Arianna Huffington from CaglePost.com Columns by Arianna Huffington from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Arianna+Huffington Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ TIM GEITHNER, CNBC AND THE SECOND COMING OF KNOWN UNKNOWNS A formerly famous and now mostly forgotten poet of nonsense verse once said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns . . . there are also unknown unknowns." That was, of course, Donald Rumsfeld, but it... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6575c08a-6474-4461-ba38-b8649db8d6b4.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT TIM GEITHNER, CNBC AND THE SECOND COMING OF KNOWN UNKNOWNS A formerly famous and now mostly forgotten poet of nonsense verse once said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns . . . there are also unknown unknowns." That was, of course, Donald Rumsfeld, but it... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e479406f-5719-435b-95be-b24daf7d419e.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT TIM GEITHNER, CNBC AND THE SECOND COMING OF KNOWN UNKNOWNS A formerly famous and now mostly forgotten poet of nonsense verse once said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns . . . there are also unknown unknowns." That was, of course, Donald Rumsfeld, but it... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e27e3491-abc3-49ae-9d39-a06adfb506f8.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Memo To The Media: Having Rove On To Pontificate On The Economy Is Like Having Madoff On To Pontificate On Investing Rahm Emanuel recently declared on "Face the Nation" that Rush Limbaugh is "the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party." This is a useful stance for the Obama administration. As David Frum puts it: "With his private plane and his ci... http://www.caglepost.com/article/90bc6475-2c2b-44ca-b172-0d9f8541b390.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino Hot on the heels of the banking crisis, the employment crisis and the mortgage-foreclosure crisis, the country is on the verge of experiencing a credit-card crisis. According to the Federal Reserve, the total outstanding credit card debt carried by A... http://www.caglepost.com/article/62a9ccbf-8f6c-4ae6-91a3-b570176fedbc.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT It's Time To Treat America's HomeOwners As Well As We've Been Treating Wall Street's Bankers If you were to make a pie chart showing the amount of attention given to the banking part of the financial crisis -- both by the government and by the media -- and the amount of attention given to the foreclosure part, the catastrophe being faced by ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f9ac232d-9ef0-4fd5-a166-946ad6c05f2d.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bipartisanship Fetishism Vs. What's Best For America: Obama Needs To Choose The first question at President Obama's primetime press conference should have been: "Mr. President, what is your priority -- bipartisanship or what is best for America? And when the two are in conflict, which are you going to choose?" Although the a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8e4b2d22-cca3-4d3f-9b33-6796e18a61da.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Stimulus Package: If You Jump Halfway Across A Chasm, You Fall Into The Abyss Here's a thought: If we are going to spend $2 trillion (and most likely more) trying to deal with the economic crisis, shouldn't we do it right? The price of getting it wrong is, after all, extremely high. Think of a patient suffering from a grave vi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bfb3f0d3-09c4-4ac3-9d24-109cae2c7a24.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Era Of Not Getting It: The Marie Antoinettes Of The Meltdown There is plenty of debate about what President Obama's stimulus bill should look like -- as well there should be, given all that is at stake. But there is a growing consensus that the guiding principle in that debate should be Obama's call for a "new... http://www.caglepost.com/article/408fd3b1-b1af-4532-8d3b-f4e5923fdabd.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Sober Sermon On The Steps WASHINGTON, DC -- The new president and the throng that turned out to cheer him and hear him on Inauguration Day were on two very different missions. The crowd had come to celebrate. Obama had come to deliver a sober sermon. I arrived at the Capitol ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1d40778e-195b-4496-8deb-466de2651f0a.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Memo To Obama: Moving Forward Doesn't Mean You Can't Also Look Back The U.S. Constitution is front and center as Barack Obama solemnly swears to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. Given all that has happened over the last eight years, that oath is not nearly as pro-forma as it used to be. During his final press conf... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bb92fd59-14cf-4a22-a156-4ff22edf1fb4.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama Isn'T The Only One Being Inaugurated On Jan. 20 Barack Obama is not the only one being inaugurated on January 20. We all are. And that's not just because Obama has promised to make a call to service "a central cause" of his presidency. It's because this moment in history demands that we stop waiti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c5138275-604b-4e9f-8e35-193205932de1.