More interesting than whether or not little Bristol Palin is pregnant or whether or not she is in fact baby Trig’s mother is the question of whether or not the Palin family’s “private” affairs should be on or off limits in the nation’s ongoing presidential debate. I say that the private lives of the [...]
Pretend you’re on MSNBC or something:
Can the Republicans compete on the national stage without their quadrennial festival of hate? Is the narrowness of Obama’s lead in national polling something to worry about at this point, or will it shake out in a few weeks when people start really paying attention to the race? Is everything [...]
I am sitting at a dining room table in a “vintage” house in suburban Chicago. It is not a big house but it is sturdy and tidy and has a huge elm tree in the front yard. It represents the middle of middle class living in the middle of Middle America. We may have a [...]
I haven’t caught much of the convention. Ted Kennedy was inspiring. Hillary’s speech sounded good on paper, but I haven’t seen the video. I did catch her calling for Obama’s nomination to happen by acclamation, which was a pretty effective piece of political theater, I thought. Bill was pretty great. Biden’s sounding good — “This [...]
My deepest immersion in Republican politics was a crucial step in my becoming a left-winger.
I turned 18 years old in February of 1992 as a senior in high school. It was an election year, and as a confirmed political junkie I was following George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign and the challenge by Bill Clinton, a [...]