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In an online version of article in TIME, titled “Obama Plays Catch-Up in Pennsylvania,” posted March 25, the editors note that the Clinton campaign initially informed the reporters that their Pennsylvania state director, Mary Isenhour, was the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Between Hillary Clinton’s apparently hallucination about sniper bullets whizzing over her head on […]

All this talk of “Hillary’s” voters and “Obama’s” voters threatening to abandon the Democratic ticket in November if “their” gal or guy doesn’t get the nomination makes me wonder, yet again, if the Democratic Party is EVER going to be ready for political prime time.
I’ll admit that, as an Obama supporter and Hillary skeptic, I’ve […]

My dear friends and fellow Americans:
Barack Obama’s “big speech on race” was great, but it won’t erase the negative impressions of the black separatist mindset inspired by the words and images of Wright and even of all-black congregations generally. People are rightly asking why the candidate would want his young, impressionable children exposed to Wright’s […]

I don’t know about you, but I still don’t understand how the Democratic Party could have allowed itself to fall into a situation where presidential primaries in two major states, Florida and Michigan, would be rendered null and void. I mean, how dumb can Party leaders be?
Really dumb, it seems. There seems to be a […]

With the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the ascension of Lieutenant Gov. David Paterson to the governorship of New York, the state government moved quickly beyond former Spitzer’s spectacular fall from grace after the now former governor was caught indulging in regular services from a high-priced call girl affiliated with an upper-echelon prostitution ring.
What […]

Barack Obama took a big perceptual hit this week, as videotape came to light showing his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in full inflammatory, “fire and brimstone” mode. Obama has catapulted himself to the front of the Democratic presidential primary race on his strength as a black candidate who transcends race. As one white male […]

In honor of the racially-charged dynamics of the Democratic presidential primary, I offer this series of excerpts from my book, “Democrats in the Red Zone: an Independent voter’s take on the game of political perception.” I hope people will feel inspired to comment as we all consider the challenges facing the Democratic Party in general, and […]

The Democratic primary/caucus election results last Tuesday point to a divide in the Democratic Party: a divide in thinking about politics between cautious “old school” and dynamic “new school.”
Many Democrats may be starting to worry that their team won’t be able to score enough points with so-called “swing voters” to beat an aging dude named […]

The American press has done it again. Done what? Helped fuel a backlash to Barack Obama in the electorate last Tuesday. The usual suspects on CNN and MSNBC (you know who you are) couldn’t help INSINUATING LOUDLY over the past couple of weeks that Hillary Clinton should throw in the towel on her presidential bid […]

The New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers weren’t scheduled to meet each other during the regular season, so about half of America was hoping they’d face each other in Super Bowl XLII. We didn’t get to see the two best quarterbacks in the League — Tom Brady and Brett Favre — play each other […]