Here is a piece I published this morning on The Daily Beast. Click on the link to see their fabulous slide show. “I’ve been spending a lot of time reading Lincoln,” President-elect Barack Obama told 60 Minutes recently. “There is a wisdom there and a humility about his approach to government, even before he was …
Yesterday morning, I posted this item on trueslant.com and on playboy.com (I would have put it here, but I forgot): Sometimes nature abhors a vacuum, and sometimes it tortures it. Barack Obama was technically correct when he observed the other week that we only have one president at a time, but as we’re seeing, right …
The New York Times, November 5, 2008
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, in this defining moment, change has come to America.”
Vote Number 400 in District 26 in the Town of Ossining, New York, on November 4, 2008, at approximately 2:30 PM.
In the days before the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy appeared before an adoring, cheering throng at the old Boston Garden. “I do not run for the office of the Presidency after fourteen years in the Congress with any expectation that it is an empty or an easy job. I run for the Presidency …
Since the summer, I’ve pretty regularly been watching Joe Scarborough and his crew on Morning Joe on MSNBC. He’s pretty good–a middle-of-the-road, non-doctrinaire conservative–although he does have a tendency to overtalk his guests and especially his co-host, the long-suffering Mika Brzensinski. Joe has been pretty hard to take the last couple of weeks, as though …
Around noon on a brilliantly sunny Monday (the 27th) in Union Square Park, a robust and multidimentional, if all-black image of the first president overlooks a flat, multicolored image of the first black, 44th overall president.
Writing about last night’s debate on newsweek.com, Richard Wolffe focused on John McCain‘s physical presentation: “He paced up and down in fits and starts as he spoke. He leapt from subject to subject, sound byte to sound byte. Between answers, he sat down and scribbled page after page of notes, then jumped up and paced …
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At Politico.com, Roger Simon asks a panel of Republican war horses if John McCain can still win, and die-hard loyalists to a man, they say “Hell yeah!” Gregg Muller, an advisor to Steve Forbes and Pat Buchanan, says “McCain can definitely win the race. . . . He needs to define Obama’s agenda as dangerous …