According to Alex Koppelman, Salon’s campaign blogger, Obama has pulled down public pledges from 64 superdelegates since Super Tuesday, including promised endorsements from all of North Carolina’s seven Democratic members of Congress. Koppelman says Clinton has received only nine endorsements in the same period.
Since February, superdelegates have been suggesting they will end the [...]

Overheard: an historic walking tour of a “post-racial” French Quarter in a Bush Dynasty’s future America.

Cheney:
1) The economy? It’s going through a rough patch after 52 months of growth.
2) The wars? The surge is working.
3) Public opinion? So what.
Check it out, though, he’s wearing that flag pin!

Superdelegates, in all of their deliberations, must certainly be considering the following:
The Clinton campaign claims that Hillary’s win in Ohio and her lead in Pennsylvania signal that she is more likely than Obama to win in a general election. These state’s constituents include large percentages of the kind of white working class voters who have [...]

This account was sent to me by Christa Grenawalt, who is traveling in India right now. Recently, she spent several weeks studying under the Dali Lama. She also participated in marches there supporting Tibetan monks who are protesting Chinese persecution of monks in Lhasa, Tibet. While Christa was sitting in a café near Dharamsala, Tenzin [...]

Not to be glib and hold forth on the obvious and feed blogger stereotypes but, c’mon, this week marks five years of Operation Quagmire, which means there are people whose entire college or high school years have been marked by this war, which has meant death, disfigurement, lies, the politics of fear, and our bungling [...]

Where’s Hillary’s firebrand female spiritual adviser, dammit? We need to jump-start that other long-neglected national conversation.

Gary Dauphin’s take on Stuff White People Like: “Don’t piss on me and call it rain.” Yeah!

I’m in Cape Town, South Africa, and so I took a tour of Robben Island. The almost barren, oval-shaped land off the coast of the legendary Cape, that one filled with such Good Hope and so many disappointments, was the repository of prisoners for four centuries before it held the likes of Nelson Mandela and [...]

What the governor has been up to is a horrifying scandal. And I ain’t talking about Eliot Spitzer!

Barry Obama’s back. And maybe it’s just plain better that way for everybody— win or lose.

Meantime, the McCain campaign is not campaigning. The senator from Arizona wants to be clear that, on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, he’s merely visiting the Middle East to take a lay of the land. It’s a good thing, too, because McCain has repeatedly confused Shia and Sunni Iraqis and Iranian militants [...]

Oh, that my spiritual advisers had been anything like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright! Top Five with a bullet!

Yes you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you’d stop calling me Sister Sadie
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You’re all gonna die and die like flies…
I don’t trust you any more…
Alabama’s gotten me so upset
Tennessee made [...]

This time Obama took discussion of the Wright controversy to Philadelphia and, drawing on his own multi-racial American background, his personal philosophy of politics and his training as a constitutional scholar, unraveled a stunner of a speech on the history of race relations in the United States. It was the kind of distinctly unique speech [...]