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bye-Bye 2008: Things I Want To Forget 2008 was a very memorable year, featuring one of the most unforgettable presidential campaigns in history. I'd like to take a moment to focus on the things that happened over the last 12 months that I'd love to forget. Here is my list: That Eliot Spi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f040814b-11cd-46c3-8b60-a93d4e59456a.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Laissez-Faire Capitalism Should Be As Dead As Soviet Communism The collapse of Communism as a political system sounded the death knell for Marxism as an ideology. But while laissez-faire capitalism has been a monumental failure in practice, and soundly defeated at the polls, the ideology is still alive and kicki... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c982ca34-46e8-4416-b4c9-b1952b902cc9.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The 'Who Could Have Known?' Era? See if this sounds familiar: An ambitious and risky undertaking carried out with hubris, and featuring the weeding out of anyone who raises alarm bells, little-to-no transparency, an oversight system in which no central authority is accountable, and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/61da5ff6-43a2-470b-8deb-2140537a737a.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Rewarding Those Who Got It Right Among its myriad failings, the Bush administration has repeatedly gotten it wrong when it comes to getting it right. Over the last eight years, there has consistently been no penalty for those who have gotten things -- even the most important things ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/19d305f7-7cac-4d8c-beaf-d060e37ca343.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Meltdown Will Be Blogged The headline in the LA Times said it all: "Charities Can't Keep Up with Deepening Poverty." America is facing a vicious charity Catch-22: the harsher the downturn, the more people in need of help but the fewer stepping up with donations. "As resource... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5aba54fc-fcf2-4974-9b1d-5a50d2eb9004.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Hillary Plus Obama Equals High Drama It's too early to tell what changes Hillary Clinton will bring to Barack Obama's foreign policy, but she's already had an enormous effect on his brand. Her addition to his team has turned "No Drama Obama" into "Mo' Drama Obama." Hillary's appointment... http://www.caglepost.com/article/54b44185-2ca7-4dff-a3d0-e0e010517202.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama'S Call To Service Meets The Economic Meltdown I recently got a blast e-mail from the Obama campaign. I immediately wondered what I was going to be asked to do: Donate to the Franken campaign? Make calls for Jim Martin down in Georgia? It turned out to be neither. The campaign was letting me know... http://www.caglepost.com/article/56ed8447-9175-418e-9a02-e88b19e5871f.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Can Obama Pull Off A Historic Presidential Double Play? "On or about December 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." We can be much more specific: "On Nov. 4, 2008, just after 11 p.m. Eastern, America changed" (human character remains rather intransigent). The change was driven by two thi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5303ab97-0725-4cf5-b93d-3c16f4ec61b0.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have A Reason To Celebrate Even if your candidate didn't win Tuesday night, you have reason to celebrate. We all do. Ten months ago, when Obama won in Iowa, we had a glimpse of what was possible and what became real Tuesday night. What I wrote then about one state is now true ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/512a73e8-0846-4999-96b7-5ceab61d2417.html Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Should Spill A Little Red Ink To Turn A Few More Red States Blue With less than a week to go before Election Day, both sides are worried. Republicans, while still holding out hope for a "McCain Miracle," are increasingly worried that McCain is losing in a way that, as David Frum put it, "threatens to take the enti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/baadce5a-ef0c-4cad-8026-4cde32a837c5.html Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Internet And The Death Of Rovian Politics Age has finally become an issue for John McCain. But the problem isn't the candidate's 72 years; it's the antediluvian approach of his campaign. McCain is running a textbook Rovian race: fear-based, smear-based, anything goes. But it isn't working. T... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8e5d1092-3cf2-4888-8715-674484ee91d9.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT October Surprise Update: What McCain May Be Planning And What Obama Can Do To Ruin It Political horse-race fans are focusing on Obama's 11-point lead in the new Newsweek poll. But I'm focusing on the 10-point lead McCain has on national security and terrorism -- the only remaining issue voters believe the Republican candidate would be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d1e0f3cb-d333-4518-a577-643f3d56f21c.html Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Winner Of Debate II? 