Tim Hames: Don’t believe a word you hear in Denver next week

Mr Obama and the Clintons utterly loathe each other. She (and her husband) continue to believe that she would have been the stronger contender against John McCain (probably true), that she was denied the prize because they were out-hustled in organisational terms, not real votes cast (valid), and that the Illinois Senator is little more [...]

Tales From The 57 States: John Wins in Shaman Rick’s House

It came to pass in the eighth year of the third millennium that a long race decided who became Leader of the Realm of the Fifty-seven States. A position many called The Potus.
Running in this race were two men: John the Warrior, who had long fought for the Realm, and a young scribe whose followers [...]

Obama’s Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light

The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama’s most important administrative leadership experience: heading an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed.
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Froma Harrop: It’s no longer just about Hillary

After hearing her name placed in nomination at the Democrats’ convention next week, Hillary Clinton will no doubt urge her followers to support Barack Obama. What good that gesture will do for the Obama candidacy remains to be seen. Mrs. Clinton has already made it several times, but a new Pew Research Center poll shows [...]

“Housing Problem”

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Why Democrats Lose

Almost a week after the Saddleback Forum, where Barack Obama showed anyone who was watching just how terrible he is without a teleprompter, Progressives have been in full spin mode.
What’s telling (as usual) is how rank-and-file Progressives define what went wrong.
As they see it, the problem is that Rick Warren’s audience is that they are [...]

Woe Is Me, Said the Democrat

By Debra Saunders
In politics, everyone wants to be seen as a mudslinging virgin — who, like King Lear, is “more sinned against than sinning.” Toward that end, Democrats have crafted the conceit that Republicans are attack dogs, while Democratic candidates are not sufficiently ruthless. After years of calling President Bush every name in the book, [...]