David Broder from CaglePost.com Columns by David Broder from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=David+Broder Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ For Obama, Court Cases That Matter The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought. Neither the voting rights case out ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aac0619f-dac9-42a0-98b9-4bf1a754662c.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Guess Who Wishes Bush Was Back In a conversation the other day with a White House official, I heard something I'd never expected from an employee of Barack Obama's. "I wish," he said, "George Bush would speak up a little more." In the five months since he left the presidency, Bush... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1e483619-6523-4880-8727-e44f15f28ad6.html Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Heavy Lifters For A Health-Care Bill Fifteen years ago, when Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle was running interference for the Clintons' effort at health-care reform, his goal in life was to enlist Sen. Bob Dole, the hugely influential Republican leader, as a co-sponsor. Daschle never got hi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/78d1afe2-0b36-4fa4-8879-09aa34c8e847.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Stakes For Obama This Fall It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia would be seen by many people outside those states as a referendum on Barack Obama's performance as president. Those will be the first state... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9823a1f9-6281-45ce-966d-16df63740452.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The 'Rock' In Health Reform The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health-care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill that gives him 85 percent of what he wants rather... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cc255723-ceea-4e75-90c6-94933b5ca5ab.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Biggest Battle While headlines talk about a "fight" over the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is about to break out over President Obama's No. 1 domestic priority, health care. Sotomayor is a c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/de3ca473-533a-4637-8bd1-9f483c34b6a9.html Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT After Bork -- And Obama When a Supreme Court nominee such as Judge Sonia Sotomayor comes before the Senate for confirmation, she is promised a full, fair hearing. In fact, every nominee's path is booby-trapped by the history of previous confirmation battles. After Justice S... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7f0729b3-3951-479f-a6ae-a3dcb832babe.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Burris Challenge When he was elected president, Barack Obama inherited Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader; the choice was not in his hands. When the Illinois Democrat was elevated to the White House, Reid inherited Roland Burris as the Senate successor to Obama... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bdf168df-2e85-4af3-a335-8203e5059155.html Sun, 31 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Choice For The GOP It is as close to certain as anything gets in Washington that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is on her way to the Supreme Court. What impact she will have there is far harder to predict. President Obama's choice to succeed retiring Justice David Souter has ev... http://www.caglepost.com/article/83fa4f7b-2190-4073-9fdb-82615b3c4c31.html Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Worthy Debate That was a rare and splendid moment when the president of the United States and the former vice president offered their sharply contrasting views on maintaining national security in back-to-back televised addresses last week. Had the speeches Barack ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/14a62d32-4879-46aa-91d0-042cc33e3ff2.html Sun, 24 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama In Command No new president finds that every aspect of the job suits him at once; some duties are inevitably more comfortable than others. What we have witnessed in the past few weeks is Barack Obama trying on and fitting himself to the role of commander in chi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/feb92050-97ac-412c-8aa8-4f11fa1e9172.html Thu, 21 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Molehill Out Of A Budget Mountain The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the "line by line" review long promised by President Obama -- and found theoretical savings almost invisible to the naked ey... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b91a8ed5-5942-4edb-8dfa-222f35a11ca2.html Sun, 10 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Life Of His Party On the very day last week that Jack Kemp, the former quarterback, congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate, succumbed to cancer, other Republicans were honoring the example of his life by launching a search for new ideas and broader constitue... http://www.caglepost.com/article/327606f2-2108-4f22-a292-55231097edd3.html Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Right Signals When Hubert H. Humphrey died in 1978, he left a namesake, Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, in Minnesota politics, and a protege, Walter F. Mondale, in presidential politics. But the man who most resembles Humphrey in spirit, style and scope i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d1108ba0-2d32-4b1e-a2d1-a6beca1661d0.html Wed, 06 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Detroit Opens Up The Hood When I was in high school, my parents gave me 15 shares of General Motors stock, worth maybe $600, and a lecture on investing in America. This is a great company, they said, and now you own part of it. Hold on to it, and your investment will grow. Th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/18b4733b-ec5c-4cb7-a5b7-484aed0743b8.html Sun, 03 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Specter The Defector It's been more than four decades since Arlen Specter, senator from Pennsylvania, earned the nickname "Specter the Defector." With his decision this week to leave the Republican Party, he confirmed that it is indeed an accurate description of his poli... http://www.caglepost.com/article/09aae7d5-b1dc-4128-a6a3-3eaed45e7a37.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Stop Scapegoating If ever there were a time for President Obama to trust his instincts and stick to his guns, that time is now, when he is being pressured to change his mind about closing the books on the "torture" policies of the past. Obama, to his credit, has ended... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c348aba3-3584-4ad8-a70e-ac4bfbb2ad97.html Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Bravura Opening As we approach the 100-day mark for the Obama administration, you will hear and see a wide variety of grades for the new president's performance. Remember this: What has happened so far is no more than the overture to the first act of this opera. The... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f89e980b-b838-4af6-9f70-7507ca68e685.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Why The Center Still Holds It looks like perfect political symmetry -- party-line voting in Congress on the first key pieces of Barack Obama's agenda, matching a deep partisan divide within the electorate in judging his performance as president. But, for reasons that require a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6145ab37-593e-4c81-b266-77dbd734749f.html Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Yannigans of Summer This is a blessed time of year for those of us who are sports fans. The week that began with the finals of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments will climax with the Masters golf competition at Augusta, the floral highlight of the season ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a1c08b02-7706-4bd0-9a69-4d84808ee37f.html Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Bipartisan Bill Worth Celebrating When Congress comes back from its two-week recess, members of both parties will be invited to the White House to celebrate what is, in today's context, almost a miracle: the signing of the Serve America Act of 2009. Congress adjourned on Friday for t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/69a6f953-d5d8-49f5-991c-ebbdc7a4daff.html Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Muscle Moment Last week's edition of the Economist, the shrewd British journal, had a lead editorial expressing serious misgivings about Barack Obama. "His performance has been weaker than those who endorsed his candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped," it ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ad07f497-3fdc-4cb3-ba34-4a6f1b13e0e2.html Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Hiding A Mountain Of Debt With a bit of bookkeeping legerdemain borrowed from the Bush administration, the Democratic Congress is about to perform a cover-up on the most serious threat to America's economic future. That threat is not the severe recession, tough as that is for... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0cd8af0e-0b03-46a2-a5f7-587660f17fa1.html Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Mr. Cool's March Madness I took a one-week vacation from this column, and the stock market went crazy. The letters AIG were translated into SOS, and the House of Representatives, responding to an outburst of anger across the country, voted for a retroactive 90 percent tax on... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f68004f6-5dc3-4a7b-9b7b-cffbe1a57af5.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT End of the Honeymoon Two months into his presidency, it is far too soon to make any judgments about Barack Obama's prospects. All we really know is that he has assembled the rudiments of an administration and launched a batch of ambitious but unproven initiatives. But it... http://www.caglepost.com/article/71cd0b91-f641-45a2-aee3-6b6c0c482d32.html Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Country's Loss The Obama administration has just suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the lobbyists the president vowed to keep in their place, and their friends on Capitol Hill. The country has lost an able public servant in an area where President Obam... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1179384a-3fe3-4706-93d4-0fa98583ddb5.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Education's Chance Of A Lifetime Arne Duncan has an opportunity to do more for a generation of youngsters than any education secretary in history, and my strong sense is that he is going to make the most of it. The 44-year-old former Chicago public schools superintendent, a basketba... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1e411114-10a9-4822-a871-3dcce5b745d0.html Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Running On Empty As if the problems in the U.S. and world economies were not enough of a challenge in themselves, the young Obama administration is also being called on to figure out simultaneously how to govern in such an emergency. A big part of the second challeng... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2e4e0278-5e4c-4f53-8292-b5af0bb7219b.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Illinois' Mr. Clean In his first few weeks in office, President Obama has caught very few good breaks. But last week he had one. When he entertained the nation's governors at his first formal state dinner, he did not have to figure out what to do about Rod Blagojevich. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/027db2df-79a9-4b41-acc3-ebc5190c87ee.html Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama Rolls The Dice The size of the gambles that President Obama is taking every day is simply staggering. What came through in his speech to a joint session of Congress and a national television audience Tuesday night was a dramatic reminder of the unbelievable stakes ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b8a5e3c2-60aa-49e8-9990-ceb2715d3d6a.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT New Eyes On Bigger Prizes Gwen Ifill, a familiar face to audiences of PBS's "Washington Week" and "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," has just published her first book, "The Break-Through: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." I may be biased, because Gwen is a good friend and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a44fd14b-fba2-4d65-bfbc-9ef7dba03794.html Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Betting On Bipartisanship As far as most of Washington is concerned, Barack Obama's big talk about bipartisanship is kaput. One month into his presidency, many pundits and political analysts have told him to drop it. Get real, they say. It bought you next to nothing on the st... http://www.caglepost.com/article/64485ff8-da79-4646-b841-6bed981a6a94.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Just The Start Now comes the hard part. Difficult as it has been to push the almost $800 billion stimulus plan to the point of passage in Congress, making it work in local communities across America will be much more challenging. And here in Washington, the politi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e7adfe7d-d901-4ea1-b578-9531a169c72f.html Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Biden In The House When Joe and Jill Biden moved to Washington on Jan. 20 as he took up his duties as vice president, they brought their bed down from the family home in Wilmington, Del. But unlike their predecessors, the Gores and the Cheneys, who already lived in the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4d965dd8-4c3c-4cd9-9f00-f66bb38d24ad.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The GOP Faces The Blue Wall It was not all that long ago that political reporters were writing about "the Republican lock" on the White House. From 1972 to 1988, from Richard Nixon's reelection through George H.W. Bush's victory over Michael Dukakis, 24 states supported the GOP... http://www.caglepost.com/article/adad0c14-f75a-48bf-b8ad-27e43589d680.html Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Cabinet Loss And Gain In a striking repetition of the up-and-down pattern of the Democratic primaries a year ago, President Obama filled one Cabinet vacancy on Tuesday but saw another one embarrassingly come open. I had just begun a column congratulating him on recruitin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c77c0a84-4ac0-4989-ac36-4a4d79f0c9f4.html Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Votes Obama Truly Needs When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in early January that there would be no mid-February recess for Congress unless the giant economic stimulus bill demanded by Barack Obama were on its way to the White House, she accomplished two things. On t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d88dfa42-9502-4b24-b8b8-3310a9a210b2.html Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT It's No Joke To Illinois Something very strange -- and disturbing -- has happened with Rod Blagojevich. Even as the legal wheels are turning in Springfield that will remove him from the Illinois governorship, he has become a media star, warmly and affectionately treated by p... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ecd3ab78-a34a-4c7b-8a4e-bf06f66a1566.html Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Dynasties In Decline The dynasties are disappearing. The latest proof came when Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of John and Jackie Kennedy, dramatically removed herself as a possible replacement for Hillary Rodham Clinton -- a dynast by marriage -- in the Senate sea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/08cdf8cf-dd01-48a6-a9a2-af8e88f18851.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Born To Build Bridges When Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address that a new era has begun and that "the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply," it sounded like empty rhetoric. Politicians always tend to inflate the historical... http://www.caglepost.com/article/34fc85fd-c4ab-48b1-9732-71d6e7225ac4.html Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Call That Bush Didn't Make In his valedictory interview with the White House press corps and in his farewell address to the nation, President Bush struck a more reflective tone than during most of his two terms in office. He acknowledged some mistakes and "disappointments," in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e19029e0-3769-4626-96fc-379688b4e6fb.html Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Diplomacy That Heals When George W. Bush was running for the presidency, he said he aspired to be an education president. He followed through in his first year by pressing Congress to pass the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act. He found an effective partner in Margaret... http://www.caglepost.com/article/93f5f5a6-1a04-4ba1-9619-d1b60cc31902.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT An Early Drubbing For Obama It was not lost on anyone that the president-elect of the United States, riding the crest of his popularity, and the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate were outsmarted last week by a state politician who won his last election almost 20 years ag... http://www.caglepost.com/article/90677c40-fa6b-441e-b1d1-a05524f5f7e2.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Tales From Longworth On the opening day of Congress, the elevator deposited me on the fifth floor of the Longworth House Office Building, where, as I expected, the parties celebrating hard-fought November election victories had spilled out of the offices and filled the c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a54ad2f0-5ad7-4739-b8c4-1bedf6781093.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Illinois Outdoes Itself Opportunism comes in many forms in Illinois politics. Unfortunately for the reputation of my home state, the nation is learning about all of them. Thanks to the court-approved wiretaps released last month, we heard evidence that Gov. Rod Blagojevich ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8c3ae51a-ac62-426d-9330-cf87b6d7c5dd.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Missing A Few Sages When the new Congress begins this week, a great many familiar faces will be missing. While the most notable absentees will be the new president- and vice president-elect, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, something tells me that we will see plenty of them ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7fc6885b-cd61-4456-8c1b-2e6a8f7b556f.