'That One' In Debate II, John McCain twice laid out the criteria for how the American people should judge the candidates: In tough times, we need someone with a steady hand on the tiller. By that measure, Obama was the clear winner. He was centered where McCain... http://www.caglepost.com/article/47a28c29-2904-4f94-be52-8f1985615fe2.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Does McCain Still Agree With Reagan That Government Is The Problem? Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural address, famously declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Twenty-seven years later, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and seve... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d6fc0a6d-fb9c-43d1-a2db-8d57825274be.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Bailout Plan: Welcome To Economic Shock And Awe See if this sounds familiar: There is a gathering threat to the safety of the United States. We must take immediate action. Congress must quickly grant the president and the secretary what they want and also give them full and unfettered authority to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/43e94356-7c22-4119-9932-ea1bf1ea2ab5.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Palin Doctrine: Why The Neocons Are So Excited Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. Or will be -- because it's still currently under construction. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's goin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dac93812-7a1d-4636-b731-012fc4d7fc4e.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sarah Palin: A Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of George Bush Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the "Bridge to Nowhere?" Did she really sell Alaska's plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alas... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7b8335de-da4a-47ed-804a-658776d11a27.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Saving The GOP And The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sarah Palin MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL -- Even without George Bush in the Twin Cities, the GOP cannot escape its miserable record over the last eight years. (Indeed, trying to spot a recognizable Republican in town has become a favorite early-convention game.) So you ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ee380511-7ef3-40aa-a539-a143a5678395.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mccains Vs. Biden: Not All 'Foreign Policy Experience' Is Created Equal DENVER -- Here at the Democratic Convention, there are two conversations going on. One is about the Clintons and their supporters: Did Bill really insist that his speech be about the economy and his legacy instead of national security? What stage of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a7a48665-3ce6-49ef-890a-c67e5207a100.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT It's A Three-Man Race: Obama Vs The Two McCains "How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time and stay silent only when telling the truth might get us fired or earn us a broken nose? We need moral courage to be honest all the time." Those words were written by John McCain in his 2004 bo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e9cb8091-1f96-48fd-83cb-c7273900c57b.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Making The Case That Mccain Isn't 'Ready To Lead' On National Security I know there's plenty to do in Hawaii, but while Barack Obama is on vacation in his home state, allow me to suggest some beach reading for him. It's quite dark, occasionally hilarious, consistently frightening, and may or may not have a happy ending.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a7cb1498-0329-4a4b-bf61-4226a1fd876e.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT 'Swing Vote': What It Tells Us About The '08 Race, And Why Obama Needs To Put Kevin Costner On His Ipod The makers of "Swing Vote," the new film starring Kevin Costner, have pulled off a rare double play, producing a smart political satire that is also heartfelt and moving. It's also a film that turns out to be remarkably relevant to the 2008 race. Cos... http://www.caglepost.com/article/87f06f09-821c-4f92-b7a3-84efbcd5a7ea.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Trip Bounce: Media Obsession With Polls Leads To A Bad Case Of Premature Pontification Isn't it strange that Barack Obama didn't get a bounce from his wildly well-received overseas trip? Oh wait, maybe he did. But, hey, it was just a small bounce. Or was it more of a bump? Perhaps a bouncelet? A hop? A ricochet? A swelling? Or was it a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a1490324-001b-44cc-a8cb-4c659dc0c93f.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Tell Me Again, Why Is Obama's Popularity With Our Allies A Bad Thing? I understand why John McCain's campaign is desperately looking for negatives in Obama's overseas trip. But why have so many in the media internalized the McCain campaign's claptrap? Here is the McCain line on Europe, delivered via Politico by a namel... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ff087b14-fcf0-41aa-bc34-eb48745bac1c.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Latest Media Blind Spot: Viewing All Criticism of Obama Through A Right-Left Prism In the last two weeks, there has been a flurry of stories that has tried to portray criticism of Barack Obama's recent stands as the sole province of disenchanted members of "the left" -- also referred to as "the far left" (New York Times), "left-win... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3114f83a-a3f7-45cf-937b-ae3bc172d6ef.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Surge Amnesia: The Media's Newest Affliction John McCain, aided and abetted by his loving protectors in the media, is running a victory lap on Iraq. To hear them tell it, the surge has "worked" -- indeed, it has been a huge success -- and this, like a last second Hail Mary pass, has vindicated ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8832b267-b55c-4626-a258-ada3c722b31f.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Memo To Obama: Moving To The Middle Is For Losers Last Friday afternoon, the guests taking part in Sunday's roundtable discussion on "This Week" had a pre-show call with George Stephanopoulos. One of the topics he raised was Obama's perceived move to the center, and what it means. Thus began my week... http://www.caglepost.com/article/07c939af-d013-4b9c-8eff-36beb473e51d.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mccain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are The Media Looking The Other Way? Last month, I wrote about the mainstream media's ongoing membership in the John McCain Protection Society and its offshoot, the Swift Boat Media for McCain, and of how their highly motivated efforts are affecting the presidential race. The MSM's over... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d725a641-a41d-4db2-8ff2-dda54261a91d.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT John Mccain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole "Prominent Republicans . . . have been for the first time openly critical" of their candidate's "floundering campaign." The "forces of inertia, arrogance and self-denial will probably conspire to keep the Republican establishment circling the wagons"... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d489c9be-8a0f-41f5-8834-c169b2f90587.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Scotty Come Lately Seven takes on Scott McClellan's new book: Take One: What Took You So Long? In "What Happened," Scott McClellan offers withering portraits of George Bush, Karl Rove, Condi Rice and Scooter Libby, confirms that we went to war in Iraq under false prete... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bc1fe290-ed8c-497f-b963-bf2f74b5e6cb.html Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Unmasking Mccain: His Reactionary Record On Reproductive Rights We've seen the exit polls. We've read the unequivocal quotes. Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Barack Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9c00b279-2ee6-433c-b7c5-8af56036e137.html Wed, 28 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Hillary Clinton's Defeat: A Historic Triumph A front page story in Monday's New York Times wonders whether Hillary Clinton's flagging run for the presidency is "a historic if incomplete triumph or a depressing reminder of why few (women) pursue high office in the first place." Let me quickly we... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b8811947-724c-4ecd-b988-d11f56db78eb.html Wed, 21 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Bipartisanship Scam I recently wrote about how, despite a seismic shift that has brought about the mainstreaming of positions and policies formerly considered "left wing," the traditional media continue to insist on promoting the idea that on almost every issue the trut... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c24649f5-0c66-438a-949c-403a17d48c20.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT What John McCain Told Me, And What It Says About How Far He's Fallen At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. "I didn't vote for George Bush" the man confessed. "I didn't either... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9406ab65-cb31-4e85-9a96-cd6b125c5830.html Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Probing A Political Paradox: Why The Discredited Right Still Sets The Agenda And Dominates The Debate It's a paradox: The political center has clearly shifted; what used to be considered "left wing" positions have now become part of the mainstream, and the views of the right are now at odds with the majority of the American public - and with reality.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2bad3116-8ade-4020-a1d8-17bfe1613075.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Toxic Thinking of The Right Infects The Body Politic One of the main themes of my new book, "Right Is Wrong," is the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party - the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution - to hijack our democr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/41c6bc59-1afe-4137-bcff-37c3a9db85f8.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT John McCain Should Go On Vacation; Hillary Clinton Is Doing His Job For Him Clinton supporters say the darnedest things. Here's Sen. Evan Bayh, commenting on the political firestorm surrounding Barack Obama's remarks - broken on the Huffington Post's OffTheBus - about economically-depressed small town voters: "The far right ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/836c6539-936c-47f7-a285-7cb58ac5cfad.