It's 1968 Revisited, And It's Not The Liberals' Year
To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.
To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Here is a fact of life: If you are having a conversation with someone about Obama and Osama, there is a very good chance that someone will slip up somewhere. But honestly, it's really no big deal.
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Maybe because it was a close race, it was harder for Hillary and her supporters to let go. But now she has.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
How open-minded can Bill O'Reilly be if he thinks McClellan doing TV interviews is the equivalent of doing nothing while watching a friend get gang raped?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
CNN's Wolf Blitzer entered the Situation Room to talk about a provocatively written book with its author. Not Scott McClellan! No, no. Pat Buchanan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Hardball opened today with a long look at those rumored to be atop John McCain's shortlist to be Vice President of his Space Trip to the Year 2013: Bo...
Caroline Presno | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
I'm seeimg an interesting trend in my clients during their therapy sessions -- if there were actual diagnoses for this trend, we might use terms like "election mania" or "post-election disorder."
Huffington Post | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
During MSNBC's coverage of the Pennsylvania primary results Tuesday, Pat Buchanan got into a debate with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the significance ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
If you cast your mind back to your childhood, you might recall playing a game with your friends called "Chinese Whispers" or the less ethnocentric var...
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Obama merely described a portion of the population that is wooed and wed every single election cycle only to be divorced almost as soon as the voting booths have closed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics
It was an otherwise normal day in the Land of the McLaughing Group. John got to bellow, "The answer is HILLARY." And nobody minded that they weren't...
August J. Pollak | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media
If you keep MSNBC on, as the day goes on, you start to feel insane because the same stuff is rehashed in a sisyphusian cacophony from dawn to midnight, with some breaks for shows about prisoners and their tattoos.
Buchanan | Pat Buchanan | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
How would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wri...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Asked by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough if criticism of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's relationship with presidential hopeful Barack Obama was something of a ...
Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Things got combative on MSNBC's "Dan Abrams" show Wednesday night during a discussion of Geraldine Ferraro's comments about Barack Obama's race. Pa...
Thinkprogress.org | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
During the coverage of this evening's Florida primary results, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough discussed the impact of John McCain's victory with Pat Buchanan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
There's so much fun to be had playing with the race card! And our media is only now getting around to the most fun games, like say the one that start...
Scott Paul | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
We need an overhaul of our trade relationship with China and more investment in domestic manufacturing to grow jobs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
So, all coronations have been deferred. The story today is of two riveting political comebacks from John McCain and Hillary Clinton. From the standp...
Huff TV | Posted 01.08.2008 | Media
Jessy Tolkan | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Our country's dirty energy consumption and greenhouse gas pollution is embarrassing. We don't need to argue over whether 15% of our electricity comes from clean energy- we need to make sure that 100% of it does.
Huff TV | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
Janet Ritz | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Pat Buchanan faced off against the Energy Action Coalition youth leader with a smile, which accompanied his insistence that global warming, while possibly real, is not as serious as she believed.
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Tony Sachs | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics