A Talk with Gail Collins on Obama
I am excited about Obama's project of building a new coalition based on finding rational common ground on controversial issues. The question is this: common ground with who?
I am excited about Obama's project of building a new coalition based on finding rational common ground on controversial issues. The question is this: common ground with who?
Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
My interest is not to derail Obama's campaign from within, but to keep a place at the table for his activist base.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Imagine how inspired you would have been if, instead of turning and running, Obama interrupted his campaign schedule to lead the filibuster against the FISA legislation.
Art Brodsky | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
By backing off and sitting back, Obama has given the press a ready-made story line the Republicans are all to eager to exploit.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
It is one thing for a presumptive nominee to adjust policy positions to reach out to constituencies he wants to bring in to his coalition. Warrantless wiretapping has no constituency.
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
WHO: 9/11 Commission Member Richard Ben-Veniste WHAT: Press conference call to to Discuss McCain Advisor Charlie Black's Comments on Terrorist Attac...
Steve Benen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Now that it's time for the general election, and the right is desperate to smear Barack Obama, the GOP has rediscovered OBL.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
Withing days of the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees, Gingrich and Giuliani pushed their way into the debate, and began to argue that liberal views on Habeas Corpus would kill Americans.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allo...
Joseph Nye | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
It is difficult to think of any single act that would do more to restore America's soft power than the election of Obama to the presidency.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Republicans clearly think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the chink in Sen. Barack Obama's national security armor. In its rapid response emails, the McCain ca...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Remember McCain's respectful campaign? He doesn't. McCain has all but declared a President Obama would be unfit to defend the United States from -- ...
American Prospect | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
When Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama met in California for the Jan. 31 debate, their back-and-forth resembled their many previous encoun...
Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Much of the reaction to Sen. Clinton's 3 a.m. ad is from people who have never been involved in foreign policy and certainly never had to field such a call in a crisis situation.
Huffington Post | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: John McCain's camp has responded to Obama, saying his speech fails "National Security 101". On McCain's Iran-Al-Qaeda flap: "To say that inv...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
The Clinton camp has issued a memo criticizing Obama's work on national security issues at the beginning of this week's 5th anniversary of the Iraq Wa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
For yet another day on the campaign trail, the topic of national security, and the respective readiness of Democratic candidates to be commander-in-ch...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
Over the past few days, Sen. Barack Obama has hit back against attacks on his national security credentials in part by noting that, when it came time ...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
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Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 02.28.2008 | Media
The media should be paying attention here, to more than just the first big skirmish of the putative general election, which reframed the foreign policy distinctions between the two candidates.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics