Campaign letters are always at least a little comic — the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness. There are also the “artful” decisions made by the authors that are fun to explore for hidden meanings.
A recent Hillary dispatch to her supporters is a gem. Her campaign is over, the thrill of future campaign-related possibilities [...]

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If even half of what Christopher Hitchens says is true about Hillary’s tall tale of the Tuzla tarmac, she should be made to retreat from public life and follow George W Bush into oblivion. Hitchens says that during the war in Bosnia, Hillary argued strongly against doing anything to end the hostilities there because it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

Hillary’s weighing the merits of Obama as a vice-presidential running mate is ridiculous, which makes it the perfect big-media story. The contest is nowhere close to over. Everything is hanging in the balance. Why should anyone care who Hillary is considering for VP? No one, of course, except that’s not the point. Hillary’s [...]

Hillary did not lose the Democratic primary race last night. She can’t win the popular vote. Her win in Ohio and the squeaker in Texas merely blunted calls for her to do the right thing for the party and concede. Doing the right thing is not a concern for Hillary Clinton at this point. She [...]

In the last hours before the crucial mini-SuperTuesday Democrartic primary voting, the “experience” candidate stoops to War on Terror messaging: “Vote Hillary to protect the poor cuddly kids!” Sorry, but no. This ad demonstrates everything that’s wrong with the kind of experience Hillary is so proud of acquiring. As Slate points out, she didn’t keep [...]

I didn’t know there was any West Wing beyond the seasons featuring Latin-spewing over-the-top Martin Sheen as President Bartlet. Apparently there was and it included a President Obama, or anyway a TV equivalent played by Jimmy Smits. If this is all true, and I think maybe it is, then there was never a need for [...]

Major avant-garde dude Robbe-Grillet, who died this week, leaving the living to puzzle over his novels. Ha!

Asked by Tavis about the fact that, in deciding who will be the Democratic party’s nominee for president, the party’s superdelegates may fail to reflect the will of the people, Hillary talks about how great it is, actually, because the superdelegates “know the candidates better” than the voters do anyway, that she’s worked really closely [...]

Above is an artifact that should go into the Library of Congress/National Archives. It is evidence that in 2008 there remains at least one human in Congress who understands what is at stake in the conniving disingenuous warrantless spying and telecommunications immunity bill that the President and his cronies are salivating over and that the [...]