OK, here's the thing to focus on as this passing moment mounts to its climax: John told Elizabeth about the affair long before he declared for the presidency. Today's brou-ha-ha is old news to them. She knew about it the whole time they were out there, displaying their marriage...

First listen to Heath in the Batman trailer:

Then listen to Al doing AL:

Could this be an accident?

(Thanks to my sister in Vermont for noticing this bizarre convergence)

This is SO incredibly stupid. I can't believe it. I am a New Yorker subscriber so I know they have been supportive of Obama all along. Their hearts are in the right place.

But where are their heads? What country are they living in?

A truly classic...

I would question that he is moving. He was always in the middle. More on that later.

The issue that matters now is whether his perceived move is undercutting his brand and actually making it harder for him to win. One thing is for sure. Obama and his top advisors...

If there were an Urgent button on HuffPost I would use it for this post.

Obama's undercutting his brand is he? He's moving to the center?

DUH!

Don't get me wrong. Attack him from the left. That's a good thing. The more MoveOn whacks him, the harder...

There's been this ongoing allusion to Lincoln, from the beginning. Barack announced in Springfield, Illinois remember -- and he referenced Doris Kearns Goodwin's book about Lincoln's Team of Rivals in at least one discussion of why Hillary would be seriously considered for VP.

How about Hillary for Secretary of...

He should reiterate his commitment to refusing money from lobbyists and special interest PACS, emphasize that the DNC is following his lead and challenge the Republicans to do the same. Then he should say that the whole point of the public financing legislation was to limit the influence of...

If the situation today were precisely reversed, if Hillary were in Barack's place and she were in his--what would you be saying about Florida and Michigan, what would you be saying about superdelegates overriding the popular vote, what would you be saying about electability in the swing states?

If...

After tonight's elections in Kentucky and Oregon it looks more and more like this is a clash of world views between two groups of democratic primary voters: those who didn't go to college and those who did. The former are voting overwhelmingly for Hillary. The latter are voting overwhelmingly for...

Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare appeasement, meaning Nazis and Neville Chamberlain in 1938-39 -- that exhausted neo-con trope -- to our current situation...

Remember when Barack first put himself forward? The Obama's not black enough kerfuffle among the old guard civil rights activists? Most of them slowly came around, driven partly by the Clintons' willingness to marginalize Barack after South Carolina but mostly because -- it was just crazy not to. After...

I haven't been the only one to speculate along these lines, but I was one of the first to lay it out. Originally, I was just funning, enjoying the latitude of a blog post, free associating into a possibility that could never be confirmed.

But yikes. This...

The New York Times has a lot to answer for these last eight years. The way the Grey Lady rolled over for Bush on the Iraq invasion and WMD, just for starters. But I know I am not alone in noticing how extraordinary have been the implicit insights and commentaries...

This is incredible. It shows just how low the Clintons are stooping as they battle to return to the throne they think belongs to them.

Hillary chooses to do an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. This paper has a lot of influence over Reagan Democrats in Western Pennsylvania --...

I'm glad Richardson is endorsing Obama. It would have been nice if he had done it before Texas. Was the Obama campaign so confident back then that they wouldn't guarantee the job Richardson was asking for? The fact that the endorsement is coming now tends to confirm my gut...

It is already clear that Obama's Tuesday speech could not have been better. It is being justly compared, by knowledgeable people, to some of the great political speeches in American history. Whether it will register on the public consciousness in that way is another question.

Because there's this problem:...

Here's what the Obama campaign should do at some point -- maybe not now, but at some point, especially if the Clintons, aided by Geraldine Ferraro, keep their racist kneecapping going as crunch time comes. Especially in light of the Spitzer meltdown.

He should say, in that inimitable comic...

This delicious piece of trash reminds everybody of the yuck factor that haunts the Clinton Restoration movement. It's subliminal, but that could make it even better. Obama's awful challenge right now is to remind Democrats of how McCain will destroy the Clintons in the general election without having Obama...

OK, as I said the other day, Hillary ended the last debate with dignity. She showed a genuine commitment to something larger than a Clinton Restoration. But I understand why she has come roaring back since -- it sounded so much like a concession, she owes it to her...

After that cheap and prepared remark about Obama Xeroxing words, which made her visibly uncomfortable even as she delivered it, Hillary came through big time at the end of this debate. The genuine relief, the authentic generosity of her basic motives, showed on her face as she reached out her...