Obama's Master Plan
It could be plausibly argued that the president wants the public to demand that the Bush gang be held accountable.
It could be plausibly argued that the president wants the public to demand that the Bush gang be held accountable.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monic...
Marc Cooper | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
History comes full cycle with the election of a leftist president in El Salvador. Those we branded two decades ago as "international terrorists" now democratically govern Central America.
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
Las Vegas, Nevada - My good friend Micah Sifry framed this historic day perfectly right about noontime. "The hands that picked the cotton are the hand...
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.
Marc Cooper | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home
McCain openly boasted about his deep collaboration with one of the most prominent of Vietnam-era student radicals, David Ifshin, who denounced America on Radio Hanoi as McCain sat locked up as a POW.
Marc Cooper | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
Here you are at age 25 with what your Mom and I thought was a solid education, and you're but a common community organizer. Let me count the ways we did you wrong.
Marc Cooper | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home
When the post-mortems are written on the now diseased McCain campaign and -- more generally -- on the demise of the Reagan Era, the three top contributing factors of death will be listed as Katrina, Sarah, and Gustav.
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.03.2008 | Home
For breaking updates on the Sean Bell acquittal click here. NEW YORK -- Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing...
Marc Cooper | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
During Wednesday night's debate, George Stephanopoulos didn't flinch from trying to smear Obama by association with former '60s radical Bill Ayers. Too bad George didn't ask Hillary about her summer spent working for a law firm run by Communists.
Jay Rosen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
As an Obama supporter, I was proud to publish Mayhill Fowler's truthful report, though I recognize that it touched off an ordeal for the campaign, a media storm that isn't over and could hurt Obama's chances.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.29.2008 | Home
We O-boomers are, I fear, ready to be disappointed by a President Obama. It's a well-worn reflex with us. But we can sense at least the mathematical possibility of some refreshing change if he is elected.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The media has turned downright skittish in noting the similarities between Eliot and Bill. Would it somehow be unfair to muddy the Clinton campaign with such uncomfortable associations?
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least, not democratically.
John Tomasic | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
In interviews with OffTheBus this past week, California superdelegates undercut media-generated dramatic narratives about how the Democratic nominatio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
With the Democratic presidential race heading toward a possible climax Tuesday as four states including Texas and Ohio conduct their primaries, the la...
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Politics is all about perception, and the perception of Ralph Nader's first run was that of a tragedy. His redux in 2004 was more of a farce. His run this time will be doomed to be pathetic.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Whoever wins the most votes in the California battle, and is therefore perceived to be the inevitable nominee, is likely to actually become the Democratic nominee.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has only one enemy left standing and it's not Hillary Clinton. It's time itself. All the evidence is in: the more that voters are exposed to Obama, the more they flock to him. The more they see Hillary Clinton, the more stagnant her numbers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are engaged in a fierce battle to capture the crucial emerging Latino vote during next week's s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Hollywood, Calif. -- The much-anticipated Tinseltown one-on-one Democratic debate tonight lacked much of the drama that had been widely predicted and ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Los Angeles, California -- Just hours before a dramatic one-on-one televised debate with rival Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama led his campaign in...
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
John Edward exits the presidential race having done the right thing -- the right thing in having run the way he did and the right thing in leaving when he does.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
After Saturday's whuppin' in South Carolina, will the Hillary campaign finally snap the muzzle down on Bill? Or has Big Dawg strayed completely out of control?
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.10.2009 | Media