President Obama doesn’t take mulligans when he plays golf. The same cannot be said for the way he governs.
Presidential campaigns are so 2008, like boyfriend jeans or Tila Tequila. If you want to win the White House these days, “Super PACs” are the thing to have.
When you are White House Chief of Staff, or any senior administration official really, you never want to hear the President’s press secretary say publicly you are doing a good job. That’s because there is only one reason for the press secretary to praise you: Someone thinks you are messing up.
TIME recaps every absurd minute of the GOP's prime-time food fight on CNN.
Perhaps the only thing that beats a politician in chaps is that same politician walking through a sausage factory, all the while looking good and not at all phony. Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose long political career, is filled with high quality and effective television spots. Sometimes he is the Marlboro Man. Sometimes he [...]
President Obama reached into the old prop bag Monday, waving around a printed copy of his American Jobs Act fastened together with a fat black binder clip. “This is the bill that Congress needs to pass,” he said, holding the stack of paper aloft for the cameras. “No games. No politics. No noise.” Just good [...]
Everywhere President Obama traveled on Sunday, he was asked to remember. “Never forget,” read the signs held by a half dozen family members of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero, the words framing photocopied snapshots, or blown up portraits, of loved ones who died a decade earlier. “Forget me not,” said the young niece of firefighter [...]
A few minutes into his address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night, President Obama posed what sounded like a modest challenge to the U.S. Congress: “The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy.” But [...]
In 2008, I found myself in the Crystal City office of Doug Holtz-Eakin, the top economic adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain. When talk turned to Social Security, he said a version of what just about every serious fiscal analyst says these days: This is not that hard of a nut to crack. Sure [...]
0 minutes. Presidential debates come and go. But tonight’s GOP debate, the fourth in a series too numerous to bear, is a special treat. “We are all gathered under the wings of Air Force One,” says NBC’s Brian Williams, referring to the great phallus of American presidential might that sits in the hangar at the [...]