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Petraeus' Call For A Pause Is Really Just 'Stay The Course 2.0' Have you heard the news? "The Surge" is about to end. The next phase of our 100 Year War is "The Pause." Surge, pause . . . surge, pause . . . we can't pull out! It's all starting to sound a bit sexual, isn't it? Gen. Petraeus has recommended that co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f6fe862a-841d-449c-b06e-6bf9c23fe2ee.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Closing The Message Gap On Iraq: A Responsible Plan To End The War When John McCain talks about Iraq, people are often left scratching their heads in amazement and confusion. From his comfort with a hundred-year occupation, to his claim that al-Qaida wants to kneecap his candidacy, to his "gaffes" about an al-Qaida/... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bac305f7-cdf7-4530-adbb-3c7016812828.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT A McCain Moment: Do You Want Four More Years of This? If our polarized country can agree on one thing, it's that the greatest danger facing America over the next decade will not be Islamic extremism and instability in the Middle East, but rather Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. That's just "c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/253e5b4a-2192-45dc-a9be-cb54377f6e90.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT On Clinton's Tax Returns, A 'Frankly Disturbing' Lack Of Transparency It's hard out there for a surrogate. Especially for a Clinton surrogate being asked why Hillary Clinton has not released the last eight years of her tax returns. As congresswoman and Clinton surrogate Nita Lowey made clear on "Meet The Press" last we... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5a15e425-cc81-43db-85af-e1ac3aad72e0.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT GOP Rep. Slimes Obama; John McCain Fails Leadership Test The rank and unrepentant racism of GOP Rep. Steve King has presented John McCain with his first test of leadership since securing the Republican nomination. And he's failing miserably. Faced with King's vile and imbecilic assertion that "the optics" ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ae3803e3-d458-4cdf-adbd-fea7eae88727.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The $3 Trillion War Is A Domestic Issue As our seemingly endless primary process reaches the homestretch and the focus shifts to the general election, we need to pull the plug on the media's disturbing habit of acting as if foreign policy and domestic policy are completely separate entitie... http://www.caglepost.com/article/06645530-5cd1-440b-87d1-921efa6bb11c.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Clinton, Obama AND THE Belief In The Magic Power Of Words Along with her "ready to lead on Day One" mantra, Hillary Clinton's favored line of attack against Barack Obama is the reincarnation of Walter Mondale's 1984 "Where's the beef?" attack on Gary Hart. In Clinton's version, Obama is little more than a s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eb9cf62d-67d7-4c76-a1bd-d0d6b534f700.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Right Strengthens Its Hold On McCain; The Media Refuse To Notice What is it going to take for the media to snap out of its starry-eyed - stuck in 2000 - view of John McCain? Despite an avalanche of evidence showing that McCain the Maverick has long ago been replaced by McCain the Pandering Pawn of the Party's Righ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/59bfdb4d-6660-4f7a-9ce9-0f6ba91dc0a2.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT End Of A Romance: Why The Media And Independent Voters Need To Break Up With John McCain I hate to be the one to break up a love affair, especially with Valentine's Day this week, but I can no longer stand idly by and watch the media and independent voters continue to throw themselves at the feet of John McCain. The John McCain they fell... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c6f20d4b-002d-4676-862a-e60d13c754f2.html Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The 2008 Race For President And The Search For Our Better Selves Watching Sunday's Obama rally in Los Angeles featuring Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver and Michelle Obama, I was struck by a point that both Michelle Obama and Maria Shriver made but that is rarely discussed during a presidential campaign: the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2716b739-659e-46ce-ad48-911a9b0d8920.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bush And Mccain's Displaced Ardor For War When it comes to the war in Iraq, the president and the leading GOP contender to replace him seem to be stuck in a time warp - tossing out applause lines from years gone by and using rhetoric drawn from the Dark Ages of the Iraq debate. There was th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dd5dbba5-404d-4ff8-853a-c2d1e40eae39.html Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Say 'No' To Pollsters!: A Call To Action In 1996, Harry Shearer and I founded the Partnership for a Poll-Free America, a campaign urging people to hang up on the pollsters who are polluting our political environment by dominating media coverage, influencing election outcomes and turning our... http://www.caglepost.com/article/783b0f65-8a13-4947-a111-955506cad0c5.