Ammo Dump

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 07:32 AM CST

More ammunition for Barack Obama in this morning's USA Today: LITTLE ROCK - Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers...

TGIF for Rezko

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 06:03 AM CST

No session in the Rezko case today, the trial will resume on Monday. The Chicago Tribune is running "gavel-to-gavel" coverage, and from their handy summation of yesterday's testimony we learned that...

Hillary: No Do-Over in Florida

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 05:40 PM CST

US News' Ken Walsh asked Hillary Clinton about the possibility of "do overs" in Michigan and Florida. Clinton responded: I would not accept a caucus. I think that would be a great disservice to the 2...

Dean Kicks It Back To States

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 01:47 PM CST

DNC Chair Howard Dean made the morning rounds and answered the question everyone's asking: What about Florida and Michigan? (Note, it starts at about 2 minutes in.) Maybe Dean has no choice in the...

Ready or Not

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 12:39 PM CST

Oy. Obama foreign policy advisor Susan Rice commits original sin on Tucker Carlson's show: (via The Caucus) Here's the full 8-minute interview with Rice, courtesy of the folks at MSNBC. The...

Math Problems

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 12:37 PM CST

I always hated math, which may explain why I'm not totally convinced by Jonathan Alter's ongoing experiment with the delegate calculator. Alter's piece is essentially a summation of the Obama...

The Chicago Way

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 10:48 AM CST

John Kass of the Chicago Tribune goes in search of an answer to the question: What is the Chicago Way? Great stuff:...

How Liberals Play Race Politics

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:25 AM CST

"All is race," wrote Benjamin Disraeli, "there is no other truth." What Disraeli meant by race is what Winston Churchill meant when he spoke of "our island race" -- a tribe, an ethnic...

How Does Obama Feel About America?

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:30 AM CST

Barack Obama's words are often attractive but oddly concealing. His speeches are all balm and mood. It's all very well to seek, as Obama claims, to transcend old categories, to reject the "old...

Obama Needs a New Speech

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- With arithmetic on his side, Barack Obama still should be heavily favored to win the Democratic presidential nomination. But Obama does have a problem: The world-class orator, attacked...

Crime and Punishment for Reading

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- If an author can't make the Oprah cut, the next best thing may be getting censured by a university. Ever heard of Todd Tucker? Didn't think so. Obviously, some have because...

Dean Certainly Has Chutzpah

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:34 AM CST

You've got to give Howard Dean credit for chutzpah if nothing else. But he might want to wonder if the White House is worth fighting with your own folks over a few (million) shekels. The Democratic...

The Myth of America's Unpopularity

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:35 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- The one goal that unites and explains the Democratic approach to foreign policy is this: America must try -- urgently and desperately -- to be more popular in the world. "The...

Earmark Nation

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:35 AM CST

Newly minted presidential nominee John McCain stepped into the Rose Garden this week to receive President Bush's blessing. What the cameras didn't catch were pork-addicted congressional Republicans...

The Tragedy of the Democratic Party

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:37 AM CST

Super delegates will determine the next nominee of the Democrats, and a happy ending for the Party looks unlikely. Mathematically, the Democratic Party is nearly locked in to Barack Obama entering...

Congress Punishes American Oil

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:40 AM CST

In a relentless resolve to craft national energy policy, House Democrats last week passed an energy tax bill for the third time and the bill is headed to the Senate. With oil clearing the $100...

The Great Non Sequitur

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:40 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- She threw the kitchen sink at him. Accused Barack Obama of plagiarism. Mocked his eloquence. Questioned his truthfulness about NAFTA. Wasn't enough. Hillary Clinton still faced...

Dems' Agonizing Obsession with Fairness

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:40 AM CST

LOS ANGELES -- There they go again. Democrats have contrived a nominating contest that even Rube Goldberg would have considered too convoluted, too dysfunctional and too improbable to name as his...

Obama is Weak in Key Gen. Election States

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:40 AM CST

Two weeks ago we noted that, in spite of all the press hype promoting Barack Obama, the Democrats were only two steps away from chaos in their nomination process. Now make that one step. An Obama...

Previewing Tuesday's Special Elections

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 07:30 AM CST

In what might be called the first tests of this year's political landscape, voters will head to the polls Saturday and Tuesday to fill two vacant U.S. House seats in Illinois and Indiana. Should one...