Wherever John McCain goes, he rails against pork barrel spending, including the millions of dollars that the federal government spends to study the DNA of grizzly bears. “I don’t know if it was a paternity issue or criminal,” the Republican nominee deadpans. And the bear scientists never fight back. They have just silently taken the …
The thing about a viral video is you have to want to watch it. Unlike a television ad, which arrives without consent, the web spot requires a mouse click, or an email from a friend telling you this thing is not a total waste of time.
With this in mind, judge the success of the latest offering from the McCain campaign, a two-minute …
For those who decided to sleep through the time change, here is what Hillary Clinton Campaign surrogate Ed Rendell said this morning on Meet the Press:
TIM RUSSERT: Governor Rendell, if, in fact, Barack Obama goes to the convention in Colorado in August with the most elected delegates, having won more contests and a higher popular
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I didn’t mention the Huck-a-burger, or the terrifying Huck-a-flights, or the hard drinking ways of the Huck-a-staff, but here is my story looking back at the Mike Huckabee that was, and will no doubt be again.
Victor Bout, one of the world’s most famous and wanted arms traffickers, was arrested Thursday in Thailand. The guy has been tied to efforts to fuel blood-soaked wars in Angola and Liberia, Afghanistan and Columbia, and many others. He has long been blacklisted by the United States Treasury Department and signaled out by the United …
So much ink is spilled interpreting the race and sex dynamics of the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton often wins women, Barack Obama inevitably wins blacks. Identity politics lives on. But my former boss, Salon.com’s Walter Shapiro, points to another demographic trend that came into striking relief in the Ohio exit polls: The age
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I have a story up today about the remarkable two-month run of luck that made John McCain the Republican nominee. To wit:
Almost everything broke his way: Mike Huckabee won Iowa, crippling the powerhouse campaign of Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani abandoned New Hampshire, allowing his moderate supporters to shift to McCain. Fred Thompson
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Note: As has happened before, Joe Klein posted on this as I was writing. Don’t miss his take below.
In the course of 24-hours, the McCain campaign has gone from coasting towards the GOP nomination to readopting a defensive crouch. The reason: His endorsement yesterday by Texas pastor John Hagee, an influential televangelist with some …
It’s a Hollywood maxim: If you’ve got a hit, do a sequel. So will.i.am, fresh off his blockbuster “Yes We Can” video for Barack Obama, is back with another. This time he calls it “We Are The Ones.”
Like most sequels, it fails to capture the full magic of the original. It has more Hollywood stars (Ryan Phillippe, Jon Leguizamo, …
Back when I was a cub reporter at a newspaper bureau in Easthampton, Mass., my colleague and I would play this game: First, come up with an obscure 10-dollar word, then see which one of us could get it past our editors and into the paper. The planning was always more fun than the execution. I think the best I ever achieved was “dun,” …
The House Oversight Committee has just asked the Justice Department to investigate Roger Clemens for perjury and making false statements.
We believe that his testimony in a sworn deposition on February 5, 2008, and at a hearing on February 13, 2008, that he never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone, warrants further
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Charlie Black is a lobbyist, and he’s kind of a big deal. He runs an entire firm, BKSH & Associates, that represents companies as varied as General Motors, AT&T and the steel industry. He is hard wired to the Republican power grid, the kind of guy who is on the short list people call when they want to find out what is happening in the …
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 …
