Donna Brazile from CaglePost.com Columns by Donna Brazile from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Donna+Brazile Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Iran Matters I know most people have tuned out to the growing discord in Iran. Turned it off because they have become distracted by other stories like the sordid confessions of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, or the raging partisan debates over the feasibility ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/59ada224-7655-43df-85a6-d150b7a57d00.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Green Velvet Revolution In the days leading up to the recent elections in Iran, I was glued to the television and the Internet as tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets calling for change and reform. These youthful Iranians had nothing but their bodies and spirit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d55bb08e-aadc-4fa5-9096-89ce539b53b3.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT What Is The GOP These Days? What is the GOP these days? If someone says, "I am with the GOP," what does that mean exactly? According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, most Americans cannot name one person who speaks for the Republican Party. Asked to identify "the main person ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/885bdef1-df5b-46cd-bc0c-7c4727b9064b.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Time For Cooler Heads To Decide Newt Gingrich has retreated from calling Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a racist because she dared to declare that being a "wise Latina woman" helps make her a good judge. "My... http://www.caglepost.com/article/67b1a290-932f-4923-b98c-047c70dee8e8.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Sotomayor's Critics Need Not Prevai President Barack Obama made a wise and appealing choice in nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. So what is all this fuss about her qualifications and her legal temperament, and why are some pundits attacking her credentials? Could i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/75518ace-a66e-4716-8173-3abdaa3fae43.html Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Logic: We Don't Think It Means What They Think It Means If you have read or listened to the partisan spin coming out of Washington, D.C., lately, it's all about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and what she knew about the "enhanced interrogation techniques." When she knew it and what she did about it. Or did no... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6387607e-91ee-4ec9-9a6f-fbf82cfa6e98.html Thu, 21 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT No Time To Hide Former Vice President Dick Cheney invites public debate on the use of torture, or "extreme duress" as he euphemistically calls it, to secure intelligence from suspected or actual foes. Even his daughter, Liz Cheney, got into the act, ripping a page ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1b5f7a6b-c00d-456e-b051-1fd7b6f4144e.html Thu, 14 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Quarterback And The Lineman Former Republican vice-presidential candidate, congressman, pro-football player, Cabinet secretary, businessman and humanitarian Jack Kemp is being remembered as a champion for supply-side economics, social equality and a happy warrior. He should als... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d0bdcf3f-b984-4b1b-849e-50ed067a295b.html Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's 'Now,' The GOP's 'No' President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office in much of the same manner and energy that we have become accustomed to seeing -- the fierce urgency of now: An early-morning news conference with longtime GOP senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvani... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5961c125-254a-4087-bdba-171fc18621ec.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Follows Through On Promises With President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office finally over, it's time to grade his performance. It's a time-honored tradition to measure the pulse of the nation and to get a sense of how people view their new president: his public performan... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1c6b7524-54f0-43da-8f4c-eae8234cc236.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT GOP Governors; We Openly Reject Your Money, Now Give It To Us Those who live in a governor's mansion should not throw stones. Better, they should not ask their constituents to eat cake while they cross the country delivering speeches to their favorite political groups, attempting to tie down political endorseme... http://www.caglepost.com/article/56b07758-8acb-4acd-89ae-fa2baa073676.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Can't Save A Global Economy Chained To A Chair I wish all of us, myself included, would stop quarterbacking President Barack Obama and let him lead. He's the president. We elected him to do the job. We elected him to do this job. One of the most striking characteristics of George W. Bush's tenur... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9e788daa-c788-466f-bd2d-bb5b2ad51ee0.html Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Auto Industry/Wall Street Comparison Stalls In The Details It's a relatively straight-forward concept: The American people put leaders into office to find solutions to the daunting challenges facing our country. Perhaps it bears repeating from time to time that last year the majority of Americans voted for c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/26d00f90-c26e-4627-b86e-6b03546f36e6.html Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The phenomenal Lady O Politically speaking, it's March madness inside the beltway. Republicans are battling the new president over his budget priorities and centrist Democrats are trying to redefine themselves as fiscal hawks while the nation's economic engine remains sta... http://www.caglepost.com/article/919af88d-fbbe-4a29-b3da-aaceebc1e572.html Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's first 50 days: What a ride President Barack Obama is now halfway through the first 100 days of his presidency, and what a brief but interesting honeymoon it has been. One of the most impressive things about Obama's first 50 days is how hard he's working. And the most glaring ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b9156ef9-fef4-4c55-be00-5d62efbd2ee3.