Compassion for $500B
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will participate in a “Compassion Forum.” I am reasonably certain this is for real and not a Saturday Night Live gag. John Edwards will grade each...
View ArticleThe Only Sin
The only mortal sin in politics is hypocrisy. Conservatives, especially social conservatives, have been easy targets for their sexual peccadilloes (which the media contrast with their public advocacy...
View ArticleBut Aren’t They Narrow-Minded Bigots?
Barack Obama tries the “I’m sorry if you were offended, but I was really right” approach. Does he not understand what he said? (Even the New York Times could figure it out, quoting a former John...
View ArticleMoveon, Kos – R.I.P.
In the monomaniacal world of moveon.org and the Daily Kos, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have committed an unforgivable sin. By appearing on Fox News the Democrats have proven themselves unserious...
View ArticlePeople . . . People Who Like Cabinet Appointments
People magazine has an interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards, who say they aren’t going to endorse anyone and will be “saving their political capital for their own causes.” Hmm. Or making certain...
View ArticleStepping Up Their Game
The McCain camp was wary, while the Democratic primary still looked undecided, of taking on Barack Obama too forcefully. Yes on Hamas and Bill Ayers, no on Reverend Wright, with not much fire directed...
View ArticleWhat If John Edwards Doesn’t Help?
Kentucky’s primary is Tuesday. Let’s say for sake of argument that the polls there, as they were in West Virginia, are accurate (or even underestimate Hillary’s lead). We then will see a big win for...
View ArticleIs It Another Election Day?
Yes, we have two more states to tally today and a not-quite declaration of victory in the offing from Barack Obama. (To understand what is really going on you need only watch this.) But for all intents...
View ArticleSo Far, No Surprises
Demographics seem to be destiny in the Democratic primary race. Before the polls closed you could have guessed that Hillary Clinton, as she did in West Virginia, would trounce Barack Obama in Kentucky....
View ArticleJohn Edwards Was Only the VP Nominee. Obama Is President
Richard Cohen’s weekly column spends seven paragraphs recitating the awfulness of John Edwards (I haven’t written about him because his loathsomeness has been aptly conveyed by others), the scariness...
View ArticleLiberal Legal Pundit Behaving Badly?
It’s not quite John Edwards territory, but it’s close. The New York Daily News (h/t Glenn Reynolds) reports: One of the media elite’s most whispered-about scandals went public Wednesday when married...
View ArticleThe Gathering Corruption Storm
Jen, to add to your point about Charlie Rangel and Eric Massa: we are seeing the different elements required to form a political thunderstorm amass — a storm that will likely batter Democrats in...
View ArticleThe Gray Lady Discovers It’s 2006 All Over Again
Even the Gray Lady must recognize the trend: The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Doesn’t sound kosher: “Decoy Jews.” Doesn’t sound like a problem easily fixed: Noemie Emery on the oil spill writes, “Initially, the diagnosis was that Mr. Cool perhaps had an emotional deficit — the...
View ArticleObama, Bush, and War
Barack Obama used a lawyer-like locution last night to avoid acknowledging the courage of his predecessor in initiating the surge that won the Iraq War: It’s well known that he and I disagreed about...
View ArticleA Bad Idea for GOP: Early Presidential Candidate Debates
Today, NBC and Politico announced they would co-host the first Republican presidential debate sometime in the spring of 2011. Presumably they are using the benchmark of April 2007, when the first...
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Hollywood Irony Watch: Political Fantasist Sorkin Calls Palin a Fake
In the 1990s, liberals weren’t entirely happy with a triangulating and philandering Bill Clinton, but they were able to escape from that reality in a movie written by Aaron Sorkin called The American...
View ArticleJustice Requires Acquittal of a Corrupt Politician
Jury selection starts today in the trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards on six felony charges of federal campaign finance law violations involving an alleged conspiracy and the making of...
View ArticleEdwards Show Trial Perverts Justice
As I wrote before the federal trial of John Edwards on campaign finance violation charges began, the former Democratic senator, vice presidential and presidential candidate is an easy person to...
View ArticleEdwards Verdict Averts Miscarriage of Justice
To their credit, the jury in the John Edwards trial wasn’t bamboozled by the federal effort to treat the former presidential candidate’s personal misconduct as a federal crime. Nor did they validate...
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