Democrats
What Do We Do With Lieberman?
Sunday, November 16th, 2008As Democrats continue getting their house in order–pun intended–one of the most vexing questions that the party faces is what to do with Joe Lieberman. Lieberman who as recently as 2000 was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and on whose behalf Barack Obama campaigned in 2006, was extremely critical of Obama during this year’s presidential race. [...]
Rabid Mad Attack Dog!
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Joe Is Right
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Video of Barack Obama’s Speech in Berlin
Friday, July 25th, 2008“A World That Stands As One”
People of the world – look at Berlin!
Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.
Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan [...]
RP Roundup: Is Ed Towns on his way out?
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Today’s edition of the RP Roundup takes a look at a local campaign that has been stirring some buzz on the internet(s). New York’s 10th district features a race between incumbent Ed Towns and challenger Kevin Powell. Towns has been in congress for twenty-five years and during that time his ability to shape his district [...]
The Right Is Where We Go Wrong
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008There has been a lot of discussion recently about Barack Obama’s move to “the center.” The concern as Ariana Huffington explains in a post on HuffPost is that by doing so Obama threatens to alienate his core supporters, legitimizes many of the right-wing policies that have bankrupted this nation, and most pressingly, this approach [...]
Can Dixiecrats become Obamacrats?
Monday, June 30th, 2008Invisible blog directs our attention to this SF Chronicle article exploring Obama’s chances in the south in November:
“I think we’re going to see the largest African American turnout in the history of the country this fall,” said Merle Black, a leading scholar of Southern politics at Emory University and author with his twin brother, Earl, [...]
CNN Political Ticker: “Obama forced to flash ID”
Sunday, June 29th, 2008CNN’s Political Ticker provides us with this week’s where on earth have you candidate:
“It’s always a rush in the morning, everyone’s trying to come in quickly,” Perez-Tamayo said. “She asked him for his last name and he said ‘Obama,’ then she asked him for his first name.”
“It was very funny, she then realized who he [...]
Pick Pocket?
Saturday, June 28th, 2008This cartoon by Michael Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily says it all: support from the Clintons comes at a cost. She’ll support Obama if she gets some money for it. Dodd, Biden, Richardson, Edwards, the other former candidates have all expressed their support with no strings attached. Clinton has done so only by asking that [...]
The Root’s VP Mock Draft
Friday, June 27th, 2008Pundits Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Marc Lamont Hill go tete a tete on Obama’s prospective VP candidates:
It looks like Barack needs our help. The Obama VP search team lost senior Democratic strategist Jim Johnson after revelations that he received favorable lending terms from Countrywide. Since neither of us are getting any special rates on credit and [...]
What Ever Happened to the Republicans
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Jeff, I do not know about you, I’m still open to public-financing, as are a lot of artist-practictioners throughout this country who could use some of the financial support thrown behind Barack Obama during this campaign season. In an ideal world the money turned down by Obama and potentially McCain would be re-distributed to fund [...]
