Another Clinton Vet Joins Team Obama

Ricki Seidman has just been named communications director for the yet-to-be-picked Vice Presidential nominee. Seidman is a Hillary Clinton loyalist going back to Little Rock and the 1992 Clinton Campaign War Room.

McCain to Cheney: You’re Not Welcome

Per Ed Henry at CNN, the McCain campaign has quietly asked the Vice President — compared to whom President Bush is wildly popular — not to attend the Republican convention in St. Paul next month. Shocking, I know. To the dismay of some on the campaign, they couldn’t disinvite the President, too. Instead, Bush will [...]

In the Arena

Today in Iraq

The complicated reality of the war in Iraq is that everyone has been wrong about it at some point. There is a hierarchy of wrongitude, with those who favored the war in the first place, and continue to think it was a good idea, and want to establish permanent bases there–the Krauthammer school–being wrongest. My [...]

The Tire Gauge Reconsidered

Our colleague Michael Grunwald looks at the claim that the Republicans are scoffing at, and decides Barack Obama is right.