In several posts recently, I’ve come down on Barack Obama for his increasingly populist message, and for me, his low point in this campaign came during the NAFTA discussion in the Ohio debate. Even as I mentally wrote his words off as primary-campaign pandering, I was extremely uncomfortable.
I vastly prefer the pragmatic Obama; […]
Dear Husband sent me a link to this guest post at Taylor Marsh’s site.
Only now that Obama has a miniscule lead of 128,736 in the number of votes cast (and that includes assigning all the “uncommitted” votes in Michigan to Obama) has the media focused on total votes cast. This lead represents less […]
Alan Stewart Carl writes:
I thought I had Barack Obama figured out. I thought he was no more liberal than Hillary Clinton but far more likely to bridge the divides in this nation. But, if that’s what I am seeing, why are America’s leftists seeing something entirely different? A day after Obama gets the MoveOn.org arch-liberal […]
Considering that Barack Obama is currently vying for the Democratic nomination, I’ve held off discussing his “liberalness” — primarily because I want him to win the nomination, and at this juncture, the competition is still for “the base”. In exactly the same way Republicans are forced to pander to the hard right, the Democrats […]
Oh dear. And we still have months of this to sit through.
A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.
And contrary to some of the […]