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Gop Goes South As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 2001, George W. Bush decided to name as transportation secretary Norman Mineta, a former representativ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/52f97fe6-b757-47bc-8855-c31b75ce075b.html Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Health Reform's Moment On the same morning that President-elect Barack Obama introduced Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader, as his prospective secretary of health and human services and his point man on health-care reform, a panel of key constituency group lead... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a63e8c57-dc90-423d-afed-80a58cd98c7b.html Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Long Path To A Fall In lllinois Rod Blagojevich was a scandal waiting to happen. When he was running for governor of Illinois for the first time in 2002, he had two impressive opponents in the Democratic primary. One was Paul Vallas, a reform-minded intellectual who had been Mayor ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ca686dc5-d4a1-4137-b5db-dfaa8d502754.html Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Rescuing A College Education Of all the promises Barack Obama made during his campaign, none received more cheers and applause than his vow to make college more affordable and accessible for America's young people. This was obviously appealing to youths, many of whom find themse... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c9b029f9-d3da-412e-bd5f-e607be47dc3b.html Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Danger Of Holdovers In the two most crucial areas facing his presidency, national security and economic policy, Barack Obama has opted for continuity, not change. That is reassuring to many in the short term, but it entails long-term risks. By keeping Robert Gates as de... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c169240a-4390-4163-b6f8-ab0c5e0faf55.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Addressing The States' Dire Straits When Barack Obama meets Tuesday in Philadelphia with governors of both parties, an additional dimension of the credit crisis and financial meltdown will come into focus. We have heard a lot about the collapse of housing prices, the threatened or actu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6f66d265-70d4-47ae-993b-e74b368fd7d1.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Good Time For A Brainy President When I started covering the White House more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong. Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan were certainly not intellectuals, but they understood the power of t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b7538e0c-9703-4398-9edb-6e852d42de30.html Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Rising Hope For Fixing Health Care Things are looking up for substantive reform of America's troubled health-care system. No one who knows the history of such efforts, from Harry Truman's administration through Bill Clinton's, needs to be reminded of the difficulties that inevitably ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5409cc6f-bffe-4c40-b051-f1b2338d7226.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Trending Away From The GOP The deeper one digs into the returns from this past election, the more portentous the results seem. I know the dangers of deciding too soon that any one election is a turning point. I recall vividly how devastated Republicans were after Lyndon Johns... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e85887a5-2c3d-4f7e-a4e9-974dfb69585c.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT A Force For Good -- But Not At State It may be moot and it certainly is presumptuous, but I would be less than honest with readers if I did not say what I believe: Making Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state in Barack Obama's administration would be a mistake. I do not doubt th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d7135dc3-e0cc-44f3-bd34-de297e18c994.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Good Start The first week of Barack Obama's transition to the presidency has gone about as well as anyone could imagine. His few public appearances have been gaffe-free, and his initial decisions in setting up his administration have been strongly reassuring. O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f038b52c-ef7e-4b4b-85cb-1249921e57fc.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Task Ahead The celebration of Barack Obama's victory was genuine and heartfelt, as it should have been. No one who has lived in this country and knows its history can be insensitive to the significance of his election. Symbolically and substantively, it sends a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a3285a84-2a36-4cfa-b154-2cfa8c510312.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Governors Know Best After the celebrations of the success of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the congressional Democrats, it is time to tip the hat to some other people -- with names such as John Hoeven, Jon Huntsman, Jim Douglas and Mitch Daniels. They are Republicans reel... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1cad6a69-01d2-486c-846d-caf1fd563b97.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT An Admirable Campaign Journey When Barack Obama began his candidacy for the White House 20 months ago, most Americans knew next to nothing about the young senator from Illinois, barely two years into his first term in federal office. After his performance in 2004, some Democratic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c669e047-b91e-4df2-a931-2fd044094584.html Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT What We've Learned About McCain As we near the end of another presidential campaign, it is useful to ask ourselves what we have learned about the candidates that we did not know before. When you reflect back on all the rallies, the speeches, the ads and the debates, what insights h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c0add55f-36dd-4343-911a-69cc9b6cceb2.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT A New England Brawl HENNIKER, N.H. -- New Hampshire may be the only state where you can turn on the television and see a commercial in which the Democratic candidate for the Senate lavishes praise on President Bush. Jeanne Shaheen, the former governor now running for th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6ba6630e-9a51-44b5-a002-b1ad911fae68.html Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Blue Sparks In Red Ohio WOOSTER, Ohio -- This is the Republican heartland, a small city filled with churches and circled by cornfields an hour south of Cleveland. In 2000 and 2004, George Bush carried Wooster and surrounding Wayne County with more than 61 percent of the vot... