It was refreshing to see an angry but steady Barack Obama cut off Rev. Wright at his knees. I thought the tone was pitch perfect and -- absolutely justified, of course.
Now, with a week to go before the May 6 primaries, and with Hillary pandering about a meaningless gas tax and McCain not flinching from [...]

Granma always said no good deed goes unpunished.
Just ask Barack Obama. He went through some painful contortions to not toss Reverend Jeremiah Wright off a pier last month and, instead, made his rather wonderful speech about race.
His payback? Reverend Wright's rather horrifying, national magical mystery tour that erupted Monday at the National Press Club. [...]

I'll be  on C-Span Book TV live today at 12 noon PST.  From The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I'll be moderating a panel of four authors on California-centered biographies. Tune in or TiVo.

No post-Pennsylvania bounce for HRC.
Meanwhile, from Slate:

Cancel your cable news subscriptions, folks. Head-scratching time is over for you. I figure out for you What It All Means post-Pennsylvania. It's all contained in the below podcast/radio show from today's edition of "Air Talk" on Los Angeles-area public radio station KPCC. Host Larry Mantle had me on for an hour, and I refrained [...]

 
As the good tidings for Hillary Clinton came in Tuesday night, Philly Mayor Michael Nutter told an amped crowd of her supporters that, as far as he’s concerned, “a win is a win.”

The Mayor is absolutely right. With a comfortable ten points of margin, Hillary Clinton handily won the Pennsylvania primary. Equally [...]

Zero hour in Pennsylvania.
Or is it? We've had to somehow fill the gap of the  six weeks since the last primary, so we've sort of convinced ourselves that something momentous is about to happen Tuesday in Pennsylvania. Fact is, it's highly unlikely that the results of the voting will have some game-changing impact on the [...]

Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the still evolving collapse in Zimbabwe is the role of moral mute being played by the president of the region's great superpower -- Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
As my good pal Biped Twilight pointed out a week ago, if Mbeki had given the situation just a firm, little [...]

A week after Obama's "Bittergate" and in the spirit of equanimity, it is now Hillary's turn.
A previously unrevelaed audio tape secured by our friend, colleague, journalist and blogger Celeste Fremon, captures Clinton telling a small group of funders that her real problem is... Democrats! You know, that pesky "activist base" who are relentless in taking [...]

Here's my take on the shamefully shallow ABC-sponsored Obama/Clinton debate Wednesday night.

I tried to stay out of the over-heated gusting that blew through the comments section of my previous post (below) on Bittergate.  Sorry to be a bit patronizing here, but what the heck. But I just love it when folks who have NO idea what they're talking about on a certain matter have such sharp [...]

***Update***The latest updates on this story come from Jay Rosen, from The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
 
As the editorial coordinator of HuffPost’s OffTheBus project, I had the privilege and responsibility of doing the final edit and ultimately approving for publication the web story Friday that has set off a firestorm over [...]

Here's my opening shot.
You know spring has come to Washington. Not just the cherry blossoms. But the flowering of all those pie charts and bar graphs lugged up Capitol Hill by General Petraeus. And then there's that unmistakeable whiff of cow dung in the morning air.

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Want to have some fun? Or, shall we say, something like fun -- but different. Then click here and paw through the droppings left on our comments door step by a flock of Hillaryite cyber-angels. Apparently, last night's post was circulated on some Clinton list-serve or another and, lo and behold, all of a sudden [...]

I'm having a pretty good laugh reading the comments on The Caucus blog about the sudden resignation of Mark Penn, chief Hillary Clinton campaign strategist.  I LOVE the Hillaryoids clucking away that this is the best darn thing that's ever happened to their gal.
Right. Great news! Wonderful! Marvelous!
Poor victimized Hillary.  After that tough, tough life [...]

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No. Not Howard Dean. Just Dean -- Dean Armstrong.
No sooner did I promise to start daily blogging about the presidential race, do I veer off on a completely different subject. One very close to my heart.
The guy standing next to me in that picture, snapped two weeks [...]