back in 1960. You haven't heard too many people in public life saying that in recent years, but I think you'll be hearing a lot more of it.
Jean Kennedy Smith | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
I was privileged to serve as America's Ambassador to Ireland during the birth of the peace process. It's essential to understand the true lesson that time can teach us about leadership.
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics