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When All Else Fails, Wear the Pin »

What does Barack Obama do when he realizes he will lose WV by a landslide?

The Obama Democrats’ Ostrich Moment »

The full-court press to force Hillary from the presidential race ain’t working. She will win the West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico primaries.
But the screwed-up, patchwork system the Democrats are using to choose delegates has given small states, which are unlikely to be in the Democratic column come November, inordinate influence. […]

Massachusetts: The Canary in the Coal Mine »

The Clinton Team has a message for America after Pennsylvania, and it’s not spin. It’s a serious question every American and every Democrat should be asking: Why didn’t Obama win Pennsylvania?
But after the Obama campaign’s “go-for-broke” Pennsylvania strategy, after their avalanche of negative ads, negative mailers and negative attacks against Sen. Clinton, after their […]

The Chicago Three: Obama, Ayers & Rezko »

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Overview: This is a story of big-city behind-the-scenes politics — of scratch-my-back and I’ll-scratch-yours backroom dealings. It is a story of how Bill Ayers and Barack Obama — sitting on a charitable board (for which they were paid) — aided and abetted the lucrative real estate development projects of Obama’s former law firm associate […]

So Who Is This Bill Ayers?? »

So who is Bill Ayers, you ask? Nobody in particular if you are an Obama Fan. I mean Obama Rocks!!!! Yes We Can!! I mean all Ayers was is just the leader of the terrorist group the Weather Underground in the ’70s. Ohhhhhhhhhh pooh pooh, Obama fans say! That’s a longggggg time ago!!! Barack was […]

What is Past is Prologue »

John B. Judis, co-author with Ruy Teixeira of the superb The Emerging Democratic Majority, has a piece today in TNR on the damage Snob-gate has done to Obama. Judis is a respected observer of demographics and voting trends, and his words in this article are perhaps too cautious for his larger point. Superdelegates and Party […]

Snob-gate, Class War, and a Chance to Redefine the Party »

It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith.
– The Meaning of Liberalism John F. Kennedy
The civil war now being waged in the Democratic Party gives us an opportunity to redefine liberalism and the Party itself. The sexism and […]

Reality Infection Program (codename Obama) »


Unelectable »

The message coming out of the Clinton campaign on Sunday is that Obama has rendered himself unelectable.
On Sunday, Obama said Hillary should be ashamed for bringing up Snob-gate.
The Clinton Team fired back with this:

Sen. Clinton does know better — she knows better than to condescend and talk down to voters like Senator Obama […]

It’s About the Electability, Stupid »

There are a lot of tags above this story, aren’t there. But that’s because this piece addresses all of those concerns — including several must-reads on the ‘net about Obama’s iffy chances in a general election:

“Obama Puts Democrats in Peril” and “Electability Is Name of the Game,” from TheStreet.com, and
“Grand Unified Theory of […]