At left is your very own Veep-stakes bingo card (print and collect the entire set) as Barack Obama and John McCain play that time-tested game of finding someone who will bring them victory in 1-4 key swing states and then can be ignored for 8-years because they are willing to step into the background. Haven’t […]

Hillary Clinton’s noon farewell speech (which began at 12:48) was HER moment. Flipping through BBC/SKY/CNN/FOX coverage as 11:30 became 12:30 with cameras focussed on the empty stage and an idling Secret Service SUV at her home, two miles from the venue, was irritating. Instead of being fully in the moment, we were held hostage by […]

The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a […]

Can we come out now and go back to our lives? No? Barack has won but Hillary has not conceded? Aaaaargh! I feel like I did living in LA during the OJ Simpson trial. Will the government offer any counselling or addiction relief therapy to political junkies who will have scant little to do between […]

The new magic number of 2,118 delegates to nominate is here and now that Michigan and Florida have been seated via compromise, it appears we have a nominee, even though we have a fractured party. So I spent this past weekend thinking about a new business and T-shirt ideas for this coming week announcing the […]

The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split […]

I felt today a cross between Bobby, the unmarried suffering star of the 70’s hit musical Company and country singer Lorrie Morgan, who sang the 1998 country music hit ‘Go Away.’ The “I’m conceding, no I’m not” antics of the Clinton campaign today have been tragic to follow. Bobby struggled though George Furth’s 11 scatological, 1-act plays set […]

In yet another incident of foot in mouth disease, Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday voiced the unspoken/unthinkable fear of many by cravenly invoking the horrible memory of 1968’s assassination of Bobby Kennedy in California before a group of South Dakota news editors. Her half-hearted apology for the gaffe seemed as self-protecting and disingenuous as her explanation […]

We wrote about the so-called “nuclear option,” Senator Hillary Clinton is hoping to invoke during the 31 May Convention Rules and By-Law committee meeting. Simply, she wants to use her 13-supporting delegates to push through the seating of the entire Florida and Michigan delegations at full strength.
Florida and Michigan did not play by party rules […]

Victory Plan for Hillary (click to see full article on nyt.com)
By GAIL COLLINS/Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times Online
Published: May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. Trounced Barack Obama, who is consistently described as the inevitable presidential nominee.
Hard to know exactly what to do with this information.