For Clintons, an old dream finally fades
June 7, 2008
Hillary’s defeat isn’t just a turn in her career but a turn for the Clintons’ lives together. See also: Ben Smith asks if Hillary is to blame
The death of an American hero
June 7, 2008
It with deepest sadness that I have to tell of the death of SEAL. His wife Dinah wrote to me this morning that SEAL died in his sleep on May 31st of the terrible cancer that was fought off until it went into his brain and it shut down. He was not in pain and I told his wife, I would invite here to share your comments with her.
Clinton Bloc Becomes the Prize for Election Day
June 7, 2008
With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ending her campaign, the Democratic and Republican nominees hope to claim the women voters faithful to her.
Obama’s Comments on Israel Stir Criticism in U.S.
June 7, 2008
As the senator and his campaign have sought to explain his remarks to a pro-Israel lobby, they have been accused of backtracking, generating a new round of criticism at home among Jewish groups.
The Ad Campaign: Talk of War and Family Highlights McCain’s Kickoff Commercial
June 7, 2008
John McCain’s first advertising push of the general election puts the best possible spin on his support for the unpopular Iraq war.
Political Memo: Two Rivals Sneak Away to Meet, and Hunt Is On
June 7, 2008
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled off a secret rendezvous Thursday night, eluding camera crews and setting off a political scavenger hunt.
Obama’s VP dilemma
June 7, 2008
Now the real war begins and the question most strategists are asking about Barack Obama is: Can he win it without Hillary Clinton on the ticket?
Forty-eight years ago, John Kennedy faced the same dilemma with his chief opponent, Lyndon Johnson, and decided with a warning nudge from House Speaker Sam Rayburn that he couldn’t, despite the fact he loathed the Texas senator.
Two cheers for Barack Obama
June 7, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama finally captured the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday. For this, he deserves two cheers from Americans from coast to coast.
First, Obama secured this country’s chief domestic priority for 2008: denying Sen. Hillary Clinton the presidency. Obama has earned the eternal gratitude of millions of relieved Americans who understand how calamitous a Hillary Clinton administration would have been. She combines ruthless ambition, a pathological sense of entitlement, and the ethical restraint of Richard Nixon’s “White House plumbers” unit.
Forcing America to confront race
June 7, 2008
Keisha Brown, 21, of Chicago, exultant after Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination, told The Washington Post, “Everything will be different now.”
Oh dear.
There will be five months of grueling campaigning before we vote. There might be a town hall meeting every week until the end of August, if Obama accepts McCain’s challenge. And there will much soul searching by Americans.
Who’s minding our nukes?
June 7, 2008
As the reasons come out behind Defense secretary Robert Gates’ shakeup of the top Air Force command, the questions comes to mind: What took him so long?
A classified report to Gates found that the Air Force’s lax stewardship of our land-based and airborne nuclear arsenal is “a problem that has been identified but not effectively addressed for over a decade.”