Eleven and a half months ago – and God, I can’t believe it’s been that long – I watched Barack Obama rally a crowd of nearly 3,000 at Columbia, South Carolina’s convention center. It was the week after he’d entered the race and pundits were still amazed at the size of the audiences he could [...]
A brief written account here. And here’s a video of McCain telling Phil Gramm about how he came to ask for ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me” as his exit music. (He mentions “Johnny B. Goode” as the usual number; they also, for the record — and as my piece reports — used the theme [...]
The Washington Post has a lengthy oped today from Frederick Kagan, General Jack Kean and Michael O’Hanlon about the “success” of the surge. And while it’s more nuanced than the simplistic–We’re Succeeding!–line that John McCain is peddling on the campaign trail, it is still blindly and deceptively optimistic, given the staggering complexities of the situation [...]
Politico.com has a behind-the-scenes look at the Clinton ground game by Las Vegas Sun reporters J. Patrick Coolican and Michael J. Mishak.
Barack Obama at Ebeneezer Baptist Church. Rather than merely linking to it, I thought it would be appropriate to publish every word. I do this in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the greatest moral leader of my lifetime: The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of [...]
