From Scratch

What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.
Former White House news secretary Scott McClellan in his book, What Happened. It reached #1 on Amazon before its official publication date and his charge that the war was just a Bush propaganda campaign sent Administration spinmeisters […]

I wish I had a dollar for every cartoon this week about Scott McClellan’s book. My favorite, for its creativity and political memory, was Huffaker’s at Cagle Cartoons.
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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 […]

Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech.
Perhaps only George Bush would say “awesome speech” to a pope, but he did, when Benedict visited the White House in mid-April.
See for yourself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dXwqQFS8t6o

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Cindy, Cindy, Cindy. I’m sure you won’t mind if I call you that; you told me to, the times we met in New Hampshire when you were standing by your man in his quest to become president.
I always liked you and admired your smarts, your easy charm, impeccable grooming and appearance, although the New Yorker […]

So?
Vice President Dick Cheney’s response on March 19, when told by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz that a majority of Americans, about two-thirds, say the Iraq war isn’t worth it.
The ever-sensitive Cheney went on to say, “You can’t be blown off course by polls.”

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If John McCain becomes the Republican presidential candidate as expected, he’ll have to sell the electorate on one of his key positions. And it could be a hard sell, as RJ Matson sketched on Thursday in Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.

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William F. Buckley, Jr. has died. He was 82, and while the cause of death is not known yet, his son Christopher (Thank You for Smoking) says Buckley suffered from emphysema and diabetes.
Buckley was an eloquent voice among conservatives, possibly the most eloquent. He never had to be encouraged, as toddlers of soccer moms are, to […]

A new CBS News/New York Times poll finds a jump in Barack Obama’s support since the New Hampshire primary, paired with increased confidence in his ability to lead the country and to beat John McCain.
Among Democratic primary voters, 59% now say Obama has the best chance of winning in November, compared with 28% who say […]

The latest casualty in the presidential races is Repubican Mitt Romney, who had the dubious distinction last May of winning this blog’s first Flip-Flop Award. He could have won many more; I came to think of him as The Weathervane for the way he would spin, depending on which way the wind was blowing.
The end of […]

Please take this widget with you; you can even email it. After Super Tuesday we know two things: John McCain is the undisputed frontrunner for the GOP, in a comeback that was unthinkable last summer when everyone, including me, wrote him off. And we know the Democrats have a true contest, the likes of which […]

Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a statistical dead heat, heading into the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.
National polling for The Washington Post and ABC News shows 47% of Democrats likely to vote on Tuesday back Clinton, while 43% favor Obama. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four […]

According to CNN projections, Arizona Senator John McCain has won the Republican primary in New Hampshire with 37% of the vote. Mitt Romney was second with 28% and Mike Huckabee third with 12%.
It’s a remarkable comeback for McCain, whose then-moribund campaign was nearly out of money and staff last summer.
McCain easily won this primary in 2000, […]

Tonight’s tracking polls for WMUR and CNN show Barack Obama and John McCain retain their leads for their parties’ primaries tomorrow. Obama leads Democrats with 39% and McCain tops Republicans with 31%, down one percentage point from yesterday. Obama’s lead over Hillary Clinton is also down by one percentage point; she is at 30% now. […]

Weekend polling by WMUR and CNN shows Barack Obama with a double-digit lead going into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. The poll, conducted over the weekend, finds Obama with 39% of the support, to Hillary Clinton’s 29%. A poll released Saturday had found them in a dead heat at 33%.
This latest tracking poll also shows John […]