McCain's Warped Worldview
A lesson McCain should have learned is that the world is a complex place, that today's enemies may be tomorrow's negotiating partners -- as Obama has at times dared to suggest.
A lesson McCain should have learned is that the world is a complex place, that today's enemies may be tomorrow's negotiating partners -- as Obama has at times dared to suggest.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media
If you don't believe that they're not calling him a terrorist because he's white, let me ask you this question -- what if his name was Sheik al-Abdullah Muhammad?
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
I have a confession to make. I actually watch the network news. Maybe I should enter into a twelve-step program or something. But I don't watch the ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama made a campaign promise to visit the state of Alaska before the election. And what better time than right now to follow through on this promise?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
McCain and Gramm are financial radicals who have taken over the system. The idea of putting them back in charge is absolutely unthinkable.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...
Kayla Webley | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home
In Republican-dominated East Tennessee conservation and environmentalism are propelled less by Al Gore-style inconvenient truths than by biblically mandated calls to stewardship.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reported last year on the aggressive tactics Republican senators were using to obstruct an unprecedented number of bil...
Paul Helmke | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Alaska is going to be very close this year. This stems from Republican office-holders apparently trying to take the "first in political corruption" award away from Louisiana.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
So what would happen if the Electoral College tied? Well, it goes to the House of Representatives. And since the Democrats have an advantage in the House, you'd think "President Obama." But you'd be wrong.
William Bradley | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
A day spent recently following McCain around California points up how difficult a task he has in store. And how short he remains of the mark on "rebranding" a Republican Party.
Robert Scheer | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Will the real John McCain stand up? Actually, I don't expect him to, now that he is the Republican presidential candidate, he is pandering to the irrationalities that drive his party.
Victor LaPorte | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
We have heard the opposition's argument against the 21st Century GI Bill time and time again: At a time when the United States Military is fighting ...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
I can spare Sen. Obama a lot of wasted time if he truly wants to visit the real Iraq -- not the Baghdad that John McCain wants him to see, and upon which to judge Iraq.
Victor LaPorte | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Support our troops and veterans. Support the 21st Century GI Bill!
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
President George W. Bush, asked in a press conference why Republicans in the House and Senate are increasingly defying him, proven by the fact that do...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Last Thanksgiving, I took a vacation from the blog and (while I was gone) I ran a series of speech transcripts from all eight of the Democratic candid...
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
There is no better measure of the failure of Bush's foreign policy than that the American taxpayers who paid for the invasion of Iraq are now being rewarded with skyrocketing prices at the pump.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
John McCain "can't win" if he's seen as "the Bush third term" -- this, from a Republican?
Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home
Many black and brown voters self-identify as socially conservative. The race-based tactics of the Southern strategy and the nasty anti-immigrant tone, however, make it all but certain these voters will remain Democrats .
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
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Robert Scheer | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics