The New Yorker has, I assume for a limited time, put on its website a 2004 profile of a young African-American running to represent Illinois in the United States Senate.* I can’t imagine it was more fun to read then than now. Among the highlights: the prescient sentiment of all who had met him that Read More
As insignificant as 107,000 people living on just over 100 square miles in the Caribbean Sea may be, St. Vincent and the Grenadines has Obama’s back. In this week’s Searchlight Newspaper: PRIME MINISTER Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is endorsing Barack Obama for the President of the United States. “I will say this to our American Read More
This post is cross-posted over at my place. Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a good overview of Obama and McCain’s respective positions on executive power. The short story is that although both senators have promised to step back from the executive overreaches of Bush’s presidency, neither has been completely willing to completely go back to the Read More
Hey PostBourgie folks, just a heads up: this is also posted at my blog and Feministe. Andrew Hacker’s essay in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books is something of a mixed bag. The piece is an attempt to measure the possible impact of race – specifically voter registration laws, and the Read More
Bob Herbert thinks Democrats should be a little anxious about November: Not only do the polls show this to be a close race, but the polls, when it comes to Senator Obama, cannot be trusted. It is frequently the case that a statistically significant percentage of white voters will lie to pollsters — or decline Read More
My friend Ashley wrote that Times story on Reggie Love last week, which included the line “closed-fisted high-five.” (To paraphrase Snoop, she meant ‘pound’, but she ain’t know it.) Chris Beam over at Slate chronicled some of the ways various news media outlets tried to describe the pound the Obamas gave to each other at Read More
A couple months back, sometime before Jeremiah Wright, before Richardson bowed out, before Richardson endorsed Obama, before 11 straight primary victories, before “working class” became conflated with “white,” before YouTube stole Bill Clinton’s mojo, before “bitter”, before i’d-rather-vote-for-McCain, before the Rules and Bylaws Committee, before Edwards bowed out, before Edwards endorsed Obama, before gas tax Read More
by hilzoy at Obsidian Wings. Cross-posted with permission. Geraldine Ferraro wrote a horrible op-ed in the Boston Globe. She says a number of things about the effects of sexism on the Clinton campaign, which I do not propose to consider here. But she also claims that the concerns of Reagan Democrats have not been heard: Read More
To be fair, every Clinton supporter isn’t getting their Ferraro on right now. But this is the narrative that seems to have become the dominant one among Hillary Clinton supporters in the blogosphere: that she is being denied the nomination by elites in the Democratic party. Those murmurs became all-out hysterical hollering (see above) after Read More
I’ve been meaning to shout-out last month’s Esquire for the cover story that perfectly encapsulates my feelings about the Obama campaign (cynicism via wounded idealism). But also, check out the riveting and troubling profile of John Yoo by John H. Richardson. Yoo notoriously wrote the Bush administration’s torture memos, which put in play any interrogation Read More
