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 [...]

Obama’s answer to the Pastor Wright controversy this weekend included this video and appearances on the television networks— including Fox. Obama attempted to provide background on how he came to know and respect Reverend Wright and gave assurances that he never heard the man make these kinds of inflammatory comments— never while Obama was “in [...]

How much do Obama’s pastor’s comments matter? There are pundits now convinced that the Pastor Wright YouTubes have rendered Barack Obama unelectable. Some initial polling suggests the Wright controversy may indeed influence voters. Others believe the controversy has been rightly handled or mostly amounts to a distraction and will have little effect on the election.
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Scott Bateman’s take on the Ferraro craziness, as fetched and posted by Salon’s Video Dog.

With wins in Wyoming this weekend and Mississippi last night, Obama made up all the delegates Hillary gained on him in Ohio and Rhode Island on March 4th. He is also set to add more delegates when the Texas caucus results are finalized.
According to Bloomburg News: “With the win in Mississippi, Obama has now won [...]

“There’s no evidence that she’s Muslim, as far as we know… If she says she’s not Muslim, well, we take her at her word.”

It’s caucus day in Wyoming, which is one of the boxy Rocky Mountain states without a well-known film festival to bring in celebrities and news cameras. If you’ve never heard of it, Wyoming is the real purrty place that lives right below Montana. If you’ve never heard of Montana, it’s the real purrty place that [...]

Get out your pitchforks and torches. Those crazy memoirists will just flat out lie about anything: addiction, L.A. childhood gang life, Native American-ness, growing up a Jew in Europe during the Holocaust, pretty much anything… What exactly do we have to do to these people to make them stop? Buy their books in record numbers, [...]

Still more than a head closer to the rim.

When the results from the crazy Texas caucuses are finalized tonight, Hillary Clinton will have likely gained a total of somewhere between four and nine delegates in the semi-Super Tuesday voting. That’s out of 3,000 some delegates already pledged. The newspaper headlines were screaming “Hillary Wins” and [...]

Wisconsinites and Hawaiians are heading to the polls today. Of course we know it’s never a good thing to cover politics like a horse race. It just degrades the whole important process. That said, here they come spinning round the track, Wisconsin seeming suddenly a crucial leg in the race to the checkered flag, a [...]

According to pretty much everywhere on the internet, the Hillary campaign put its worst foot forward in Wisconsin, where voters go to the polls tomorrow. A loss for The Hill in Wisconsin would be the clearest signal yet that her base is breaking up— there being a hell of a lot more working class white [...]

We’re so late with this but it’s still funny: the “john.he.is” McCain-inspired parody of the viral-crazy Obama tribute made by will.i.am. Boo-ha!

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a professor at Princeton, went all Tracy Morgan/Jordan this morning at The Root, dropping a truth bomb of an essay in which she rails against the reductive analysis of the African-American women’s vote on Super Tuesday, where pundits simply claimed that for black women “race trumped gender.” In attacking that assessment, Harris-Lacewell does [...]

To the great dismay of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney made his grand exit from the national stage yesterday, bowing out of the presidential campaign no less the fear monger than when he entered. His uplifting clear-sighted parting words? “Staying in the race would make it easier for [the Democratic party candidate] to [...]

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