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The Big Bang of Attack Ads

Steve Cone | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Steve Cone

In memory of its creator, I think it is high time we understand that the 1964 Daisy ad was not about being negative but rather truthful.

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The Speech Obama Needs to Give

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home

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Leonce Gaiter

"Hillary Clinton is an exemplary Senator, a furious campaigner, and a great American. She has been a vital part of this moment in history, this moment when we showed the world what the 'land of opportunity' can mean."

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Friday Talking Points [34] -- General Election Preview

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

As the primary election season sinks slowly in the West (South Dakota and Montana, to be exact), we turn our eyes (finally!) to the general election c...

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Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

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Mike Bonifer

The Bush Gang was not the first to appropriate cowboy iconography for politics, but since they did, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

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Post-Implosion Politics

Christopher Ingram | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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Christopher Ingram

McCain may not be perfect, but a maverick is exactly what the GOP needs now.

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Hillary on the Bottom?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

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Carol Felsenthal

For Barack Obama, the best scenario might be to offer the vice presidency to Hillary Clinton and pray that she declines.

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The Swill from Bill

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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Andrew Gumbel

The subtext I hear from him is this: I'm Bill Clinton, so you have to take whatever I tell you, and by the way you've got to vote for my wife, out of fear if not out of respect.

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April 4, 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

Bobby Kennedy's brief remarks the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would be later described as a small masterpiece of American public rhetoric made all the more poignant by his own assassination just eight weeks later.

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"I Shall Not Seek, and I Will Not Accept..."

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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Robert Schlesinger

Forty years ago tonight, Lyndon B. Johnson stopped bombing Vietnam long enough to drop a big one on the U.S. political landscape.

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Forty Years On: Kerner and the Liberal Media

John Ridley | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

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John Ridley

For all the areas of society in which blacks -- and by extension all minorities -- have enjoyed some measure of parity, there is one glaring and ironic omission: the very media which is so often accused of having a liberal bias.

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Framing MLK And LBJ

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

King's legacy is a third-rail issue -- touch it and you die in Democratic politics. Clinton was seen as somehow "slighting" King, and so she had to pay the price.

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Clinton vs. Obama: Lest We Forget

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

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Clarence B. Jones

The challenge confronting me and others, who worked with Dr. King, is how to set the record straight without appearing to third parties to be playing the so-called "race card".

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Johnson Did Help Give Life to King's Dream

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics

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Michael Fauntroy

Clinton was factually right and, after seeing the video of the comment, I am convinced that she met no disrespect to King's legacy.

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In Panic Mode, Hillary Clinton Joins the LBJ Wing of the Democratic Party

Adam Hanft | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

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Adam Hanft

Hillary repeats, endlessly, that this campaign is about her "life's work" of 35 years. But at the end of the day, how important are her causes, really, versus vaulting ambition?

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Talking About JFK, Acting Like LBJ (With "Pragmatic Idealism" That's Neither)

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

Of all the campaign's miscalculations, Hillary's is the most frustrating. They continue to brag about their "pragmatism," even as it drags their candidate down with perceptions of cynicism and expediency.

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Bush Is The Biggest Spender Since LBJ

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics

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George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since...

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