Kerry

Reading The Pictures: McCain's War Cred Goes Belly Up

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-07-02-mccainhanoi.jpgUntil Sunday, this well-known October 1967 image of McCain being pulled from a lake near Hanoi was used to convey heroism and elicit admiration and empathy.

Why Running "On the Record" Is Harder Than You Think

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics


Thomas Lipscomb

To understand how we got ourselves in the middle of an election with so little information and so much suspicion, we need to review the 2004 election issues that revolved around John Kerry.

Sam Stein

Kerry's Vietnam Allies Go After Major Swift Boat Funder

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics


It is a lesson in just how persistent and irritating smear campaigns can be. Nearly four years after the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth trotted out a s...

America's Image and Race Beyond Black and White

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


Sam Sedaei

The world's grievances with the US have little to do with its history of slavery. Most of the world is more concerned with how America treats other ethnicities, beyond black.

Obama vs. Wright: A Silver Lining For Democrats?

Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


Sandy Goodman

Some have praised Wright as a "hero" to whom African-Americans "owe a great debt." In fact, exactly the opposite is true. His spiteful divisiveness has done all Americans a historic disservice.

Reading The Pictures: The Wimp Factor-y

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-04-21-shaw_kerry_wimp.jpgIt's not that "Obama is starting to look more like Kerry," so much as "The Factory" is cranking up the campaign to make it look that way.

Debates Are Not About Issues.

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

They are about: Who Is the Best Candidate? Who can Win? Ever since the first televised debate between Kennedy & Nixon, voters have often judged can...

The Last Soldier to Die for a Mistake: Vietnam and Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

At the fifth anniversary of the attack on Iraq -- marked, among other things, by last weekend's "Winter Soldier" hearings and the approach of 4000 U.S...

Sam Stein

NOW Head Described Treatment Of Clinton A "Gang Bang"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics


Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women, gained a bit of notoriety on Monday when she called ...

Sam Stein

After Kerry Endorses, Political World Waits For Kennedy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics


With one Massachusetts senator throwing his weight into the Democratic presidential race today, anticipation now mounts for the other to follow suit. ...

Help! My Publisher is a Greedy Corporation!

David Feige | Posted 11.07.2007 | Media


David Feige

It's hard to match the schadenfreude that comes from reading a headline like "Conservative Authors Sue Publisher," particularly when the publisher is the odious Regnery.

The Clintons' Budding Dynasty

Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

In a country of 300 million we are limited to choosing between an inbred clan of increasingly dumb offspring, the Bushes, and an intellectually superior but faintly corrupt budding line of rulers, the Clintons.


 

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