On the same day that Obama’s campaign gathered new wind on its back, thanks to a sweeping victory in South Carolina, another Caroline came through for him. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama, comparing him to her father. A President Like My Father OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved…

I’ve been on the fence over whether I prefer Hillary or Obama, and have been generally leaning in the "I don’t care, they’re more or less the same to me" direction.  That’s part of the reason I continue to be so strongly pro-Edwards.  But this makes me think that there are some good reasons to…

As I indicated in an earlier post, some Democratic elders are concerned about the unseemly tenor of the Clinton campaign – particularly the sight of an ex-president publicly brawling with his wife’s political opponent. The Clintons have the support of many back-room party apparatchiks on their side. But several well known senior Democrats in elected…

As a big Paul Krugman fan, I’m a bit disappointed by the tendentiousness of his attacks on Obama.  Krugman may be right about the Social Security "crisis" rhetoric and the importance of health care mandates, but his attempts to say that Obama was praising Ronald Reagan are just flat-out wrong, and rely on a deliberately…

Correction; it was an Oil Dance.  With oil prices hovering between $90 – $100 a barrel, George W. Bush recently visited his family friends in Saudi Arabia to sweetly jawbone them into lowering prices. It hasn’t worked yet. Eager to please the Saudis, Bush even participated in a sword dance with his princely hosts. The…

Marc Cooper over in Huffington Post on tonight’s Democratic debate in S. Carolina.

(I left the following comment on another blog on a related topic, I am re-posting it here with minor changes.) "As things stand today, Hillary Clinton will probably win the nomination. There are just not enough older "liberal" baby boomers who can jump this last hurdle (of race) of their discomfort yet to vote for…

or, Huckabee the Hatemonger A Republican, a bigot? Surely I must jest. Of course Mike Huckabee opposes gay marriage — all of the Republicans do. (For that matter, as far as I can tell, all of the Democrats do, albeit less badly.) The way in which he does so is interesting, though. Huckabee says that…

"Will they play the race card?" asks Marjorie Valbrun in the Washington post. By "they," she means the Clintons. I’m scared for Barack Obama, but not for the same reasons that many other black voters are. While the possibility of a crazed gunman coming after him does worry me, my real fear is grounded in…

I’m going to lay my cards on the table, here. Like Ruchira, I have had difficulty summoning a great deal of enthusiasm for any of the front-running Democratic candidates. I’m a pragmatist, when it comes to voting in national elections, so the annoying and complicated combination of factors that narrow the numbers of viable candidates…

Glen Greenwald wrote a piece a couple weeks ago at Salon about media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates.  I think this is an important and interesting article which is very much worth reading. It should be obvious to anyone who paid attention to the Democratic nomination process for the 2004 election that the mainstream media killed…

The New Hampshire primary results are in. While the Republican contest went as projected by the polls, the Democratic outcome has come as somewhat of a surprise.  John McCain is the Republican winner and Hillary Clinton has finished first on the Democratic ballot.   The race is now wide open for candidates of both parties –…

Abbas Raza explains in 3 Quarks Daily.