The United States Senate is a body that has an amazing capacity for wanting to have it both ways. For example, Social Security is doing fine, they say, but senators don’t pay into it; there’s a separate account that takes care of them when they retire. So we, the public should believe that Social […]
Having their Cake and eating it too—what happens when Senators run for President Read More »
Note to Readers: The “What’s New” section has been updated. One thing I came to truly appreciate from my work on the book Public Pillars/Private Lives was that every President has an inspirational story. You might hate a given President’s politics, you might even hate his guts, but you’ve got to acknowledge that each one’s
Campaign 2008—Three Inspirational Stories Read More »
In the world of sports, there’s an old saying that some experts like to invoke whenever a big upset occurs: That’s why we play the games. In early November of 2008 we might hear this phrase applied to the world of Presidential Politics. The Republicans seem to be working against almost every disadvantage—the economy
“McCain vs. Obama/Clinton? It’s Why We Play the Games” Read More »
If you had asked Hillary Clinton a year ago where she thought she would be now, she would probably have said that she’d be the Democratic nominee and that she would be busy working over her Republican counterpart, and a lot of the experts would have agreed with her. Instead, the Republican in question, John
A Tough Time to be a Clinton Read More »
For both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama it has been a rough week. A long time Clinton aide slung the dirtiest mud of all in this mudslinging season, and the country learned that one of Obama’s best friends is (arguably) a racist. But for both candidates things could be worse. Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has
For Clinton and Obama, the Virtues of Distractions Read More »
