117 Articles

Friday, October 30, 2009
Hillary Would Have Made a Terrific Obama VP----Bill Notwithstanding
(3 comments) In his spicy, tantalizing, tell-all inside the belly of the Obama campaign book, Obama campaign manager, David Plouffe says that Obama toyed with picking Hillary Clinton as his VP running mate and then junked it because hubby Bill posed too many complications.

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Obama's White House is for Sale Just like All the Others
(5 comments) The difference between what Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan and every occupant of the White House did and what the Obama White House does in showering perks on fat cat donors is that the other presidents knew enough to keep quiet about it. Obama didn't. He denounced the practice. It practically became his campaign mantra.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Public Option is dead as a Doornail
(14 comments) President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and a parade of House and Senate Democrats should get academy awards for their play act on the public heath care option. It's as dead as a doornail. Yet, the principal players still tease the public with their talk about it. The public option epitaph was written months ago

Monday, October 19, 2009
Hillary is Still the Best President That Wasn't
(2 comments) The same day a fourth grade student asked President Obama why do people hate him a Gallup survey found that far more people like Hillary Clinton than Obama. The question and the poll implicitly asked and answered the youngster's troubling question. Obama is plainly not liked by a lot of people.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Insurers Royally Played Obama
(7 comments) In the months after President Obama's inauguration, he and other administration officials held more than two dozen secret meetings with top insurers and the major pharmaceutical groups. He met with registered lobbyist Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, the major private insurer's industry group, on March 5, 6 and 11, May 11 and June 30.

Friday, October 9, 2009
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Is a Huge Stretch
(2 comments) Publicly President Obama said all the right things when he got word that the Nobel committee awarded him its jewel in the crown peace prize. But privately I have to think that Obama had to scratch his head and wonder why me?

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Obama Can't Talk About Race Even If He Wants To
The bitter truth is that President Obama can't about race even if he wants to. This has absolutely nothing to do with his mixed racial upbringing, or his straddle of many worlds. It has everything to do with politics.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
President Obama Bad Mouthed Kanye West, Now How About Badmouthing the Hatemongers that Vilify Him
(3 comments) I'm puzzled. President Obama had absolutely no reservation about name calling hip hip mega star Kanye West a “jackass.” Make no mistake West's boorish, juvenile delinquent, antic at the MTV award show richly deserved a public reprimand. That is his act and his act alone. But West apologized quickly, vociferously and often for his grandstanding.

Sunday, September 13, 2009
Poverty is Still a Dirty Word in America
(2 comments) The figure on real poverty in America is far worse than the Census Bureau recently reported. It found that nearly 40 million Americans are living in official poverty ( less than $22,000 for a family of four). This is an 11 year high.

Friday, September 11, 2009
Censure“You lie” Wilson! Democrats should give him a Merit Plaque
Forget censuring Congressman Joe “You lied” Wilson. The Democrats should give him a merit plaque. His two blasphemous words was a dream for the Democrats. Rivers of cash instantly flowed into the Democratic National Committee coffers. It quickly made his almost sure to be beaten re-election campaign Democratic opponent Rob Miller, a serious competitor.

Saturday, September 5, 2009
Obama Can't Thumb His Nose at the GOP, and Here's Why
(9 comments) The loud clamor from progressives, some liberal Democrats, and even a few self-described moderates for President Obama to get down and dirty with the GOP on health care and other big ticket legislative issues will always fall on deaf White House ears.

Sunday, August 30, 2009
Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam
(4 comments) In August 2007 Senator Barack Obama fresh on the presidential campaign trail made an impassioned promise at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to wage what he dubbed the war that has to be won.

Saturday, August 22, 2009
President Obama's One Term Nightmare
(5 comments) In an interview on NBC's Today Show two weeks after he was sworn in President Obama was blunt. He said that if he didn't deliver he'd be "a one term proposition." Put this in the category of what did he know and when did he know it. The it is that he was under the intense glare of the public to deliver the goods, or be quickly dumped in the presidential has been bin. Polls back up this hard political reality about Obama.

