I don't care if his ratings are phenomenal, and I don't care that he has the best hair of all the network anchors, Keith Olbermann had to go. In the last five months he has displayed a panache for jackassery and saccharine pro-Democrat bias, two facets of his "journalistic style" that have made it a [...]
And in related news ... Come and get 'em: Free Hillary Clinton campaign materials. What, they don't even want to drink from a Hillary mug anymore? – Amanda Hess
LL's on the scene at the Kennedy Rec Center in Shaw, where Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans is holding his re-election kickoff party.
In the company of council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Evans announced minutes ago he's throwing his support behind Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Evans had been [...]
There is one clear benefit to Hillary Clinton dropping out of the Democratic Primary race: We won't have to see/hear/watch Terry McAuliffe anymore.
He's become Hillary's master hype man. Before and after every primary, he pops up on TV to scrub facts, chase away scary numbers, and airbrush Hillary's latest gaffs. While he hasn't quite earned [...]
Dear Hillary:
I am sure that I am not part of your PowerPoint presentation. I don't count in your world. I'm a marginally over-educated white boy who doesn't think much of your gas-tax relief plan, your fighter cred, nor your previous attempts at YouTube viral video. I don't buy your big-state argument, your blue-collar argument, nor [...]
Just kidding. But while you're waiting, why not consider someone else who's yet to officially quit but still has no chance whatsoever?
It's everything I ever feared: The eyes of the world are on a Lake County, Ind., election.
Lake County—fondly referred to by its denizens simply as "the Region"—is where I was born and raised. And it's pretty much where I got my conception of what urban politics is all about.
If you've been watching cable TV, [...]
If Catholics prefer Hillary, and Guam is overwhelmingly Catholic, then how did Obama win Guam? Is it the islander connection—Obama being from Hawaii, which is the New York of Micronesia? Is it, as Slate suggests, that Catholics generally prefer Hillary because they don't want to support a non-Caucasian candidate—which presumably isn't an issue [...]
In the culmination of a nearly four-month, sometimes controversial, and always confusing process, the D.C. Democratic State Committee last night selected the last three members of the District's delegation to the Democratic National Convention in August. Councilmembers Muriel Bowser of Ward 4 and Jack Evans of Ward 2 both earned voting slots, as did Ward [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty might be a Barack Obama supporter, but his hand-picked education czar is opting for a different approach, at least when it comes to improving schools. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, in comments on Thursday night at a gathering of the Korean-American Coalition's D.C. chapter, endorsed the education plan of Arizona Republican John [...]
Wired has the best stuff on the juicy scandal still percolating with D.C.-based Women's Voices. Women's Vote, which admits to being behind some high-tech "anonymous" phone calls going to primarily black households in North Carolina. The calls from a Lamont Williams imply improper voter registration and give instructions on re-registering, only the voters there have [...]
Breaking news from Kokomo, IN: Obama's got game. But with plenty of folks calling the state a must-win for the Illinois senator, one hopes his rebound skills aren't confined to the basketball court.
City issues don't seem to come up too frequently in the presidential campaigns. Sure, policies pertaining to health care, housing, and the economy all affect urban environments. But, they also affect suburban and rural places as well. Somehow, my name got put on a media list to receive press releases from Hillary Clinton's campaign. [...]
The mystery of the missing delegate ballots has been solved. This morning, Democratic State Committee member Stephen P. Gorman took the blame.
"I was the one who threw away the ballots." Gorman wrote in an e-mail he sent to the committee's membership this morning. "...I did so because I was unaware of the custom and mandate [...]
Last Thursday evening, members of the D.C. Democratic State Committee met and elected four delegates and various other party positions. In the hottest contest of the night, Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.—a Hillary Clinton supporter at the time—edged out Barack Obama backer Miriam Sapiro by two votes.
Now, despite the close tally, no one has [...]
