Liberal Democrats

Political Hooliganism is Now Part of the Democratic Process

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Sabria Jawhar

Political debate legitimizes fringe groups. It allows these groups to obscure racism and xenophobia with phony arguments of UK border security while the real work is performed in the street.

Obama Can't Thumb His Nose at the GOP, and Here's Why

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

To play the centrist political game correctly requires compromise, conciliation, and bipartisanship. Obama learned early that this was the sure-fire way to bag the big financial and corporate dollars.

Obama's Economists Slammed By Liberal Dems

The Hill | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Frustrated liberal Democrats are increasingly concerned that White House economists are too centrist and "theoretical" to fix the economy. Presiden...

Obama's Rick Warren Pick Makes Perfectly Good Sense

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The 60 to 80 million Christian evangelicals are still too big, too important, and too politically strategic to ignore. Obama knows that and that's a big reason why Warren will pray at his inauguration.

Don't Blame Obama For Disappointing Liberals

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

If liberal Democrats and especially those further to the left are grumbling louder and louder about Obama they have no one but themselves to blame.

Race Boating: Swift Boat Backer Funds Racist Mail

Open Left | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


Swift Boat funder Robert Perry, a top national Republican donor, is funding overtly racist attack mail this cycle. It's not Swift Boating. It's Race B...