Adam Serwer

I can’t really tell what exactly is supposed to be frightening about Rashid Khalidi or his relationship with Barack Obama, but it’s very clear the McCain campaign is doing a successful job of keeping his name in the news. From what I can tell, Khalidi is a Palestinian academic who has been critical of Israel […]

It’s kind of hard to be shocked when McCain does something dishonest, but his attempt to capitalize on Obama‘s relationship with Palestinian professor and former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi, and to accuse The Los Angeles Times of bias* for not releasing a tape of a farewell party Obama attended on his behalf has to be […]

In the past, I may have suggested that Republicans either condone or ignore instances of voter suppression as long as they serve them politically. This is because of trumped up charges of “voter fraud” that have no merit, the use of private detectives to intimidate voters, trying to prevent college students from voting, and attempts […]

Not content with calling Obama‘s middle class tax cuts “welfare” or pushing reporters to cover the Ashley Todd hoax, the McCain campaign is going for the full Willie Horton, based on that 2001 radio interview (see Tim‘s take here): ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went beyond her running mate’s recent attack […]

Ohio Republicans are ratcheting up their efforts to cast doubt on the results of the election in Ohio, unless of course, they win, in which case the results will be completely legitimate: The Ohio Republican Party launched Tuesday a radio ad that opens with the sound of a ticking clock and asks, “Could Ohio’s election […]

Yesterday, I discussed Rush Limbaugh‘s odd defense of slavery in an attempt to demagogue a 2001 statement from Obama that the original Constitution was “flawed.” Obama also said that the Constitution is “a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now,” a statement I would agree with: the strength of the […]

Indiana’s Republican Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, who recently announced he will be pursuing an indictment against ACORN, had this to say about black voters last year: During a speech Thursday at a Republican event, Todd Rokita said 90 percent of blacks vote for Democrats. “How can that be?” Rokita said. “Ninety to ten. Who’s […]

My bitter, gun-toting, church-going rival Tim Fernholz has an exceptional piece up today on the effect of the Obama campaign’s flight from Muslim voters in an attempt to tamp down wrongheaded speculation that Obama himself is a Muslim: But Powell‘s directness has been missing from the Obama campaign’s response. His campaign has done an admirable […]

Reacting to the news that Republican Governor Charlie Crist has extended early voting in Florida upon anticipation of extended turnout, David Kurtz asks: That seems notably, even surprisingly, non-partisan and inclusive. Is there a catch? On the contrary, Crist appears to be that rare politician in either party that seems to care more deeply about […]

That’s the less than charitable interpretation of Limbaugh‘s butchering yesterday of that 2001 Obama interview: Obama, ladies and gentlemen, calls himself a constitutional professor or a constitutional scholar. In truth, Barack Obama was an anti-constitutional professor. He studied the Constitution, and he flatly rejected it. He doesn’t like the Constitution, he thinks it is flawed, […]