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Category Archives: Presidential Politics

What we’re up against

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Barack Obama will have two opponents in the fall. If he were only running against John McCain, his victory would be a sure thing. But his other opponent is the media, the only group of people in this country who think John McCain is an inspiring leader. In the end, as in 2000, they will […]

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Counting Delegates

Monday, March 31, 2008

Via Talking Points, here’s a fun site at Slate, where you can tinker with the delegate math and play out different scenarios depending on how things go in the upcoming primaries. The conclusion is inescapable: Hillary can win only if she steals it, or a miracle happens. I assumed, for example, that she gets 65% […]

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Overreacting

Monday, March 24, 2008

Things are getting a bit fevered out there: You know, it strikes me that the best way to really restore sanity and a measure of stability to the mortgage industry is to ensure that the people most harmed by predatory lending practices, who were on the receiving end of extraordinary dubious financial advice which has, […]

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It’s time for her to go

Friday, March 21, 2008

Josh Marshall links to this article at the Politico that argues that the press has been complicit in pushing a narrative that Hillary Clinton still has a chances to win the nomination. In this morning’s Times, even that narrative appears to be crumbling. Bill Richardson’s endorsement is likely the first in a cascade of endorsements […]

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Hillary and Obama on mercenaries

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hillary Clinton recently announced that, if elected, she would “ask the Joint Chiefs for their help in reducing reliance on armed private military contractors with the goal of ultimately implementing a ban on such contractors,”. When this first came across my RSS reader I thought it was great and intended to give Hillary credit for […]

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Double standards

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I’ve written a lot about the double standard that the media applies to Democrats, who are routinely savaged for things for which Republicans get free passes. But there appears to be an even more pernicious set of standards applied to black Democrats. Barack Obama has been forced to disassociate himself from Louis Farakhan, with whom […]

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Hillary predicts the future-badly.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton committed a cardinal sin recently by implying, if not stating outright, that John McCain would be a better president than Barack Obama. I’m not going to add my voice to everyone else who has come down on her, though she deserves every denunciation. What no one has noticed is the fact that, if […]

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John McCain, an agent of an agent of intolerance

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Louis Farakhan endorsed Barack Obama, though Obama neither sought nor welcomed the endorsement. Nonetheless, as must all black politicians, he was forced to go through the ritual of denouncing him, most recently at the hands of the loathsome Tim Russert, during a debate with Hillary. John McCain, having traveled a long way from his remarks […]

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Obama wins Vermont

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I am mostly taking the night off tonight, to monitor the results and also because I have nothing to say. I am happy to see that Obama won in the Republic of Vermont by almost 2 to 1. My wife says that it is possible that Obama could have a net gain in delegates from […]

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A conflict of interest

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

This is an interesting story. Mark Penn, the guy who has advised Hillary’s campaign so successfully, obviously has a financial interest in a Hillary victory. But, should Hillary lose the nomination, he also has a financial interest in Obama losing in November. No conflict with respect to Hillary maybe, but a massive conflict in relation […]

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