Sam Boyd

The big news today is Barack Obama‘s speech (video here) on race (he wrote it himself apparently) which seems to have been generally well recieved (haven’t had a chance to watch it yet myself). See Ezra, Dana, and Kate for favorable reviews and somewhat less positive reactions from The National Review courtesy of Kevin Drum. […]

The most striking thing I’ve read today was this column by the AP’s Ron Fournier. Ostensibly it describes the political risks for Obama of appearing “arrogant” and claims, in Fournier’s typically harsh language, that he “oozes a sense of entitlement” and so on. Fournier’s opinion is certainly one a reasonable observer could come to, but […]

Just in time for the LR’s deadline, Obama releases a great, clear, and convincing statement explaining his relationship with his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Even better, it looks like all three campaigns are going to eschew your-pastor-is-a-nutjob arguments, which is refreshing. The Obama campaign is trying to register thousands of Republicans and Independents as Democrats in […]

So video has emerged of a speech from last Christmas given by Barack Obama‘s then-pastor Jeremiah Wright (who has since retired) and current member of an honorary advisory committee to the campaign. The speech is impassioned and very anti-Hillary but basically true though incomplete. Most positions of power in the United States are in fact […]

It’s really the week for New Yorkers to act a fool, isn’t it? Today, in a brave attempt to detract attention from Spitzer, Geraldine Ferraro went on numerous television shows to assert that criticism of her remarks is racist. Her substantive point — that the Obama campaign cries racism whenever it is attacked — is […]

Comedian (and I use that term loosely) Sinbad today mocked Hillary Clinton for arguing that a trip she went on with him and Sheryl Crow represented a test of her foreign policy chops. This is what happens when you exaggerate your resume — you get mocked by relics of the 90s. Meanwhile, there’s an election […]

New York governor Eliot Spitzer has been caught hiring a prostitute (he’s already offered a classic bad apology) despite his repeated prosecutions of prostitution rings as attorney general. Even if he was only a client, he should resign, because his actions reveal such all-consuming arrogance and monumental stupidity that the man shouldn’t be allowed to […]

Political reporters would have to be complete morons to take seriously the idea that Obama is being unfairly negative. I mean, he criticizes Clinton for not releasing her tax returns (which is a routine campaign issue and which she hit Senate opponent Rick Lazio for in 2000) and her campaign compares him to Ken Starr?! […]

Well March 4th has come and gone and now we’re … right where we were before except Clinton has about ten extra pledged delegates and now we’ll be waiting a month and half for results in Pennsylvania instead of Ohio and Texas. Oh, and McCain will certainly be the Republican nominee whereas yesterday … he […]

Clinton seems to have been remarkably effective at convincing the press that it’s being too hard on her. This has left the Obama campaign somewhat gobsmacked, but it is finally responding. Former DNC chairman Don Fowler is a longtime Clinton supporter, but his wife Carol Khare Fowler has just come out for Obama. But wait, […]