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In the comment thread under Eight reasons why Obama should not choose Clinton as his running mate in `08, a reader raises an idea I''ve heard before: Hillary Clinton would not accept an offer to be Barack Obama's running mate because she thinks he'll lose in the fall and she wants to run again in...
The truth is being demonstrated in Southwest Asia as I write this post If I were not an American citizen, I would be laughing daily at the foolishness of the typical Yank. As it is, I'm disgusted.As the world undergoes a realignment of the geo-political power structure, the American population is...
Before the dust can settle on the Democratic National Convention in August, the party has to settle on a candidate and settle its differences. After more than a year and a half on the campaign trail, fueled by an unprecedented total half-billion dollars, worn by 16-hour- plus days on buses and...
In light of the networks echoing Obama-campaign hypersensitivity on how Bush was allegedly comparing Obama to Nazi appeasers before the Knesset, as liberals suggest this is the lowest campaign tactic in years, talk-show hosts will probably notice that on The Huffington Post, it's apparently fine...
Barack Obama entered a particular pantheon when his speeches began to generate such attendance and enthusiasm that they became known as "rallies." It's the pantheon that also includes Howard Dean, Gary Hart, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, Kennedys Bobby and John, and Adlai Stevenson -- the...
By John Rentoul Terrific article in The Atlantic on the extraordinary fund-raising success of the Barack Obama campaign. Funny stuff, money, especially in America, Brobdingnag of revolutionary capitalism, where the giants of each wave eat their parents: IBM, Microsoft, Google....
Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet. In the late 1960s the media placed the halo on Robert Kennedy, the tragic dynast whose antiwar and civil rights credentials made him in life - as he remains to...
Gerard Baker:Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet. But to prove that these were by no means necessary preconditions for the honour, it was conferred a few years later on Jimmy Carter, the plodding...
Lampe is lying and repeating a Democrat talking point. There have been numerous cases of proven voter fraud both here in Missouri and abroad. Anyone remember the ACORN group who were convicted just last year of fraudently registering people? What about the irregularties in St. Louis doing the...
I have always liked Gary Hart, and, when I have met him, came away impressed that he was a thoughtful person. That said, he has a long diatribe against John McCain, in which he falls into the now tired condescending trope of the sinister neocons who, as quasi-neo-Nazis, took over a clueless...
