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James Pindell
In this amazing 18 month presidential campaign a few moments stick out. Barack Obama's first campaign appearance. Rudy Giuliani's phone call ... >
Reid Wilson
Searching for a cure for what has so far proved a fatal disease, several top Republican consultants argued their party's candidates must run as ... >
Rob Tornoe
The New York Times is reporting that former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who spent 30 years in Congress, >
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Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
The wholesale absorption of Hillary Clinton’s best and brightest campaign advisers has begun. In the weeks since Mrs. Clinton officially suspended her candidacy, the Obama campaign has recruited the services of the Clinton campaign’s director of national security, Lee Feinstein, as well as foreign-policy advisers Mara Rudman, the deputy national security advisor under Bill Clinton; Robert Einhorn, a former assistant secretary for nonproliferation at the State Department; and Stuart Eizenstat, an international-trade specialist who was policy director for Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign.
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Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
It may ultimately be a good thing for Barack Obama that Wesley Clark stepped into such a mess when he discussed John McCain’s military service this week. The background of the Clark flap is by now familiar: On CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, the retired general said that “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” a comment that has been portrayed by the right – and by much of the media – as an effort to disparage McCain’s service.
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Joe Conason - New York Observer
Despite all the feigned outrage fanned by the mainstream media and the right-wing noisemakers, Wesley Clark -- retired four-star general, former Supreme Commander of NATO, wounded and highly decorated veteran of ground combat in Vietnam, and a military man to his core -- assuredly did not denigrate the war record of John McCain when he talked about the Republican candidate on television last Sunday.
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