So yesterday Bill Clinton was asked by a reporter about the lawsuit filed by Clinton supporters in Nevada trying to squash the at-large caucus sites at which casino workers would be able to vote in Saturday’s caucus, and he got all up in the dude’s grille: Clinton, just inches from his face, fired back. ”There […]
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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The Huckabee/Obama Challenge
Both candidates highlight generational divides in their respective parties and bring into question theories of political engagement that have guided the evangelical and civil-rights movements for decades.
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SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS…
I can’t imagine I’m the only one who finds the current back-and-forth between the I can’t imagine I’m the only one who finds the current back-and-forth between the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns on race utterly fascinating, from the standpoint of political strategy. Here you have one of the most explosive and emotion-laden issues […]
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POLL? WHAT’S A POLL?
I have this crazy dream: one day, a politician will be asked about some poll result or other, and he or she will respond by saying something other than, “I don’t pay any attention to polls.” I realize that we tolerate lots of white lies from our politicians: “It’s great to be here!” “Whatever problem […]
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YOUR JONAH GOLDBERG HOWLER OF THE DAY.
I know, it’s too easy to go after Jonah Goldberg for all the ridiculousness that is his book Liberal Fascism But this, from his interview with Salon, is just too funny: Alex Koppelman: You write, “[Liberalism] is definitely totalitarian — or ‘holistic,’ if you prefer — in that liberalism today sees no realm of human […]
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Why Conservatives’ Crush on Obama Is Doomed
The heart of conservative affection for Barack Obama is that he “never brings race into it,” by which they mean that he doesn’t make them feel guilty about race. Don’t count on the affection continuing forever.
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KEEP HOPE ALIVE?
If it weren’t for the fact that Barack Obama’s campaign is reluctant to run any negative ads, they would be blanketing the airwaves with one of the key moments from Saturday night’s debate: First, you can just feel the frustration coming off Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. She was supposed to […]
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The Unease Factor
It would be grossly unfair to charge that Hillary Clinton is endeavoring to stir up the same kind of fear that George Bush did four years ago. But there is little question that she is trying to make voters feel unsettled.
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Who Will Get the VP Nod?
Bored with the primary horse race? Here’s a rundown of whom the Democratic and Republican candidates should consider for their wingmen.
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SWARTHMOROFASCIST COMES CLEAN.
I feel obligated to chime in on this, since as far as I know, I’m the only TAPPED contributor who attended the sinister kiln in which Swarthmorofascism is fired. Although it’s been a few years now since I graduated, back in my day (the late 1980s), the place was a hotbed of compulsive studying and […]