Drudge is calling Obama ‘the nominee.’ It’s not a done deal, but it now seems inevitable thanks to a decisive win in North Carolina and a near draw in Indiana. The aftermath though, will certainly focus more on last night’s loser.
Hillary canceled her media appearances this morning. Obviously had she not done that, she could [...]
Andrew Sullivan is one of the best and most accomplished bloggers. Yet lately he seems to be lost in the deep and unforgiving well that is Obama-mania. Now I am a proud supporter of Obama, but not narrowly so. I post on topics other than just the election and Obama. Reading Sullivan’s blog, on [...]
Numerically the Democratic primary is over. I’ll spare you the minutia, but Hillary can’t catch up to Obama in delegates, which, unless we’re going to toss out the rules, is the only metric that counts.
Unlike some other rabid Obama supporters (yes, I’m talking about you, Keith), I’m not calling for Hillary to get out of [...]
WSJ rolled out an article Saturday on the rise and significance of mega-regions — essentially making the case that they are the global economy:
The real driving force of the world economy is a new and incredibly powerful economic unit: the mega-region.
Extending far beyond a single core city and its surrounding suburbs, a mega-region is an [...]
Obama is under fire for telling the truth about small town America — they’ve been left behind:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the [...]
Obama’s speech was one of the best — and most frank — political speeches in recent memory. It was deep in many respects: race, class, and religion being the most noticeable. I was particularly struck by one passage on our political discourse though:
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics [...]
The Department of Defense quietly published this press release at 5pm EST yesterday. In it we learn that the DoD’s Wal Mart, the Defense Logistics Agency, will spend $130 million on oil alone in 2008:
Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc., Yabucoa, Puerto Rico is being awarded a maximum $129,917,372 fixed price with economic price adjustment, partial set [...]
[This column is written by Chuck Foster of Yountville, CA. He blogs at THOUGHT BANDIT]
Thus far the Democratic Party’s 2008 primary election has been historical in so many ways. Here I present a hypothetical, albeit a rather dashed off treatment, which if realized will truly shake things up. If at some point you begin [...]
The Blogosphere is alleging that the Clinton campaign has darkened a photo of Barack Obama in a new ad. Some have drawn parallels between Clinton’s ad and the infamous Newsweek/Time covers with OJ Simpson–this ad doesn’t seem to meet that high standard of race-baiting in my opinion. There’s no doubt the image is darker, although [...]
In preparation for a general election he calls ‘tribal,’ Mark Halperin of Time proposes 16 points that Sen John McCain should adhere to in a likely match-up with Sen Barack Obama. One of those points has riled the blogosphere:
6. Allow some supporters to risk being accused of using the race card when criticizing Obama.
How low [...]
The Republican National Committee released a video today attacking Senate Democrats for their opposition to the Orwellian FISA extensions. The fear mongering in this video is Tancredo-esque: complete with ticking clocks, jingoism, and simplistic conclusions.
While these scare tactics are especially disturbing, the Arabic like pronunciation of Barack Obama’s name and the vilification of Democrats in [...]
Gary Kamiya over at Salon.com has this to say about Obama this morning:
Barack Obama’s stunning victory in Iowa was a moment of national alchemy. It represented an outpouring of righteous Democratic anger, and its simultaneous transformation into hope. That double process — the cathartic expression of rage, and its purification — is exactly what Democrats [...]
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