From Scratch

The lighter side of presidential politics. When it comes to fashion, there’s no doubt which potential first lady gets Tim Gunn’s vote. Project Runway’s divine style maven-in-chief tells Time magazine online:
Michelle Obama. Absolutely. From a fashion viewpoint, Michelle Obama looks so comfortable and relaxed in her style, in her fashion, and she exudes that. She […]

The Jerusalem Post runs a good cartoon strip by Yaakov Kirschen called Dry Bones, which usually takes on issues in Israeli politics. But one strip this past week was prompted by Barack Obama’s visit.

Sphere: Related Content

Even though John McCain has given us flip-flop whiplash recently as he tries (wisely, I believe) to distance himself from some of George Bush’s policies and even though I support Barack Obama, a major flip-flop is exactly that. And this one’s a doozy.
Obama, with an unbelievably efficient and effective fund-raising campaign, especially online and from small […]

NBC news has confirmed Hillary Clinton plans to suspend her campaign for the White House on Saturday and “express her support” for Barack Obama.
Aides say she will also congratulate Obama for winning enough delegates to clinch the nomination. At any other time, with nearly any other candidate, that would be assumed but after her arrogant, defiant […]

Mrs. Clinton:
First, please know I did not choose that form of address just because protocol dictates it, when not addressing you as Senator Clinton. I chose it because, for all your lip service to feminism, you quickly come to mind when I think of women whose success is tied to their husbands’. Without him and […]

Illinois Senator Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, with the required 2,118 delegates, as tallied by CNN.
Throughout the day, as voters in South Dakota and Montana cast primary ballots, delegates and superdelegates were moving to Obama. Some had been undeclared while others switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton.
Obama will address supporters tonight in […]

Who is Rupert Murdoch afraid of? Barack Obama, I guess. All three of this week’s Ramirez cartoons in Murdoch’s conservative New York Post were anti-Obama. Wednesday’s  was an example of a tired, lame editorial stance we ought to be past by now.

Sphere: Related Content

Now it’s on to Chicago and let’s win there.
Those were among the last words we heard Bobby Kennedy speak.
Hillary Clinton has apologized for invoking his 1968 assassination yesterday and Robert F Kennedy, Jr., who has endorsed her, issued a statement that said: “It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political […]

“We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people, and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America.”
Senator Barack Obama’s words last night, outside the Capitol in Des Moines. It was a fitting return; January’s Iowa caucuses catapulted his […]

It’s becoming almost farcical. After Hillary’s expected big win in West Virginia Tuesday, Obama picked up the support of enough superdelegates to take a small lead and is only 17 elected delegates away from a majority, but she refuses to admit defeat.
I’ll think of her the next time I watch Carrie, thanks to Frederick Deligne of France’s […]

Editorial cartoonists around the globe weighed in this week on Hillary Clinton’s refusal to quit the Democratic presidential race, despite impossible delegate math and the party’s coalescing around Barack Obama in the name of unity. I didn’t see a single one that took her side.
From Canada, Tab of The Calgary Sun went beyond criticism to sketch out […]

Last night, after Barack Obama’s victory speech in North Carolina, David Gergen said it was the beginning of the end of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Gergen is a rarity: he put aside partisan politics after serving in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan White Houses when he agreed to serve the country as an adviser in Bill Clinton’s administration. His […]

At long last, the Pennsylvania primary has come and gone. It wasn’t the blowout for Hillary it seemed it would be a month earlier, but it wasn’t a squeaker either. So she lives to fight another day, despite Obama’s likely insurmountable lead in delegates.
I’ve come to think of the primary as Spinsylvania and, apparently, so […]

Carl Bernstein wrote an incisive opinion piece the other day for Anderson Cooper’s 360 blog. Bernstein, author of the Hillary Clinton biography, A Woman in Charge, is a CNN analyst this year and appears on Cooper’s program.
His post is so damning that Clinton loyalist Lanny Davis requested and got the chance to rebut.
In speculating what a Clinton […]

After what seems like months, not weeks, of increasingly-nasty campaigning, the Pennsylvania primary finally is at hand. And one issue I can’t believe even became an issue refuses to go away, especially among small-minded xenophobes.
Keefe of The Denver Post summed up my thoughts on Thursday with just a few strokes.

Sphere: Related Content