The encouraging lesson from Obama's huge win in North Carolina and near-win in Indiana is that perhaps the fear card no longer trumps all others. The Bush presidencies were fueled by what Jonathan Alter of Newsweek recently called, "underinformed voters," explicitly voting against their own economic interests, often for reasons...

Certainly Spring has been unkind to the Obama campaign and his supporters can't just blame Hillary's bottom-feeding anymore. The only bright side to Jeremiah Wright's twisted, egomaniacal schadenfreude is that the media so overplayed it that I can't believe that it will still be news in the fall (even though...

She had her chance at being part of the Dream Team, although not at the top of the ticket as she had hoped, however her Swiftboating of Obama with her "bitter" new ad campaign sank any hope she might have had of rescuing her campaign from abject defeat. I'm not...

Barack Obama isn't an ordinary candidate running an ordinary campaign. He has made it his mission to upend the status quo in Washington so it is not unfair to demand of him a higher standard of integrity than we ask from the other candidates. The danger of optimistic...

I was a kid during Vietnam and my dad, then a captain in the army, a psychiatrist stationed in Detroit, was the guy other guys would beg and act crazy to to avoid the draft. I also grew up on shows like Combat! and The Rat Patrol and on my...

You have more delegates, much more money, you're John McCain to her Mike Huckabee.

So why act as if she's on equal footing?

Because the Clintons are acting as if they are and the Obama camp is letting them. Her floating the idea of him working for her...

Obama's speech just now was magnificent not because he relied on soaring rhetoric but because he eschewed it. He spoke simply and directly about one of the third rails of American politics from his unique vantage point as a black man with white ancestors and the child of an immigrant....

The Clinton campaign is playing the Obama campaign like a fiddle. What makes this all the more amazing is the fact that they are driving the debate from the passenger seat. Obama's handlers should have told him not to take the bait and answer her VP offer. Just ignore it....

He secured at least the VP spot months ago and until Hillary hit back hard he was poised for total victory and is still the odds-on favorite. The 3am spot has gotten way too much ink and didn't run in Ohio at all. Obama's media team handled it brilliantly,...

Look, I voted for Senator Obama here in New York. He's a wonderful man and will make a dynamic and powerful President, but Senator Obama and the Hillary haters out there can cover their ears and shout, "I'm not listening! I'm not listening!" like my six-year-old does when...

That's actually not true. George Bush actually made come true something that I had never even allowed myself to dream. As I've said before I'm only a year younger than Obama, we have several friends in common and like him mainstream black culture often questioned my black bona...

I was a bad dad yet again. On Wednesday night I hunted for Valentine's Day cards for Chet's first-grade class. Ava, at nine, said she was too old. All the drugstores in my New York neighborhood didn't have anymore of those kitschy packs that haven't changed since the '60s:...

"OBAMA-WEBB SWEEP TO VICTORY, " reads the headline Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 in The New York Times.

I've seen the future and thought I'd come back and share the good news. Everyone expected a tough, close race against McCain when Obama elbowed Hillary out of the top spot. For weeks...

I gave money three years ago to his senatorial campaign and personally have never really considered voting for anyone else. I haven't yet advocated for others to vote with me because despite the rancor from zealots in both camps, Obama and Hillary are both centrists Democrats reading from the exact...

The Democratic Presidential race is pure politics between consenting adults and the barbs traded on all sides have been well within the norm of contemporary politicking and positively tea-party genteel compared to past elections in our nation's history. As James Carville put it, they're not campaigning for commencement...

I was ten months old but living only a few blocks away from the Lincoln Memorial the day a quarter of a million civil rights protesters most famously marched on Washington. My dad had walked over to the Mall early so by the afternoon, feeling guilty about leaving...

If you care about rescuing this nation from the short-sighted greed and dangerous arrogance with which the Bush administration has poisoned this country, then you can only rejoice that the Democrats are fielding three such capable candidates.

Then why am I so worried?

Ever since the big...

My daughter and my son, now nine and six, have lived with me since my ex-wife left five years ago, but every Christmas since, except the one when I was briefly engaged and forbidden to, we have all spent together with her family in Social Circle, Georgia.

My ex-wife...

Princesses get a bad rap. I have been a huge fan of Barbara Ehrenreich for years but I think her recent post about princesses misses the point. I was raised in the 1970s by a child psychologist feminist mother and a child psychiatrist father. We were PC before...

Frederick Douglass said it first and said it best. I thought about those words a lot today back on the picket line in front of Viacom in the heart of Times Square, marching laps around our little patch of Broadway in thirty-degree weather as it started to freezing rain. The...