Obama's Call to Service Is the Key to Electing Him President
Fundamentally, Democrats lost the last presidential election because while we talked about policies and programs, the Republicans talked about right and wrong. Never again.
Fundamentally, Democrats lost the last presidential election because while we talked about policies and programs, the Republicans talked about right and wrong. Never again.
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
A German friend passed along the news Saturday that local sources in Berlin are confirming that the Obama campaign was in contact with city authoritie...
Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.
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?
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
RFK and Barack Obama may come to be seen as the bookends of the second American civil war, a war that has divided the nation and been a dominant force in our politics for four decades.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.
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...
John Farr | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Why would Obama say what he said? It's probably because those issues really came up with the people he spoke to, those citizens he supposedly "demeaned."
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
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.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
Liberals are trying to create a story for the death of the Democratic party. The cause may be as simple as basic biology: without the head, the body dies.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
In an interview Monday with the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on a range of political topics ranging from Katrina, th...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
How did President Bill Clinton's welfare "reform," "free trade" pacts, and "deregulation" help African Americans? And what would a President Hillary Clinton do differently?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
The Democratic candidates who voted for Bush's war now find themselves in the same position as Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
How a person whose job it is to inform the American people about the views and policies of the President of the United States can be so historically challenged is beyond comprehension.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
Robert F. Kennedy would have turned 82-years-old today. One can only imagine what he might think about our current state of affairs.
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Robert Creamer | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics