Erich Rauchway, a history professor in California and one of our buddies over at the very dope blog egdeofthewest, drops some knowledge in a New York Times article that asks that very question.
Enough already, Hollywood. We get it. You want to throw whatever weight you have behind Obama. But shouldn’t Will.i.am have quit while he was ahead here? His latest support video just screams “one too many!” and comes off as less about the promotion of the words, ideals, and inspiration of the candidate himself and more Read More
Patrick Ruffini says that according to projections from a crowdsourced spreadsheet, the Obama campaign is on pace to raise $60 million this month. In January, he raised $36 million — the highest campaign fundraising mark for a month in a contested primary ever. (Question: Have any of y’all donated to a candidate?)
An interesting question posed by On The Media: how do you satirize Obama and Clinton without veering into territory that might be labeled a racist or misogynist? They talked to editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson about reactions to his caricatures and professor Elaine Miller about the way Geraldine Ferraro was depicted in editorial cartoons in Read More
That sound you’re hearing is the swiftboat engine.
The Clinton campaign either delivered a low blow or just now decided to capitalize on Barack Obama and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s uncanny familiarity with the same language of hope. Earlier this week, Hillary’s camp accused Obama of plagiarizing phrases from a speech Patrick delivered when he was on the campaign trail two years Read More
Outside of the Hillary-is-a-bitch reference, we thought this was pretty cool.
Nah, We’re playing. Just more fun with delegates. YAY! Anyone with a brain could see that if the DNC went through with its threat, voters there would be disenfranchised. Had the NAACP and other groups gone after the state legislators then, we wouldn’t be in this position now. And with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Read More
After murking Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s primaries, The New York Times is reporting that Democrats are saying Barack Obama’s lead among delegates may be too much for Hillary to make up, even if she takes Ohio and Texas in March and Pennsylvania in April. Clinton has been calling for the DNC, helmed by Howard Dean, Read More
Slate‘s David Plotz once compared going to see Barack Obama speak live as a religious experience. This would explain why talking to some Obama supporters is like talking to pushy born-again believers who desperately want you to know hear the good news. Fam, we get it: you’re fired up and ready to go. Now please Read More
