President ’08

Does Hillary as VP Satisfy Her Supporters?

By Monique Chartier | June 7, 2008 |

Following upon the face to face meeting of Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday at the house of Senator Dianne Feinstein (about which no details have yet emerged), the question now for all of Senator Clinton’s supporters who are disappointed with her finish in the primary to the point that they have decided…

Turnabout Doesn’t Feel Like Fair Play

By Marc Comtois | June 5, 2008 |

Froma Harrop taps into the frustration felt by the Hillary-supportin’ womyn out there, such as one Jean B. Grillo: I am so tired as a white, ultra-liberal, McGovern-voting, civil-rights marching, anti-war fighting, highly educated professional woman who totally supports Hillary Clinton to be attacked and vilified as racist and/or dumb. Or Shauna Morris: I am…

Contrast

By Marc Comtois | June 4, 2008 |

John McCain: I don’t seek the presidency on the presumption I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the office with the humility of a man who cannot forget my country saved me. I’ll reach out my hand to anyone, Republican…

The DNC Rules Committee Takes King Solomon’s Suggestion

By Monique Chartier | May 31, 2008 |

The Democratic Party Rules and Bylaws Committee wimped out this afternoon and allowed Michigan and Florida delegates to be seated at the convention, though the delegates from those states will have only half a vote to cast for either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama. This decision seriously jeopardizes Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign, which needed every…

Someone Alert Paula McFarland

By Carroll Andrew Morse | May 31, 2008 |

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (h/t Kathryn Jean Lopez)…Koryne Horbal, the 71-year-old founder of the DFL Feminist Caucus, doesn’t care whether her idea costs Democrats the White House. Though she acknowledges it is a difficult sell, Horbal said she and other feminists are promising not to vote for Barack Obama and write in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s…

Sexism or Politics Ain’t Beanball?

By Monique Chartier | May 21, 2008 |

While stating her belief that the 2008 Democrat presidential primary has not been racist, Senator Hillary Clinton on Sunday made the claim that she received “sexist” treatment during her presidential campaign. “The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted, and…

National Popular Vote: Is the Time Now?

By Carroll Andrew Morse | May 21, 2008 |

Question for the National Popular Vote for President folks out there: If Hillary Clinton nets about 123,000 popular votes over Barack Obama in the remaining Democratic primaries — enough to make her the popular vote leader, according to Byron York of National Review, working from RealClearPolitics vote totals — should she become the Democratic nominee?…

Senator Obama’s naive, ahistorical, and unrealistic foreign policy viewpoints: His Achilles Heel for the November election

By Donald B. Hawthorne | May 16, 2008 |

In Israel for the 60th anniversary celebration of its founding, President George W. Bush gave a speech in the Knesset, saying these words: Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along . . . We have heard this…

A GOP Veepstakes Aside

By Marc Comtois | May 13, 2008 |

Many conservatives are swallowing hard and coming to accept that John McCain is the best option out there. But I wonder if that will change should Mike Huckabee become the VP choice. James Pethokoukis has the scoop: Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and defeated contender for the GOP presidential nomination, is currently at…

Obama Believes in Recycling

By Monique Chartier | May 11, 2008 |

… old political scandals. Senator Barack Obama said today that a scandal from Senator John McCain’s past – the Keating Five – was just as relevant to the presidential campaign as questions about who Mr. Obama has associated with over the years. In a news conference here, Mr. Obama was asked whether his campaign intended…