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Thanks For The Show, Rush. We Brought Popcorn Rush Limbaugh, the prominent conservative radio-talk-show host and national entertainer, has challenged President Barack Obama to a debate. Not so fast. Before the president takes time out of his busy schedule to debate Limbaugh or any other critic m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dcf4545c-2b94-43fe-bfc2-71ff0dd5f6e4.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Jindal Failed To Say, What Obama Must Hear: Help Us Obviously focused on the politics of 2012 and not his constituents still reeling from the effects of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obama's address before a joint sessio... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b8c63860-c83b-44be-ac45-a4b737b41804.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Hard Times Call For Uncommon Changes February is Black History Month. Throughout this shortest of months, I have traveled to small towns and large college campuses celebrating the recent history made last November. Whether speaking before an audience in my hometown of New Orleans or an ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f4ef152f-443e-4aec-a05b-1263254a9831.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT True Bipartisanship, Not Grand Old Puling, Saves An Economy Along with the Democratic majority and a few brave Republicans, President Barack Obama has worked hard and in good faith to get this economy back on its feet. Which is why it astounds me that as the economy continues to slide with thousands losing th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/05255f28-084a-4c44-97d5-620654282c88.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Michael Needs Steely Resolve To Save Old-News GOP Which one of these things is not like the others? a) closure of Guantanamo Bay b) repeal of the Global Gag Rule c) admission of personal mistakes from a U.S. president d) health insurance for the poorest of America's children e) election of an Afric... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7efa6342-1076-49b4-a208-99806052ee28.html Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Do Republicans Want Obama To Fail? Within minutes of the U.S. House of Representatives voting along largely partisan lines (244-188) for the passage of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," I received this e-mail from a prominent Republican operative: "I am curious why the pre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8bffcb9b-f4d6-4048-8ae1-db7cdba6d3f4.html Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Gone Is Failure, Ahead Is Hope According to a recent Gallup poll, George W. Bush departed Washington, D.C., with the lowest job-approval rating in polling history: 27 percent. Bush walked off the stage with more than 70 percent of Americans disappointed in his performance. Bush ea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f9f75497-a987-4886-8e6c-50a468a082be.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Why Obama Must Succeed All it takes is a visit to Africa to truly understand what a powerful, historic and uplifting teary-eyed 60-second moment this Tuesday will be not just for the people of the United States but for billions of our neighbors around the world. Come Tues... http://www.caglepost.com/article/00011123-19eb-4b19-8ea8-04e1aa05d828.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Last Laugh Disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich may be in hot water over allegations that he tried to sell to the highest bidder the Senate seat vacated by the next president of the United States, but he sure knows how to get the last laugh. Just ask Senate ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6f633eaa-ebf3-4e6e-9bcf-e978a7d4360b.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Hope Is On The Way If life were a Broadway play instead of the reality show we often make it, 2008 will soon be enjoying its final curtain call. The reviews are about to start pouring in, and there are early signs of hope as well as hardship on the horizon. An amazing ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f1b521aa-a793-498b-b048-a825df434599.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Have Patience With The Rebirth Of America I was at the post office the other day, rushing to get my last-minute gifts and packages off to family and relatives before I left town. As I waited in a long line, a woman approached me from behind to ask my opinion on the president-elect. "Did you... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c82d5184-5556-4a30-a6c6-617fc130fbfa.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Lame Duck Ducking It seems fitting that President George W. Bush would be ducking a few shoes on his last trip to Iraq. Though repeatedly calling himself "The Decider," ducking is precisely what the president has done on so many issues. I guess that's why they refer t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0dcb141d-8c8a-46ed-8d9b-32bc19cec9f8.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Shouldn't Get Caught Up In The Web Of Illinois Corruption Even as a self-confessed avid follower of such celebrity trials as O.J. Simpson, Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears, I cannot remember a criminal affidavit that literally made my jaw drop in shock and horror. In all of my four battle-scarred decades of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c2f3738a-222c-4e67-8186-cb592f8c2437.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Will Those Who Derailed Our Economy Help Get It Back On Track? If the Wall Street executives who ignored ethical lending standards had a theme song, I imagine it would be "For the Love of Money" by The O'Jays: "For the love of money, people will lie, Lord, they will cheat. For the love of money, people don't car... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8fd14233-765b-4628-9950-e9fb4614c83f.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Hungry For Change And Simply Hungry On Tuesday, Nov. 4, we were all witnesses to the momentous election of Barack Obama, whose simple campaign theme of change fed hope to millions of Americans hungry for new leadership and a reason to become engaged in the governance of their nation. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/81d100e2-26f8-4a2e-acdb-fd3408441354.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT What Is Post-Partisanship? Every now and then I find it necessary to, if I may be allowed to use a noun as a verb, Google new terms and concepts that arise in the political nomenclature. I want to be sure of their true meaning and not their implied definition. Two such terms n... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d1a97ea4-7106-4064-8c38-46167c538378.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Looking Past Palin "The past is the past," Gov. Sarah Palin declared at her first and only official press conference of the 2008 presidential campaign season, which, oddly enough, was held after the election. "It's behind us." Is it? Palin is in front of the media mor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/df5bd304-e77f-4f8e-89cc-7c5e6bbaf5b9.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT No Time To Even Measure The Oval Office Drapes The 2008 political season is now officially over. It will be analyzed for years to come on its meaning in American history. President-elect Barack Obama will become our nation's first biracial president of African descent. This is a moment of jubilat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/307bca3a-9046-4843-9c64-0f6d8c597873.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Barack Obama For President When Sen. Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign two years -- and seemingly two lifetimes -- ago, pollsters asked whether America was ready to elect a black president. Given our country's relatively recent history of dismantling racial barri... http://www.caglepost.com/article/440145b9-3317-4989-ad52-fc201e6967a4.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet As someone who has spent my entire life on one campaign trail or another, I never count my chickens until the last egg has been hatched and is scratching around the farm yard. While Barack Obama's momentum in the polls is encouraging, as a former pre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8cb243e6-187e-45b2-962d-d5eed38b7b16.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain's Fumbles Cost Him The Game Now that the 2008 presidential debate series is finally over, allow me to get something off my chest. A confession, if you will. I felt a little bad for John McCain going into the last and final debate. There was no way for him to win. In the first ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e3a80b0a-8610-4b66-9800-88b59a049e13.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain, Palin Slinging Mud From The Gutter You know what time it is when the gloves start swinging at rallies, the mud starts flying around the Internet, interesting photos start appearing in your mailbox (just wait), and the fact-checking staffs with the daily papers decide to take an early ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4062a6e5-bb79-40f0-89a4-19a16720dbd0.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Blaming Homeowners For This Crisis? Please When Wall Street catches a cold, Main Street gets pneumonia. When banks stop lending to each other and private equity firms hold tight to their cash, households and small-business owners cannot borrow money. This is not a left-right crisis, and it do... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a681afbd-9601-4671-a92c-64c2b4aad933.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Excuse Me, What Is Our Hard-Earned $700 Billion Getting Main Street? President George W. Bush finally addressed the nation about the crisis facing Wall Street, and it looks like he's learning to speak the language on Main Street. Well, he's trying and I give him some credit for not sugar-coating the problem or outsou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/613790c6-b1a5-42cc-8240-7c0a81482afb.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT When Does Main Street America Get Bailed Out? I watched President George Bush address the nation's fear that the financial tsunami that flattened Wall Street last week will drown us all. Seeking explanation, assurance and comfort, I listened intently that Thursday afternoon to what should have b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d760ad38-488e-4327-a84a-89491e620dac.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Take The Initiative, Team Obama, Not The Bait I do not envy Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean or Sen. Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe. Nor do I care to replace them. Been there, done that, and I have the scars to prove it. Responsible for helping win the presidential electi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e57831fe-36d0-47b6-84e6-882f465faaa1.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Palin's No Shrinking Violet Anyone worried about the enthusiasm gap of the Republican Party or the energy level of conservatives wary of John McCain's commitment to fighting for their causes (abortion, gay rights, guns) ought to just move on. With the selection of Sarah Palin,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c6d9c634-44ce-46fb-b789-9506a3f70f08.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Party of Unity For One America Democrats arrived in Denver, Colo., somewhat divided and worried about how the week would unfold. But after four days of rousing speeches, and some backroom deals that allowed primary wounds to heal, Democrats are now prepared to build a joyful choru... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5db1ad87-892b-435e-af73-c900aed05872.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Election Based On Merit, Not On Identity If one were easily swayed by the mainstream media, tabloid press and talking heads, one would think the 2008 Democratic presidential primary boiled down to who had the greater claim to the greater disadvantage: Sen. Barack Obama and his blackness or ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/40067a9d-f993-42c3-a067-1fab8ff9c1d2.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Surviving The Economic 'Perfect Storm' As Barack Obama and John McCain prepare to make their big announcements, common sense tells me I should be focusing on the veepstakes right now. Yet, while I can't wait to hear about their exciting choices, I find myself more focused on whether my lo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b351bf0-bdd5-4fa9-aded-c82831d9ae9b.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Lies Have Legs, Obama. Don't Let Them Go Unchallenged The modern Republican Party, as reconstructed in the images of both George W. Bush and his political architect, Karl Rove, has not been good at governing. But when it comes to waging negative political warfare, it is the best. The Bush-Rove Republic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/456d205e-42f6-4677-a0a5-32874ef74d2e.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT No Joy In McCainville The recent desperate, harsh, frustrated tone of John McCain's presidential campaign combined with the inaccurate, misleading attack ads demonstrate that the general election will become increasingly bitter. Americans deserve better than this. Sen. Ba... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6046f45b-d5da-423f-bc31-1b9234cfe8f4.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain Should Stop Acting Like A Jilted Lover Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, unable to get traction with its relentless attacks on Sen. Barack Obama, is now sliding into the mud with its charge that Obama is responsible for high fuel prices at the pump. Is the McCain campaign running ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2ab7018e-b8ac-4503-a16f-5884c62f6207.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Note To Hil's Holdouts: It's Time To Unify As One Democratic Party The race for the Democratic nomination has been over for a month, but some passionate Clinton supporters, who speak out or send irate emails to me and many other super delegates, are still anxious to fight. Many of them seem unable to accept that it'... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5651917-e648-4d8f-add0-6a301c4b7fd7.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Let Obama, The Next Generation, Move Us Forward What exactly was the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson thinking when he sat in front of a TV camera and a microphone -- at, of all places, a Fox News affiliate! -- and whispered as an off-air aside that he wanted to castrate Sen. Barack Obama for "talking down" ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f766b4c3-3f49-4aa1-a6e3-d03dc5fb852d.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bless This Great Beacon of Freedom Every day should be celebrated like the Fourth of July, complete with fireworks, flags, marching bands, a heralding of troops past and present, and a gathering of family and friends with all the hot dogs, hamburgers, chips and potato salad you can ea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/572768cf-c7b7-4685-8b86-8eab57c49836.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT So, How Are Hil And Barack Doing? Sen. John McCain cannot be happy with the prospect that Sen. Hillary Clinton returned to her day job with her suitcase packed, ready to hit the road campaigning for her former Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. Clinton and Obama have agreed to j... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2c1654bc-d31a-4c2c-a912-76fd387c625a.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Be Not Afraid Would someone please remind Mrs. John McCain that a few weeks ago her husband promised to elevate this presidential race by never engaging in the politics of personal destruction? As soon as Cindy McCain arrived in Vietnam, she launched a guerilla at... http://www.caglepost.com/article/33ea4522-dc0a-492d-ab27-76894a05d036.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT FEMA's Response Still In Critical Condition "Federal surplus?" That is how some bureaucrat from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) described $85 million in critical household supplies never delivered to folks struggling in the aftermath of two deadly natural disasters, hurricanes K... http://www.caglepost.com/article/34b8bb59-a199-42e1-b7e2-b17af2311075.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Another Reason To Hope Who among us has not been told by our parents that they can become anything and anyone they want to be, even president of the United States? Yet, in my household, my siblings and I would always go behind our parent's back and giggle at such a silly t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c7cb586b-134d-429f-867b-f182881c4c33.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Unite The Party And Move Ahead Toward The Presidency At this point in the great presidential sweepstakes, the political math may have rendered the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting moot in terms of how the nomination will play out. Even using Hillary Clinton's math, whi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5c5fe88c-3190-4faa-bbe1-2160ffc14531.html Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Democrats Must Lay Down Their Arms The end of the Democratic primary season is within sight. With three primaries remaining in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota, the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will be decided by which candidate has won the majority of del... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ca298d78-6f49-470e-8eb6-f31179593d6e.html Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mississippi Roasts GOP Dirty Tricks Machine Earlier this month, voters in my old backyard of Baton Rouge, La., fired the second warning shot aimed at Republicans desperate enough to use the politics of fear to win congressional races. Like the first one fired two months ago from former House S... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2b2d6747-9ddd-4bd2-bf62-68783238d6dc.html Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Horse Race Or An Honest Dialogue On Race Relations In America? No one should be surprised that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial media blitz reignited a racial firestorm. At a time when sound bites and YouTube define political reality, Wright's emergence from the shadows he cast on Sen. Barack Obama's can... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b665c14e-e9a7-4784-85a1-094f819041b3.html Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Are Americans Bitter? Well, Duh Political pundits work hard, often at a moment's call. I know this because I'm one of them. Throughout this unconventional political season, we have been called upon to interpret everything from the candidates' religious views to denouncing the sermo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/07ab76ab-3531-4262-854b-caa24c4f90c5.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT When Do We Just Win? Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker gave their spin on the war over two days of testimony on Capitol Hill. When their answers weren't falsely optimistic -- such as assuming an inexplicable decrease in expenditures even though proj... http://www.caglepost.com/article/319d7c11-8f9f-47d8-85e7-93a5b7a9a15b.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Congressional Inaction Fueling Subprime Inferno Imagine an enormous wildfire blazing through the country, incinerating house after house. Firefighters are exhausted. Reporters are out in droves, calling the play-by-play. Politicians don their blue jeans and lament the crisis for the cameras. Prope... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8cf1786a-a3e8-4368-9a22-e144f70ba579.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Hillary, Stop Elbowing Barack Honestly, did anyone ever believe we would hear someone being called that during a modern-day presidential campaign? Really? Come on, James, isn't that a little bit extreme? James Carville is my friend and he's as tenacious as anyone you will find i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bd0c3709-1b26-4268-b6aa-ed70cfdbf670.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Race Talk Could Cost Obama, Americans, More Than Just The Presidency Sen. Barack Obama accomplished as much as he could to disavow and denounce the inflammatory remarks of his fiery former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Although most editorial editors and TV commentators initially praised the speech for helping to ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bc15de84-24c2-4b0c-9697-ec7f715d0497.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT This Is Democrats' Year, If They Don't Mess It Up After nearly a decade of disaster under the Bush administration, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done to make our nation great again. So why are some Democrats fighting over who should be first: a black or a woman? Well, here's a novel ide... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dd8ebfa7-52c8-47cf-96fe-9ea49669ccb1.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Shop Wisely, Or Lose To The GOP Republicans voters, who seemed at times to be hunting for the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, chose self-styled maverick and rugged idealist Sen. John McCain. Once considered politically unviable, McCain is now the new leader of the Grand Old Party,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bfad05d3-88d2-4ef3-a585-c049f10e3c2e.html Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Don't Even Think About A 'Do-Over' Unless Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama bows out of the nominating race, some political strategists believe it's mathematically impossible for either to secure the Democratic nomination without having to rely on the independent-minded superdelegates. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8e590ee0-3bfe-4dd2-a4b9-a1df83efbd6e.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Will Scandal Stain Reinvented McCain? Those who want to live in the White House should first look for the peeling paint of scandal in their own homes before launching attacks on others. A media bombshell reports that Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party presumptive nominee and much-tou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4bec1f0a-2ee5-491d-a2e4-555ee36f0800.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Voters Are Super Important, Too Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean is worried. In fact, my good friend is quite nervous. The party, he recently announced, cannot "afford to have a big fight at the convention. ... I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/63d3724b-763e-4f19-a517-a5d1a83b90a8.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The State Of Things To Come Like Rudy Giuliani, who placed a risky bet that grateful New York retirees would ensure the former mayor's win in the Florida Republican primary, Sen. John Edwards had to admit to his own losing hand after being soundly defeated in his home state of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aafc17eb-4346-4e56-94fe-ce8c64775c85.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Dems' Stupidity To Give The GOP The 2008 White House So much for the self-imposed Hil/Obama truce to avoid any more "politics of personal destruction." For one solid week (a long time in presidential politics), Sens. Clinton and Obama went back to staking out their positions on the economy and helping ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/59d7dac7-c809-478d-824f-baa446e9edfb.html Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Race Is a Bridge, Not a Divide By now, most people have heard that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have reached a truce on race, a topic that threatened to harm the Democratic Party's chances of winning the White House. 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