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Debate Shocker: Iraq Returns To The Campaign Spotlight . . . And Hillary Puts IT There LAS VEGAS, Nev. - If I had told you going into Tuesday night's Democratic debate in Nevada that Iraq would come roaring back to the forefront of the campaign, with decisive positioning on the war being done by one of the candidates, how many of you w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/48f00fd9-4bc9-4ad1-ba1f-90cbf2ca39b4.html Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT New Hampshire: Great For Hillary, Crappy For Plotters NASHUA, N.H. - The results from New Hampshire represent a crushing setback. Not for Barack Obama - after all, only three weeks ago he was 12 points behind. No, the biggest losers were the pollsters, who now have to down a heaping helping of humble ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bef17bd7-2dcf-4969-a531-40744f0fdd1f.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Huckabee: The Gop's Cynical Use Of Religion Has Come Home To Roost With Mike Huckabee's continuing surge, the Republican Party now has an Iowa front-runner whose religious beliefs are virtually identical to those of George Bush. He's anti-choice, born-again, against gay marriage, and gets political advice directly f... http://www.caglepost.com/article/40a4edf7-fbab-440f-9049-7ffc8b71b9e6.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Democrats need to admit they have a problem: they are addicted to backing down "Mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support." That is how, according to the Washington Post, officials present characterized the reaction of lawmakers, including Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman, when they were briefed in 200... http://www.caglepost.com/article/74bcf6ce-8f0d-4dcf-b2b0-5725b02fca04.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Karl Rove's Shameless, Remorseless, Soulless Attempt to Rewrite History During an interview with Charlie Rose, the erstwhile Boy Genius pulled out his bucket of whitewash and audaciously claimed that "one of the untold stories" about the war in Iraq is that the Bush administration had been "opposed' to Congress' holding ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e8d1b5d5-1429-402a-af77-c5af24f0db18.html Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT What's That Sound? Why, its the Further Lowering of the Bar on Iraq In Sunday's New York Times, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker was quoted as saying Iraq is "going to be a long, hard slog." Sound familiar? 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Rove's unprecedented use of federal assets for political gain, laid out in this weekend's Washington Post, meant that ev... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c2ac46ed-3144-4335-be9e-96c9b50686bc.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Why are the Media Neglecting a Vital Part of the Utah Mine Collapse Story? The other day, while speaking at the Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and Society, I commented on how the mainstream media have, with a few exceptions, been focusing on only one aspect of the Crandall Canyon Mine tragedy - the desperate atte... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2e4c249d-04a1-4b37-97b5-664273f8d95c.html Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Fraudulent Words and Images: The Accountability Double Standard [Updated] Accountability -- it's all the rage. At least you'd think so if you've been following the story of the Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj, who doctored photos from the war in Lebanon. Once a fraudulent image of Beirut was first exposed by Charles Johnso... http://www.caglepost.com/article/85fbd404-de82-445e-adc3-6a03965140e5.html Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Campaign Alchemy: Candidates Turn Negative Comments Into Fundraising Gold There are many explanations as to why Fred Thompson is coming up light in the fundraising department. Here's another one: People aren't saying enough bad things about him. Welcome to one of the hottest new trends of Campaign 2008: raising money by... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ebd0dd54-87e1-4efa-a366-de9807b544f5.html Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Blowing Off the PR Pixie Dust While Waiting for Petraeus The White House is giving Gen. David Petraeus the most over-the-top PR push since the Segway's inventor predicted, "It's going to change the world." 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Mc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8212ac54-2c5e-4c2b-bea7-eaa2e75a851d.html Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Democrats Cant Wait Around for GOP Defectors to End the War This is the start of a critical stretch on Iraq, with the White House looking to run out the clock until Congress takes its summer vacation, and Senate Republicans struggling to split the Iraq war baby - moving away from the president's stay-the-cour... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3327d16e-10d8-446b-9bde-3d0fc6cee3b6.