Jonah Goldberg* wrote a delightfully ridiculous column about how Barack Obama is getting off easy because he’s black. That’s right, folks, if Obama were white, the GOP would be attacking him more (and presumably, more effectively): According to the liberal history books, in 1988 the GOP cast Michael Dukakis as too elitist, cosmopolitan and not Read More
A pro-Obama Christian group questioned McCain’s virtue by bringing up the fact that he ditched his first wife after a debilitating car accident. The McCain camp, naturally, got huffy: “These smears on John McCain’s character and faith expose the utter hypocrisy of Barack Obama’s claim to represent a new kind of politics. It’s disgraceful.” He Read More
Back when the Democratic primary race seemed all shiny and new, G.D. and I kind of talked about how it was possible that Obama was maybe was not as progressive as people thought. First, there was his health care policy. Many agreed that Clinton’s was more likely to be close to universal. Then there was Read More
Don’t let Hillary Clinton’s optimism following her West Virginia win fool you: she knows it’s over. But do her supporters? If you’re riding for HRC, what you’re essentially hoping for is that the Democratic party elite install her as the nominee even though she trails by every conceivable metric. It’s a move that would be Read More
