On Obama.
Forty years ago Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis. A few hours later, Robert Kennedy delivered this brief speech to an African-American audience in Indianapolis. He spoke without notes, without consulting his aides. He quoted Aeschylus. I can’t listen to it without feeling shivers, fighting back tears, even now. If you haven’t heard [...]
The good people of NBC News, where political coverage is led by Chuck Todd, the old Hotline handicapper, have put out a must-read sketch of the coming electoral map. If anything else, the predictions give some credence to the arguments of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They certainly do appear to have different strengths [...]
Yesterday, James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, struck out against the candidacy of John McCain, in a statement sent to the Wall Street Journal. “I have seen no evidence that Sen. McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing conservatives into his fold. To the contrary, he seems intent on driving [...]
In the issue of dead-tree TIME that hits the newsstands tomorrow, I’ve written this story on Hillary Clinton’s biggest backer–and most formidable weapon– in Pennsylvania. It includes this criticism of how the media is doing its job: In a recent appearance on Fox News—not exactly considered friendly territory for the Democrats—he congratulated the network for [...]
