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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 confirms reports that Tim Russert has died. He was 58.
He collapsed and apparently suffered a heart attack at NBC News in Washington, where he was the bureau chief and long-time host of Meet the Press. The network hasn’t made available further details. [Update: NBC now says he collapsed and “was striken.”]
Just today, he spoke […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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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 […]

Think of it as lol politics and media.
Cheez and Tofu, the team behind I Can Has Cheezburger, have launched a new site this election year with familiar faces getting the clever caption treatment. Some of the captions are even in plain English, not lolspeak (or kitteh, to those of us who are fluent) and politicians […]

Hillary Clinton has made a last-minute change to her schedule for a stop in Detroit today to further try to persuade Michigan legislators to allow a do-over primary election.
She trails Barack Obama in both popular votes and elected delegates; without do-overs in Florida, where the proposal has been rejected, and in Michigan, where Obama was […]

In her “kitchen sink” approach to attacking her opponent, Mrs. Clinton has acquired a recent fondness for saying, “I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in […]

Anyone interested in my take on last night’s primary results can find it at Barry!, a new political blog of mine. It’s called Reality Check for Hillary.