I must say it, even though it might be unpopular..I felt sorry for Barack Obama last night.
What a shame that his words had to be lost once again in the rhetoric (and plea for money) from one (at least at this writing) candidate.
Having watched all three speeches, I can only summarize this way:
John [...]

This may be only the thoughts of one writer but when I read this paragraph (particularly the final sentence), it made me silently scream NO!
It’s called scorched earth. The Clintons are not accustomed to losing and it seems they’re going to make the Democratic party pay for not choosing her. This primary may end up [...]

After the drubbing Hillary Clinton took last night in North Carolina and the too close for comfort win in Indiana for her, it appears even she recognizes now Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president.
She has cancelled all public appearances for Wednesday after lending her campaign another 6.4 million dollars. The question she [...]

An entertaining overview of the democratic race is what this video provides. Full of facts and laced with humor, it is well worth the few minutes it requires for viewing.
Enjoy!

Video Courtesy of Slate Magazine

Glenn Reynolds uses one word to describe the implications of this article.
I agree.

New Mexico Governor and presidential hopeful Bill Richardson has had a good third quarter in fund-raising, raising about $5.2 million, bringing his yearly total to about $18 million.
The third quarter is usually a slow quarter in fund-raising because everyone is already tapped out.
This puts Richardson in a strong fourth place for the Democratic race for [...]

The Democrats seem to have a candidate for the Presidency who has a bit of a problem with being less than truthful.
For those who need a bit of a refresher course in some of Mrs. Clintons prevarications,(although I know some would call it political “spin” this should help.
As Hillary Clinton rises in [...]

According to The Telegraph in the UK, a leaked Democratic poll shows the concern some in the Democratic party have over a Hillary Clinton presidential nomination.
A leaked Democratic poll has suggested that Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner in the race for the party’s presidential nomination, could lose the 2008 election because of her “very polarised image”. [...]

The Democratic presidential candidates are promising universal health care, billions on bridges, universal pre-kindergarten and more funding for cancer research.
How do they plan to pay for them? By ending the present tax cuts on people in the $200,000 to $250,000 and up income range.
The problem is those cuts are in effect until 2010 [...]

Former Senator and current presidential candidate John Edwards has said Americans should sacrifice SUVs to save on fuel.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group that he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.
“I think Americans are actually willing to sacrifice,” Edwards said [...]

Hillary Clinton is being criticized by other Democratic presidential candidates for a statement she made regarding a possible new terrorist attack on the United States.
Fellow democrats blasted Hillary Clinton yesterday for speculating about the political fallout of a potential terrorist attack before the 2008 election, accusing her of exploiting voters’ fears to bolster her campaign.
“Frankly, [...]

Well I guess Mr. Edwards tactics of attacking Hillary and Obama are driving him further down in the polls.
– Potential Democratic primary voters see Sen. Hillary Clinton as more experienced and a stronger leader than her major rivals for the 2008 Democratic nomination, according to a poll released Monday.
Clinton is also viewed as the [...]

I find myself agreeing with the last paragraph.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards recently defended taking a lucrative book contract from a publisher controlled by Rupert Murdoch — whose News Corp. empire Edwards has sharply criticized — by insisting that “every dime” of his $500,000 advance went to charity.
Left unmentioned by Edwards, however, was that [...]

By now everyone knows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are still arguing over an answer given in the YouTube debate on Monday night.
The question was: “Would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and [...]

I realize that this is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable but it’s still news.
If it offends you, I apologize in advance.
The Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese and Melissa Etheridge will question Democratic candidates in Los Angeles in a first-ever debate on gay issues, sponsored by LOGO and HRC. It will take place [...]

Read this report from Politico and you will see there are differences in the Democratic party as to how far to go anti-war in the campaign.
As George McGovern is loosely quoted as saying, it wins the primary but it doesn’t win the general election.
For Democrats of a certain age, there is no figure more haunting [...]

From the Senator who was found to be a plagiarizer in his last campaign for president, comes the unforgettable and hateful words that President Bush is “brain dead.”
And we wonder why there is no respect for the president when people in positions of power say stupid things like this.
DES MOINES — Joseph Biden, the Delaware [...]

I guess the Republicans are in for long time out of power. What happened?
Campaign contributors to the 2008 presidential candidates heavily favored Democrats in the three-month period that ended Saturday, giving three dollars to the party’s leading contenders for every two dollars they gave to the top Republican candidates.
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s 258,000 contributors since [...]

Yesterday the Supreme Court rejected Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, Wa., diversity plans because they were based solely on race for school assignments but the Court left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.
The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court’s judgment. The court’s four liberal justices dissented.
The districts “failed [...]

Anti war protestors at Memorial Day parades may be expected in today’s climate but when a Presidential candidate encourages this action…well judge for yourself.
Edwards backs off call for Memorial Day war protests
Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards has been urging supporters to demonstrate against the war at Memorial Day parades. The Hill reported a week ago [...]

Bob Shrum, political adviser to many Democrats including Al Gore and John Kerry, started out before the 2004 campaign as a supporter of John Edwards.
That soon changed, as this story in The New Republic shows:
Shrum discovered Edwards during the North Carolinian’s first Senate campaign in 1998. Shrum writes that, after his encounter with Edwards, [...]

Speech including airfare and travel: $55,000
Haircut: $400
Hypocricy: Priceless to other Democratic candidates
Story here.
I seriously doubt Edwards will be the Democratic nominee for president or the running mate this time as he didn’t do such a good job of being a running mate last time.
If he stays in the top three and things tighten up [...]

Sometimes it doesn’t always take a big-name candidate to be the best candidate for his party’s presidential nomination. If I were a Democrat I’d vote for this guy in the primary.

Of all the declared candidates in the two major parties’ races for nomination for the office of President of the United States is there just one who is actually qualified to be president if we start picking apart their stands on issues important to us?
It appears to me we are being forced to choose between [...]

I’ll let the op-ed speak for itself:
Stop me if you’ve read this column before.
In 1999, I wrote a dreamy tribute to then presidential candidate Bill Bradley and commented: “I don’t believe that I will ever live in a country that elects Bill Bradley president. I’d like to live in that country, though.”
In 2002, 27 [...]

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is calling for higher taxes:
SAN DIEGO — Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said yesterday raising taxes for higher-income families back to their levels under the Clinton administration is a floor, not a ceiling, and he would consider even higher tax increases.
“What I believe is the starting [...]

From the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire:
The subject of hedge funds came up tonight and two top contenders — John Edwards and Hillary Clinton — had only good words for the investment pools that others in their party have come to see as symbols of unchecked financial excess, of the rich and for the [...]

According to this Washington Times story fundraisers in the Democrat party are not so eager to raise money for Mrs. Clinton these days due to the pressure they say they are getting from her campaign.
An increasing number of Democratic fundraisers — alienated by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s strong-arm tactics against prospective donors — are [...]

Check the photo on this Drudge piece.
It’s being called the equivalent of a paparazzi gotcha:
A snapshot of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and his chief political/media adviser David Axelrod — taken in the Senator’s Capitol Hill office!
ROLL CALL reports: Congressional ethics rules forbid the use of federal office space for political and campaign [...]

What is it about the Democrat presidential candidates that they fear having a debate partially sponsored by Fox News?
A debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and Fox News for September has been nixed by Senator Barack Obama. Since he’s the only member of the CBC who is running, it gives an excuse [...]