Barack Obama
President-elect Barack Obama is keeping a low profile today. As Mr. Obama begins looking forward to his term, what advice would you give him on moving the nation forward, healing the partisan divide and dealing with crises on multiple…
President-Elect Barack Obama
People are crying in Harlem, screaming in Chicago and celebrating all over the United States as CNN calls the election for Barack Obama.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois now is the first African-American elected president of the United…
William Hogarth: The Election I: An election entertainment (1754)
As near as we can tell, the 2008 presidential election first was referenced in the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 23, 2003, when then-New York Times columnist William Safire threw out the first name:…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin round-up:
Mitt Romney says let her speak. Yep. The same Romney thought to be on the VP short list.
Biden beware.
Conservative columnists are not getting in line. Or rather, they are getting out of line.
But when you knock her…
Technology whiz John McCain invented the BlackBerry. Really. His aide said so himself. (Because there’s nothing better to talk about.)
Just like Al Gore invented the Internet.
And Carly Fiorina, a McCain adviser, was on KTRS today. Anybody listen? On McGraw Millhaven’s show, she said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could not…
So, some blogs (lefty blogs, if you insist, and I know you will) are making a big deal out of Sarah Palin’s umpteenth repeat of the “So, I said ‘thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere” claim.
I think it’s…
John McCain’s speech should be interesting, coming the night after his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, rocked the house, rooting the base firmly in his camp.
He is expected to lay out policy in detail, to give further information on…
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain promised a surprise for his vice presidential pick, and he delivered.
He named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin this morning as his running mate.
She’s not well known now, but her face will be everywhere for the next…
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president tonight. There is no denying that it was a historic event.
Did you watch the speech? What did you think? Did his speech meet your expectations? Exceed them? Did he mention the…
A hedge fund manager disappears in murky circumstances. Maybe suicide, maybe not.
One member of Obama’s vice president search committee has quit after a “special mortgage” he received from troubled bank Countrywide was made public.
Talk of the Nation today featured a discussion…
Is it the end?
Hillary Clinton has announced a major speech in New York Tuesday night, leading some to speculate that she will suspend her hard-fought campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. Note, though, that it’s suspend, not end. (Read…
President George W. Bush made a veiled reference to Barack Obama while in Israel yesterday, setting off a political firestorm back in the states. Bush said that people seeking talks with Iran and radical Islamic groups are like those who…
