Tag Archives: election 2008

What now? A turn to substance for Barack Obama

With an emphasis upon the issues, Obama can—and should—convince Hillary voters that he will represent them ideologically, even if they would have preferred her.
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Obama: the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

And how will Republicans pick on Obama? Hillary did a lot of the work for them
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A Morning in the Life: John McCain

"The worst thing I have going for me is my own party’s incumbent president, and the best thing I have going for me is the brain trust driving the clown car that is the Democratic party nominating process over a cliff..."
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Heartbreak Hill: will it be Clinton or Obama?

The Democratic primary remains very much in doubt, seemingly teetering on the brink of a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
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America’s prison problem: if iron bars were cellophane

If you suggest that maybe, just maybe, building more prisons is dealing with the wrong end of the supply/demand problem, it sounds to people as if you just suggested that they should let someone slit their throats and go sell their TV for crack.
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Super Tuesday: A Political Perfect Storm

...what happened just now, on Super Tuesday?
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The Clintons are graceless. Is it finally good night?

I sat mesmerized as I watched Caroline and Ted Kennedy symbolically pass the torch of Camelot and all it represents to the loyal opposition, Barak Obama, the other day.
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