Presidency

The New Yorker Got it Right

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The great danger is that the lies and maliciousness the Obama slander sites busily fan could or has had some resonance with some voters, especially the much fought-over independents.

Early Clues Ignored That Obama Would Be McCain's Siamese Twin On the Big Ticket Issues

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It's getting harder and harder to find much difference between presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain...

Question for NARAL Pro Choice America: Please Explain Your Tortured Defense of Obama's Flop on Abortion Rights

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

You have done an unconscionable political somersault to rationalize his back flip on abortion rights. Why is it so difficult for NARAL to publicly express disappointment with Obama?

The Wesley Clark "Scandal:" Democrats Get Sucked Into the Same Old Republican Trap

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

In the past couple of weeks Obama has reversed course on a number of issues in a centrist ploy to out-McCain McCain. Be careful, Barack, that and a few more episodes in the wuss-suitand you'll be waking up empty-handed November 5th.

Nader Talks Black

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Nader asked rhetorically "Is it because he wants to talk white" as to why Obama supposedly doesn't take hard stances on issues, but he didn't say how he thinks he should talk to avoid sounding white.

Squealing on the Left At Obama's Back Flips

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Some are disappointed with him because they had an inflated, starry-eyed hope that he was the man who would magically undue Bush's wreckage. This expectation was unfair to Obama.

By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Leigh Solomon

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.

Obama's Beat Up on Black Males Fans Old Stereotypes

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama takes the worst of the worst behavior of some black men and publicly hurls that out as the warped standard of black America.

Huckabee's Admonition Not to Demonize Obama Will Fall on Deaf Ears

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

When things really heat up in the fall, the 527 committees will have a storehouse of privately funneled dollars to slam Obama on any and every big and petty issue they choose.

The Greatest Unknown Scandal of Our Time

Allan Lichtman | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics


Allan Lichtman

The 2000 presidential election was not decided by hanging chads, recounts, a flawed felon list, or intervention by the Supreme Court. It was decided b...

The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

This debate continues to rage -- and the debate is even sillier when one considers that science has long since debunked the notion of a pure racial type.

Obama Assassination Exhibit May Be a Hoax, But Fears of Assassination are Real

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Hoax, cheap stunt, crank, crackpot, racist, and sick, were the apt terms tossed at so-called artist Yazmany Arboleda for his grotesquely named near ...

Executive Privilege: Let Congress's Contempt Suit Proceed

Emily Berman and Aziz Huq | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics


Emily Berman and Aziz Huq

The executive is assigned the tools to respond to danger -- which also makes it the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight.

Clinton and RFK Deserve Better

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Her Kennedy remark, apology and clarification, won't mean much. It will only increase the drumbeat calls for her to withdraw. Clinton and RFK deserve better and neither will get it.

The Answer: Wisdom in Washington

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


Stephen H. Dinan

The challenges on our nation's agenda are simply too large for the principles of change and wisdom to exclude the other and are why Obama and Clinton need to combine as a single ticket.

Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The overwhelming rejection of Obama by blue collar, rural, and non-college educated in West Virginia, all Democrats, is no longer cause for private worry for Obama but grave public fear.

Superdelegates Must Tell Color of Change What it Can Do With its Silly Vote for Obama Petition

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The assumption that all blacks scream with one voice for Obama is foolish, arrogant, and racially myopic.

Pennsylvania Outcome Won't Sway Superdelegates But Money Will

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Politics being politics, money and favoritism are making a mockery of the ideal of letting superdelegates decide a nominee purely on their conscience and the best interests of the party.

The Biggest Popularity Contest: The Presidency

Donna Fish | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home


Donna Fish

http://nymag.com/news/features/46011/ This article recently published in New York Magazine called The Feminist Reawakening is all of course, about Hi...

Ten Troubling Questions I Asked Obama to Answer before McCain Asks Them

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Here are ten troubling questions for Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama that he'd be wise to answer coming from me. If he's the Democra...

Dear John: It's Now Time to Endorse Hillary

Will Bower | Posted 03.15.2008 | Home


Will Bower

Barack Obama -- for all his many strengths and merits -- is no longer an electable candidate in his 2008-bid for the White House. That's why, Senator Edwards, you need to through your weight behind Clinton now.

Reading The Pictures: Getting That Endorsement Off On The Right Foot: Sneak Peek At "43's" White House Scrapbook

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

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Reading The Pictures: McCain's Deathly Bling

Michael Shaw | Posted 02.06.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-02-06-20080206McCPhoTIME350_fp.jpgWhat is it going to take -- both for the media, and the larger public -- not to automatically turn into sheep whenever and however anyone invokes the name of "the troops?"

Obama-Clinton vs. Clinton-Obama

Paul Abrams | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics


Paul Abrams

Hillary's "35 years of experience" is primarily in policy, not executive functions. That's a good role for a vice president.

Obama Gives Us Everything Hillary Could -- And Much More

Paul Abrams | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics


Paul Abrams

There is nothing the Clintons bring to the election or the presidency that Barack Obama does not.


 

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