(Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)
Sen. John McCain “has taken a step towards accepting public financing in the general election — a move that would provide an $84 million infusion for his presidential campaign, but also limit its spending and potentially put him at a steep disadvantage to a better-funded Democratic opponent,” according to The Politico.
This […]
(Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)
While Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign advertisements “have boasted that she is best prepared for a 3 a.m. crisis phone call, her recently released first lady schedules contain no evidence that Clinton was at the table during major national security decisions,” the Washington Post reports.
“They do not list her as attending […]
(Via MyDD.)
Richardson will appear with Obama at a rally at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, at 9:30 AM western. That should be pretty big– tickets are actually being scalped to the event.
I’m pretty surprised by this endorsement. It makes you wonder if this is the ticket in the works. There are no primaries left […]
(Via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall.)
The ‘Surge’ is working? Try reading Fareed Zakaria’s new column on just how poorly things are going on the ground. McCain’s opponents may seize on what may possibly be the beginning of an uptick in violence in the country. But that’s really secondary to the […]
(Via Newsvine - democrats.)
The Democratic Party is in a bit of a pickle. As their primary race drags on and the two camps in it become increasingly embittered, John McCain’s moderate demeanor makes his selection by the Republicans look absolutely genius.
(Via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed.)
Basketball fans across the country are ditching work and gearing up for March Madness, and Barack Obama is no exception. While he’s still maintaining his campaign schedule, Obama filled out a bracket and paid $10 to get into a pool with his traveling staff. Do his picks for […]
(Via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed.)
A McCain campaign aide actively pushed an incendiary, racially-charged video that uses the controversial words of Barack Obama’s pastor to tar Obama as unpatriotic — despite the fact that McCain himself has suggested that Obama shouldn’t be held accountable for Wright’s views.
The aide, Soren Dayton, who works […]
(Via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed.)
decade after al-Qaeda issued a global declaration of war against America, U.S. spy agencies have had little luck recruiting well-placed informants and are finding the upper reaches of the network tougher to penetrate than the Kremlin during the Cold War, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials.
Some […]
(Via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed.)
Chris Matthews showed up on Ellen Wednesday wearing his dancing shoes. After some shuffling and arm moves, he swung host Ellen around, grabbed her boob and near-tackled her to the beat. On Thursday, instead of doing a monologues, Ellen did a moment-by-moment dissection of what went down. She […]
(Via Huffington Post.)
The speech Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday morning has been viewed more than 1.6 million times on YouTube and is being widely e-mailed. While commentators and politicians debated its political success Wednesday, some around the country were responding to Mr. Obama’s call for a national conversation about race.
Religious groups and academic bodies, already […]
