Why doesn’t Obama hit back harder? This is why, writes our colleague Michael Grunwald: Race is the elephant in the room of the 2008 campaign. In West Virginia’s primary, one of every four Hillary Clinton voters actually admitted to pollsters that race was a factor in their vote; that may be an Appalachian outlier, but [...]
I have a new piece up at the redesigned Time.com about the political strategy I call “Outrage and Outrageousness,” in which political campaigns play on emotion and shock to cut through the media clutter. McCain has been milking this cow for weeks, though the Obama is quickly trying to catch up, with a new ad [...]
Our own esteemed Justin Fox has been adding his rapidly-decreasing-in-real-dollar terms two cents to the story of the day; his counter-intuitive take on the legislative hijinks that led up to the crisis caught my eye: Without Glass-Steagall repeal, Bank of America wouldn’t be able to buy Merrill Lynch, the only bit of arguably positive news [...]
John McCain is up with an ad touting his “experience” to deal with the financial crisis. But no specific experience is cited–which is attributable to the fact that McCain has been a happily orthodox Republican when it comes to financial regulation these past 26 years. He’s against it. He’s against Washington telling you how to [...]
In today’s riveting second installment of Bart Gellman’s new book on Dick Cheney, the Washington Post adds further detail to that now-famous hospital bed scene in which then-Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to re-authorize the Bush Administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance program: Was Comey going to sit there and watch a barely conscious man make his [...]