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f56c0eac-cc21-4903-8719-3760f1cfa258.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Assurance Policy John McCain's answer to the first question in Wednesday night's debate was an acknowledgment that "Americans are hurting right now, and they're angry." He said it twice, so there could be no missing the message. Barack Obama quickly agreed. "Everybod... http://www.caglepost.com/article/acd8805e-c36f-4dea-84f2-64355b31e815.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Closing A Deal In Pa. UPPER DUBLIN, Pa. -- In April, on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, voters in this Philadelphia suburb were finding plenty of fault with both Barack Obama and John McCain. Many were preparing to -- and soon did -- vote for Hillary Clinton, helping... http://www.caglepost.com/article/62632a56-8bc9-41db-a4bb-2d5bf4aa7074.html Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT What Honeymoon? The good news for Barack Obama is that the calamities in the financial world may have created an insuperable barrier to John McCain's White House ambitions. The bad news is that Obama stands to inherit the leadership of a country in far worse conditi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f7d8ddcd-0e10-401a-93c5-ab8ddfd14dbb.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Running From Reality Something strange is happening in this strangest of all presidential contests. The longer it goes on, the less we know about what either of these men would do if he were in the Oval Office next year. John McCain and Barack Obama have been asked twice... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6907d41d-f9f1-432a-a864-2813f2521d7f.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Uplifting Debate ST. LOUIS -- The McCain campaign, perhaps fearful of the reviews that Sarah Palin would receive for her part in Thursday night's debate here, deployed a trio of almost-vice-presidential candidates to convince reporters that she had passed her big tes... http://www.caglepost.com/article/509ff3c8-a39d-4fdf-b443-ee758e79bb4c.html Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Economics Exam In Michigan WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- When I visited this battleground area in the suburbs of Detroit early this week, it was to check the public reaction to the first debate of 2008. The Michigan polls I had seen just before John McCain and Barack Obama met ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7f125e1b-9536-43c2-92ac-a9845a93711f.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain As The Alpha Male There were no knockout blows in the first presidential debate of the fall, but John McCain outpointed Barack Obama often enough to encourage his followers that he can somehow overcome the odds and deny the Democrats the victory that has seemed to be ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/09417b9b-6eb0-430b-a388-cf8e2a95c0b5.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Credibility Test For Congress In the greatest crisis to confront the American economic system in three-quarters of a century, it is notable that the leaders of the two elected branches of the federal government have not been calling the signals. George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi and H... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9cac9a94-920f-4342-8275-c4b3a5a579aa.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Debate's High Stakes Friday evening in Oxford, Miss., Barack Obama and John McCain will meet in the first presidential debate of 2008, and this dramatic campaign will in all likelihood reach another turning point. The matchup could have come much earlier, but Obama turne... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3468c8f4-eb9b-4e3d-8129-4cf2cd8644df.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Down Days For McCain When it's September and important issues cry out for attention but we seem consumed by trivia -- watch out. In September 2001, cable news and even some "serious" newspapers were preoccupied with Gary Condit, a married California congressman who had a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8159bd9c-19b6-4c74-afae-74a4073eda95.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Next President's Due Bill Every so often, reality has to intrude on politics. 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Foreign leaders, who can read the polls as well as anyone, would go out of their way not to emba... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5a442ca-1555-48da-95d2-427609c39d55.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Deputy Dilemma For McCain On Wednesday morning, The Post published a poll of registered voters giving Barack Obama an eight-point lead -- largely because the voters said they trusted him more than John McCain on handling their No. 1 issue, the economy, by an astounding 19 per... http://www.caglepost.com/article/74c3dc08-2b15-4272-9111-a6a18c809140.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Listening To The Governors PHILADELPHIA -- When the luck of the draw made him the chairman of the National Governors Association in this, the centennial year of its first meeting -- with President Theodore Roosevelt -- Minnesota Gov. 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The threat outlined by the L... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0c779728-f1da-442f-9c8f-edb27133c3bc.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Dumbing Down The Presidency People campaign for the presidency by talking their heads off. By the time the winner reaches the White House, the habit is so ingrained that it is impossible to shake. The result has been what professor Jeffrey Tulis of the University of Texas 21 ye... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b1c9b22d-8083-45ff-abf2-9d339f511f9e.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Voting's Neglected Scandal When Barack Obama decided last week to throw off the constraints on campaign spending that go with the acceptance of public financing, he was rightly criticized for rigging the system in his favor. That was a predictable response. 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