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Iowa! Did you notice Hillary’s concession speech wasn’t a concession at all, but was a stump speech? Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Mike Lester of Georgia’s Rome News-Tribune thinks so too.
And I’ll go out on a limb today and predict she will make another concession speech Tuesday night. I think Obama will win […]

Barack Obama is the projected winner of the Democrats’ caucuses in Iowa. Obama had 38% of the vote, with John Edwards at 30% and Hillary Clinton at 29%.
It was history in the making and unlike Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns, which were more or less black campaigns, Obama’s Iowa win came about with a true ‘rainbow coalition’ […]

A just-released poll by WMUR and CNN shows Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama in New Hampshire has vanished. They are in a statistical dead heat, with Clinton’s support at 31% and Obama’s at 30%.
Since November, her support has dropped by 5 percentage points, while his has risen by 8 percentage points.
On the Republican side, […]

Remember when Bill Clinton was running for his first term and Hillary, already controversial, said, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas…”? It was enough of a gaffe that, once in the White House, she released a cookie recipe and is said to have really made them. With her own two […]

At long last, the dispute between New Hampshire and Michigan over primary election dates is over, after the Michigan Supreme Court gave that state the go-ahead to hold its primary January 15. New Hampshire then announced its primary will be January 8, retaining its first-in-the-nation status. That’s the earliest presidential primary ever and is three […]

A few weeks ago Carl Bernstein described himself as a missionary for A Woman in Charge, his biography of Hillary Clinton. And why not? It’s an excellent book and, as I said in April and will say again, an important book. As he has pointed out, had there been real biography about our current president before […]

With the debate and the Edwards ad, there’s been so much chatter about Hillary Clinton this week and so many cartoons. We’ll go inside the Beltway this time for Nate Beeler’s sharp take on Friday in the Washington Examiner, a free daily for the District and surrounding areas.

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The Democrats’ debate October 30 was not Hillary Clinton’s finest hour or two, especially when it came to the sharp challenges by Senator John Edwards  of South Carolina. There were moments that went way beyond any Flip-flop Award I could give her — again.
Now the Edwards campaign has jumped on her performance with a hard-hitting ad that […]

It’s one thing to change your position on an issue. It’s another to do so after ridiculing an opponent. 
Back in July, when Barack Obama said during a debate that he would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders, unconditionally, Hillary Clinton called his position irresponsible and naive.
Yesterday, in a Canterbury, NH apple orchard, a citizen […]

President Bush thinks Hillary Clinton will be the Democrats’ nominee next year. In an interview for a book, he broke his self-imposed rule not to discuss presidential politics.
He also thinks the Republicans will win the election after “a tough race”, but has not publicly singled out a candidate for his own party. He has expressed surprise […]

It’s finally starting to feel like primary time, a bit late this go-round. Yard signs and bumper stickers have been late to appear — I’ve seen one of each for Ron Paul and one huge, next-to-an-interstate sign for Rudy Giuliani. That’s it. [Afternoon yard sign update: two Romneys, one McCain] I’ve seen a couple TV […]

The Los Angeles Times reports today that some 2 million papers from Hillary Clinton’s years as first lady have been locked up at the Clinton presidential library and are not likely to be released until some time after the elections next year. Among the documents are appointment logs, calendars and memos, including memos about meetings […]

Even though many cartoonists focused on the controversy regarding Barry Bonds’ record-breaking homer this week, I still prefer the cartoon I chose two weeks ago. It makes the point cleverly while honoring Hank Aaron.
So today it’s not one cartoon but 25, a slide show of Hillary Clinton cartoons. Love her or hate her — and I […]

I know search engines are bringing you here because it was in one of my incoming RSS feeds; you can still get there from here. You can find the article/review either by going to the Sunday Times Book Review RSS feed at the bottom of the sidebar or by following the permalink from Bernstein’s Hillary […]

I feel a bit bad for Carl Bernstein. After years of work to produce 600+ well-crafted pages about Hillary Clinton, sex still sells. Three television interviews and three times now he has had to say there is no sex act in the book. It must be somewhat frustrating. As usual, we need the print media to […]