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Memo to the Media: Libby Outrage is not Confined to the Left Here we go again. No sooner had President Bush commuted the sentence of Prisoner 28301-016 ("Cheney's Cheney" to his pals), and the champagne begun to flow at Mary Matalin's house, than the media launched into its usual, knee-jerk attempt to analyze ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/30024039-3aa5-497e-9c81-e8ab7ce45e99.html Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT A (Secret) Woman In Charge: Hillarys Disturbing Secrecy Problem I spent the weekend reading "A Woman in Charge," Carl Bernstein's biography of Hillary Clinton (OK, I know I'm late) while being simultaneously bombarded with fresh evidence of the Bush/Cheney administration's pathological obsession with secrecy. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/91a9aeb1-e900-4087-919b-d2c60b526b2d.html Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Iraq: The Battle of September Has Already Begun According to the White House - and to the dwindling number of congressional dead-enders still backing the war in Iraq - we have to wait until September to be able to judge whether President Bush's escalation strategy has been a success. Well, I'v... http://www.caglepost.com/article/92a4bbd1-80ab-448b-8b7f-07de45e6dcb4.html Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Democratic Dinosaurs Turn D.C. Into the Land that Time Forgot With each passing day, Washington, D.C. is turning into the Land That Time Forgot. While the rest of the country is dealing with the here and now - exemplified by Bush's puny approval ratings and a new poll showing rural voters turning against the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5bef8e39-e24f-489c-98a3-280ee9e9e102.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Libby Verdict and the U.S. Attorneys Scandal: Two Symptoms of the Same Disease It was fitting that on the same day federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald won a conviction in the Libby trial, up on Capitol Hill six fired federal prosecutors were testifying about their questionable removal from office. Plamegate and the starting-t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/42dbc84a-d09c-4bf5-a52b-218ee8fda266.html Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Why Hillary Clinton was the Winner of the Democratic Debate Sunday night on CNN, I said that Hillary Clinton was the winner of the Democratic debate. The following morning, during a Creative Coalition-sponsored panel at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, N.H., Lawrence O'Donnell, who was moderating, asked m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0ac35fe5-817d-4395-80ea-96d8a32cdd4c.html Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Interviewing Gore: On the Pollution of Our Environment, Our Politics, and Our Souls Well-armed with all your great questions, I interviewed Al Gore over the weekend. After talking with him and reading his book, The Assault on Reason (which will debut at #1 in the New York Times on Sunday), it was clear that he is obsessed with two k... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b92bc188-7069-49db-bf25-ccd7ffb3242b.html Thu, 31 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Notes from the D Conference: An iPhone Tip from Steve Jobs and Genetic Info from 23andMe Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the stage together at the D Conference in Carlsbad, California, in what was billed as a historic reunion (the last time they had been interviewed together was by Fortune magazine in 1991 and a lot has happened since the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c76060cc-d51a-437e-b70b-9450da9a8f65.html Wed, 30 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Her Way: Hillarys Iraq Problem and Why Its Not Going Away That little game of political chicken that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton played during the Senate vote on the Iraq spending bill Thursday night would not have surprised you if you had read "Her Way," the new book by New York Times investigative re... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1291273d-99a5-4058-88de-1cc656d315f1.html Mon, 28 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Congress Needs to Find Out: Did Bush Order Gonzales and Card to Put the Squeeze on Ashcroft? In today's L.A. Times, Jonah Goldberg discusses the ""redemption"" of John Ashcroft and fantasizes that the same image rehab may one day happen for George Bush. Talk about your Extreme Make-Over! I'll save the discussion of the validity of Ashcrof... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2213ff78-f555-4f1b-9b50-bfac7f9fea85.html Tue, 22 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Another Chapter in Hillarys Attempt to Rewrite History on Iraq In a 1939 radio address, Franklin Roosevelt declared, "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." When it comes to Iraq, Hillary Clinton is doing everything in her power to prove him wrong - repeatedly trying to rewrite history and belatedly ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e40ee46d-e030-4a66-8088-20b7764be531.html Mon, 21 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT McCain and Bush: Making a Mockery of Democracy in Iraq It's an odd thing to be running for president while simultaneously denigrating the very idea of democracy. But, then, the Republican Party's relationship to democracy has become, to put it charitably, very odd. Right now, they're barely on speaking t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8f016dff-45cf-4458-8afe-06556c1f3de7.html Thu, 17 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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