With Friends Like This…

The Rio Grande Guardian reports that one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent supporters in the Valley showed up at a rally this morning … for Barack Obama: State Rep. Aaron Peña, who, in print and on TV has been a leading outreach activist in the Valley for Clinton, shocked many Friday morning when he sat [...]

A Daughter Weighs In

Sometimes it can be shocking to remember that politics actually involves real people. This was posted Wednesday night, just as the New York Times story broke, by Meghan McCain on her blog, McCainBlogette.com: Life is all about perspective. Having grown up in politics, I know it’s an industry that, for all intents and purposes, is [...]

In the Arena

Today in Iraq…and Tomorrow

There’s an odd disconnect about the situation in Iraq right now. On the one hand, you have the scrupulous military observer Anthony Cordesman–cited here by Charles Krauthammer–reporting significant progress on the ground, which is no doubt true despite the daily spray of gore. If you want to define the war as John McCain does–the fight [...]

McCain Moves On

With the world still sorting through the implications of the lady lobbyist sorta-scandal, John McCain got back on the trail today as if nothing had happened–a 30-minute town hall in Indianapolis, followed by about 30-minutes of questions from the audience, and nary a mention of the New York Times story. (Before he was introduced, someone [...]