Friday, August 21, 2009
President Obama's One Term Nightmare
(2 comments) In an interview on NBC's Today Show two weeks after he was sworn in President Obama was blunt. He said that if he didn't deliver he'd be "a one term proposition." Put this in the category of what did he know and when did he know it. The it is that he was under the white hot glare of the public to deliver the goods, or be quickly dumped in the presidential has been bin. Polls back up this hard political reality about Obama.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
President Obama will Likely Dump the Public Option, and Here's Why
(6 comments) Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius found out the hard way that when you say what your boss may really be thinking or worse end up doing on a crucial piece of legislation you get quickly smacked down.Sibelius in an unscripted and unvetted moment said that President Obama's public option in the health care reform war could go by the wayside if that's what it takes to get Senate obstructionists to back a bill.

Saturday, August 15, 2009
Why the Right Is Winning Its War against Obama
(8 comments) The right is winning the war against President Obama, and winning it handily.

Monday, July 27, 2009
Obama's Gates Trainwreck
(4 comments) The stock basketball one liner came to mind when I heard President Obama utter his now infamous "acting stupid" line referring to the cuffing of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
No Apology Needed President Obama for Speaking Out on Gates
(4 comments) President Obama may have used the wrong words when he called the actions of the Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crawley in cuffing Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates as "acting stupid." He backed off slightly from it in a follow up interview when he made it clear that he wasn't indicting the entire Cambridge police department.

Monday, July 13, 2009
The GOP's Canny Hit Plan on Sotomayor
(2 comments) It doesn't much matter whether Alabama GOP Senator Jeff Sessions speaks for himself or Rush Limbaugh when he goes for the jugular during his hectoring of Sonia Sotomayor during her Senate confirmation hearing. The shadow of Rush Limbaugh and the ultra-conservative hit attackers will hang heavy over the Senate Judiciary hearing room.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester
(4 comments) The never ending myth of Jackson the child molester. It still hangs as a damning indictment that feeds the gossip mills and gives an arsenal of ammunition to Jackson detractors. This is not a small point. In the coming weeks, there will be a push to bestow official commemorative monuments, honors on and a national stamp for Jackson. The taint of scandal could doom these efforts to permanently memorialize Jackson.

Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Terrible Plight of Dr. Conrad Murray
(1 comments) Dr. Conrad Murray can't win. The Michael Jackson family through their surrogate Reverend Jesse Jackson hints that the doctor may have done something terribly wrong in the death of Jackson. Jackson fans were brutal. On the website vitals.com that rates physicians there were more than 100 comments (as of Saturday).

Friday, June 26, 2009
Remembering the Other Michael Jackson
(2 comments) Near the end of the first week of Michael Jackson's infamous child molestation trial in 2005, a large group of African-American community activists and leaders gathered at a community center in Los Angeles to talk about Jackson, the trial and whether he was a target because he was a rich, successful, and famous African-American.

Sunday, June 21, 2009
A Little Talk with the Man who prayed For Obama's Death
(4 comments) Even by the nut case standard of the assorted pack of neo-Nazi unreconstructed Klan members, Aryan Nation haters, and the legion of loose screw religious cranks and loonies, the Reverend Wiley S. Drake's public prayer for the death of President Obama stretched far past the outer limit of credulity.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Obama's Marriage Defense Shouldn't Surprise or Anger Anyone
(5 comments) "I will tell you that I don't believe in gay marriage." "I believe in civil unions but it should not be called marriage." Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that during a campaign stop in Nelsonville, Ohio a day before the Super II Tuesday primary in March 2008. The great puzzle then is why so many are so hot at President Obama for backing the Defense of Marriage Act.

Friday, June 12, 2009
The Good Reverend Jeremiah Wright and "Them Jews"
(12 comments) There were two things wrong with the good Reverend Jeremiah Wrights's grouse that "them Jews are keeping me from Obama." Oops, I mean not Jews. That was Wright's nimble effort to take some heat off him for the silly crack. One was that he said it. The other is that he meant it.

Friday, June 5, 2009
President Obama Confronts Holocaust Evil, Now What about the Slavery Evil
(11 comments) President Obama spoke forcefully, passionately and correctly at the Buchenwald death camp on the evil of the Holocaust. He implored nations to confront those who would deny its horror. Obama should do the same about the evil of slavery.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
The Terrible Price of Being Tagged a Reverse Racist
(1 comments) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich backpedaled from his reverse racist slur of Supreme Court designate Sonia Sotomayor as a racist. A defiant Rush Limbaugh didn't. There's a reason.

