My piece about Person of the Year runner-up David Petraeus.
A message about the other America that somehow manages to be mostly hopeful.
Chris Dodd may have missed crucial stump time in Iowa in order to stage his filibuster of the telcom immunity provision in the FISA bill. But it paid off. Harry Reid pulled the bill on Monday, which counts as a big victory for Dodd. And the netroots rewarded Dodd’s efforts with an outpouring of support [...]
Hillary’s contribution to yule log: Not a bad ad, really, though who labels their gifts with what’s on the inside of them? Or maybe she’s giving something to “Universal Pre-K”… Obama’s: Personally, I’m voting for the two little girls. And, on a home-spun note, Ron Paul’s: I think it might be first time I’ve seen [...]
McKinney for President www.runcynthiarun.org NEWS RELEASE For immediate release: December 16, 2007 Contact: media-requests@runcynthiarun.org Cynthia McKinney Announces Presidential Campaign Video News Release Available Today at 6 PM more after the jump
The chin-stroking among pundits over the Clinton campaign’s “decision” to work on making her “likable” is particularly amusing considering that we’ve been having this conversation for, uhm, over a decade. Even weirder is that serious political journalists can discuss this “problem” without considering the kind of writing they do about her. Because you know what [...]
Off the record, rival campaigns are calling Huckabee’s put-the-Christ-back-in-Christmas ad “brilliant.” (More than one campaign used that exact same word.) And, it’s true, as an ad, it sells Huck well — and (this is the brilliant part) — makes Mitt Romney look like a Grinch. As a political ad it leaves something to be desired. [...]
You mean to tell us that White House lawyers, led by then-counsel Alberto Gonzales, and including Dick Cheney’s legal enabler, David Addington, played a bigger role in the CIA torture tapes episode than the administration has acknowledged? No way!! UPDATE: After objections from the White House, the New York Times has corrected the subhead to [...]
Oh, never mind. A few days back in this space, I offered up a theory that Joe Lieberman’s endorsement of John McCain came at a good moment, because New Hampshire independents were suddenly showing an interest in voting in the Republican primary, rather than the Democratic one. But in a later conversation, Andy Smith, who [...]
If you watched him on the Today Show this morning, you might have a new appreciation for why Mike Huckabee is surging both in both Iowa and in national polls in the race for the Republican nomination. In an interview with Meredith Viera, Huckabee turned the hubub over the “floating cross” in his Christmas ad [...]
