History doesn't just repeat itself. For Democrats it's more like a broken record. Once again the party's blowing a healthy lead by being reluctant to engage its opponent.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
The last Democratic presidential candidate who failed to engage, who abjured ruthlessness because it wasn't consistent with the noble kind of politics he wanted America to practice, was Michael Dukakis.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).
Michael Carmichael | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
A military commander tested in wartime, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a Secretary of State, a Vice President Powell would strengthen Obama's candidacy more deeply and more consummately than any other American.
Tony Sachs | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
The odds may be against us, but with a little luck and a lot of good old-fashioned stupidity, we can get to the promised land of failure once again.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Richard Belzer | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
One hopes, most likely in vain, that Lee Atwater's deathbed epiphany of regret would be an object lesson to others. But, alas there are those who have completely ignored any lessons to be gleamed from his dying wishes.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Suspicions about Sen. Obama's true motives have been building over the past few weeks, but not until today have the bloggers called him out for betraying the Democratic Party's losing tradition.
Linda Hirshman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Like the centrism that fueled the Clinton years, minimalism is a philosophy for losers. Democrats were sure losers in those years, so they were probably well-served by a philosophy for losers.
Jackson Williams | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
If we don't like the Second Amendment, then we should agitate to get rid of it in the methods the Founders prescribed. But we might want to think twice.
Mark Green | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
Over the next weeks and three months, there are six lesser known factors that should give Obama a 10-point or larger advantage at the post-Convention Labor Day kickoff.
John McQuaid | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Covering the 1988 presidential campaign, I learned some fundamental lessons about politics. One was that a Democrat must never allow him/herself to be portrayed as less than 100 percent patriotic.
New York Observer | Steve Kornacki | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
The Massachusetts Democratic primary, along with nearly two dozen other primaries and caucuses, was held on Feb. 5. Hillary Clinton won it by 15 point...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
The bad news about our nutrient-starved, 24-hour media environment is that there will be more news cycles dedicated to destroying Obama -- or at least slowing the momentum of his campaign.
Matt Cooper | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Charlie Gibson was unctuous and petty and wrong. If Americans needed more proof that the media elite are rich and out of touch, Gibson gave them more.
David Paul Kuhn | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Reagan, as well as FDR and JFK understood that symbols, narratives, and sets win presidencies. Should Obama not, it will lead to a Dukakis-like moment that could serve as his tattooed slip up.
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Clinton's claim to be the most electable Democratic candidate in 2008 has always seemed flimsy. But in the last couple of weeks it's been blown to smithereens -- and Hillary herself pulled the trigger.
Matt Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
I know Iraq is not Colonial America and Lexington and Concord is not Fallujah and Sadr City. But a film that glorifies martial values is going to be good for the martial candidate.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media
Perhaps feeling threatened by the hotness of Bill Richardson's beard, Obama Girl is back with a brand-new video wherein she once again declares hersel...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
I thought all along that Richardson was just running to be Clinton's v.p. candidate, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that he recognizes the historic direction Obama is trying to take the party.
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media
I'm really tired that the media doesn't take the trouble to put the charges through a filter to measure their actual veracity and significance.
Tony Sachs | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
It's simple. Eight years of peace and prosperity minus marital infidelity and Whitewater equals me, Al Gore. See you January 20.
Tom Alderman | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
The Reality-TV mini-series we call the Presidential Debates is running out of juice. Same questions, same answers endlessly re-looped as the media-candidate interview process grinds on.
Martin Lewis | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
...a winning smile. Here are some other winning smiles.
Larry Abrams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Getting rid of Bush will be good and great thing, but it doesn't make the case for Hillary Clinton. The problem with Hillary is that she doesn't really fit the political moment.
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RJ Eskow | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics