Ever since Bitter-gate broke last month, I’ve been trying to figure out how the media could knowingly side with Hillary Clinton and John McCain– two Washington lifers, both worth at least $100 million– in painting a black man raised by a single mother on food stamps who a little over a decade ago was making […]

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John McCain’s latest line of attack on Barack Obama, regarding Obama’s peripheral association with William Ayers:
I think not only a repudiation, but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people.
The phrase “unrepentant terrorist” in reference to Ayers has been repeated ad nauseum by McCain and surrogates […]

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This is not so much a note to the superdelegates, who have made clear that they absolutely will not be caught dead doing what it is they were designed to do: saving their party from internal annihilation.  This is a note to voters– the great unwashed masses who seem to be the last thing standing between us and […]

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These types of ads are just too easy to make.

Take away the “D” and “R” tags and McCain might have a shot. But the war is too unpopular, the economy is too in the tank, and both McCain and Bush seem to have the exact same remedy for every American problem: Stay the course.
Republicans […]

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So after months of this blog basically being me talking to myself, I check in on things tonight and there’s a sudden crushing avalanche of traffic.

Yep, that’s TWP, somehow on the front page of Digg, sandwiched in between HuffPo and the Boston Globe. Crazy. But I guess one of the advantages of that is you […]

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Without a doubt, this was a poorly-worded statement on the part of Barack Obama:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, […]

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Barack Obama plays chicken with YouTube and loses:

For the record, the exact exchange in question between McCain and a town hall questioner went like this:
QUESTIONER: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years…
McCAIN: Maybe 100. We’ve been in South Korea… We’ve been in Japan for 60 years, we’ve been in South […]

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In defense of John McCain, the problem with being old is that at some point you’re going to be on the wrong side of history. In 1987, as the senator of a state (Arizona) with a miniscule black population, it’s not hard to imagine why McCain wasn’t as well versed on Dr. King and the […]

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A friend of mine emailed me the other day over this mosaic posted at HuffPo:

It’s a picture composed with the faces of the 4,000 U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq (minus a few unavailable photos). My friend wrote me to say that it was an unfair cheap shot, and that it’s unproductive for war opponents to express […]

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A lot of people have been making noise about this video of McCain getting into a mildly heated exchange with a reporter.  There’s a million stories out there about McCain’s supposedly legendary temper, but if this is the best example the Democrats can get up on YouTube between now and November, it’ll be a non-issue.

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As of 1:00am, Hillary Clinton has won in both Ohio and Rhode Island and is holding a small lead in Texas, thus likely decimating my near-perfect prediction record.  You have to give her credit.  Who else could have lost 11 straight contests over a span of four weeks– never coming closer than 15 points in any of them– only to […]

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Several people have noticed a difference between Barack Obama’s handling of Louis Farrakhan with his handling last year of Donnie McClurkin, the pastor who made a number of controversial statements about homosexuality.  When pressed about McClurkin’s support last October, Obama said this:
One of the things that always comes up in presidential campaigns is, if you’ve got multiple supporters all […]

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A lot of recent developments on the Hussein issue.  Here’s just a few, including some morning after thoughts on the piece I posted last night.
• I suggested that regarding Bill Cunningham’s Husseinified outburst Tuesday, perhaps Barack Obama should inform John McCain that no apology was necessary.  But apparently, Cunningham on his radio show in the past has referred to Obama […]

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I missed the real bombshell in the Washington Post’s (affair-free) version of the McCain-lobbyist story, but the Obama campaign didn’t.  A number of news outlets are also beginning to pick up on this eyebrow-raising anecdote, which shows– in a different, but equally effective way than the New York Times article– just how deeply connected John McCain is to […]

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In a Q&A session with readers, Bill Keller, the executive editor at the New York Times, pretty much echoes what I said yesterday about the article on John McCain’s relationship with Vicki Iseman.  The point wasn’t whether or not McCain’s relationship with her ever became romantic.  The point was that for a politician who has made a career preaching […]

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