He won. He not only won by not losing, but he also won on points–and on demeanor, and on quickness, if not quite substance (although this was a fairly substantive debate on both sides). A few points: –On health care: she’s right and he’s wrong. His implication that she would force people “who can’t afford [...]
There were contrasting columns in the nation’s leading newspapers today. In the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne agrees with Clark Hoyt, the New York Times’ public editor, that the Times disastrously and unprofessionally injected unproven allegations of a sex scandal into its quad-authored story about John McCain’s ties to a telecom lobbyist. But Dionne goes on [...]
Here‘s my Q&A with Ralph Nader today, a shortened verision of which will appear in the dead tree edition this week.
I remember clearly the first time I heard Barack Obama’s middle name. It was November 28, 2006, and the Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers was on Hardball. “Count me down as someone who underestimates Bar-Ack Hu-Sane Oh-Bama,” said Rogers, exaggerating his southern accent for effect. “Put me down as somebody that counts him out.” Rogers was [...]
At a Washington DC breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor this morning reporters did their utmost to get Clinton senior advisor Harold Ickes to admit the campaign has failed to meet even their own goals laid out in near daily conference calls since Super Tuesday.* Ickes played the expectations game like a maestro. One [...]
With the end of the primaries in sight, the Great Polarization has begun. John McCain talks about Barack Obama’s “most liberal” ranking in the Senate, while Hillary Clinton and Obama describe McCain as the 100-year warrior. “We just have fundamental difference in philosophy,” McCain explained Friday in Indiana. “I’m a conservative Republican, and they’re liberal [...]
Says the campaign manager: We didn’t bring this up, YOU brought this up. Statement by Maggie Williams, Campaign Manager: “Enough. “If Barack Obama’s campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and [...]
Hillary staffers have a serious complaint: Reporters not covering Obama’s FUNNY OUTFITS. The Obama campaign responds: “On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election. This is [...]
