Speaking on Father’s Day Barack Obama took the opportunity to emphasize the importance of a father’s role in the rearing of children. As he put it “Responsibility doesn’t just end at conception.” True enough. It is worth noting that Obama seemed to take the moment of conception as a critical one. If responsibility [...]

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John McCain is often praised for his ability to reach across party lines and work with Democrats. Much to the chagrin of his fellow Republicans, his famous temper is usually reserved for members of his own party while he disagrees politely with his Democratic counterparts. That is all well and good, but [...]

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The latest from Iraq: http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL01687040
The over/under on days until hillary calls it quits is 10. That leaves one week for the effect of June 3rd’s primaries to sink in.
One interesting angle to watch will be whether Obama can manage to get enough supers to commit between now and Tuesday to clinch the nomination that night. [...]

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George Will never supported McCain during the primaries and he was reluctant to embrace him as the party’s nominee. He still isn’t doing McCain any favors, check this out:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/136308/page/2
ouch!

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John McCain is not an ideological conservative. Indeed, throughout his career he has taken positions which many on the right find indefensible. At some point during his political life, McCain has found a way to anger or annoy every major constituency of the GOP. Here is a beginners guide [...]

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As is usually the case on the eve of primary elections, the rules go out the window the night before. I remember driving home from Mccain HQ in New Hampshire the night before the primary and hearing a Romney radio spot saying all sorts of things he had declined to say during the campaign when [...]

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The Democratic Party created super-delegates in the wake of Jimmy Carter’s crushing defeat in 1980. Combined with the Mcgovern debacle of 1972, it seemed to the Democratic elites that the party’s nomination process had been hijacked by radicals who could not settle on a nominee within the mainstream of American [...]

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The Dems found themselves in Pennsylvania this past week. Obama missed yet another opportunity to end the race, losing to Clinton by ten points, a margin just wide enough for her to claim a significant win and soldier on. Considering the state was full of bitter, religious, gun owners, however, Obama might count himself lucky [...]

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It was another fun-filled week for Senators Obama and Clinton as they took turns marginalizing themselves in the eyes of moderate Americans. Senator Obama started the festivities by heading to San Francisco, that ever steady bastion of centrist common sense, where he explained why he was struggling to win lower class white votes in the [...]

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