Monday, June 1, 2009
Obama Might Need to Show ID in More Places than East Harlem
(1 comments) The only thing wrong with New York Congressman Charles Rangel's quip that President Obama had better bring his ID to East Harlem is that he limited it to East Harlem. A President Obama in his trademark baseball cap, sometimes hip clothes, and sneakers, sans White House entourage and limo, strolling or driving down a dimly lit night time street in any number of poor black neighborhoods could easily be stopped.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Picketing President Obama Is the Wrong Way to Get Blacks to Back Gay Marriage
(1 comments) The Gay activists that picketed President Obama at a recent fundraising event in Los Angeles for allegedly not doing and saying enough to beat back Proposition 8 must have dropped in from another planet.

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Painful Truth in Cheney's Spat with Obama
(2 comments) The painful truth in former Vice President Dick Cheney's spat with President Obama is that there are still far too many places where Obama's policy resembles Bush policy on the terrorism war.

Friday, May 15, 2009
The Other Farrah Story
(2 comments) Farrah Fawcett watched her personal, moving and life affirming story on ABC-TV. Millions applauded her for her valiant fight against cancer and her inspirational message to fight on to many others who wage their own private medical battle against the dread disease. Lawanda Jackson was not one of them who applauded Fawcett.

Monday, May 11, 2009
Hatin' on Miss California is not about a Contract
(4 comments) The issue for the umpteenth time is and never has been about whether Carrie Prejean violated the dumb, probably legally challengeable, and possibly legally winnable Miss California contract she signed.

Sunday, May 10, 2009
Put Donald T. Sterling's NAACP Award on Hold
Now we come to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling; or rather Donald T. Sterling and the NAACP's cornerstone issues of economic and housing discrimination, racial slurs and defamation, and poverty. The much maligned Sterling has been sued, verbally lambasted, reprimanded, hit with reams of bad press, and threatened with pickets for these racial wrongs. Yet, the Los Angeles NAACP Chapter will give Sterling its award

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Miss California is Right to Scream About Beauty Contest Hypocrisy
(3 comments) Miss California nee Carrie Prejean is right to scream foul at the scalp hunters who want hers after the pictures of her clad in revealing pink drawers with her back turned to the camera in a suggestive pose ripped around websites. Miss USA Beauty pageant organizers wasted no time in very publicly saber rattling Prejean with the threat of snatching her Miss California crown away for violating the "ethical and moral" standards

Sunday, May 3, 2009
Michael Steele the Magically Disappearing Negro
(1 comments) Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele must have been struck by terminal amnesia. He yukked at and agreed with the swipe a radio caller took at President Obama. The caller called him "the magic negro." That's the goofy, tired, worn, ditty that tags Obama as a black man with the supposedly impregnable Teflon shield that renders him immune to any and all criticism, adversity, or just plain bad political luck.

Monday, April 27, 2009
100 Day Silliness
(2 comments) Then Democratic Presidential contender Barack Obama did a prescient thing last October. He told an interviewer on a Colorado radio station that he thought the first 1000 days not the first 100 days would make the crucial difference for his presidency.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Navy Seal Sharpshooters Can't End the Somali Crisis
(5 comments) The only reason that Somalia is in the news these days is the spectacular desperation and criminality of the Somali pirates, an American sea captain held hostage by them, and Hollywood image sharp shooting by American Navy Seal commandoes to free him. This news will quickly fade but the reasons the Somali pirates exist and make news in the first place won't fade.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
An Arizona State University Honorary Degree for Erma Bombeck but Not President Obama
(2 comments) Erma Bombeck, Hugh Downs, Howard Pyle, Jerry Colangelo, Art Buchwald, and Steve Allen to name a few from the check list of entertainers, sports owners, gossip columnists, and satirists that Arizona State University claims had lofty enough credentials to merit an honorary degree.

Friday, April 10, 2009
An Honorary Degree for Kermit The Frog But Not President Obama
(3 comments) It's not clear whether Arizona State University President Michael Crow had any say in the decision not to grant President Obama, the school's commencement speaker, an honorary degree. But one thing's for sure the dumbest thing that school officials said in telling why they won't grant an honorary degree to President Obama was not that he didn't have a credible body of work.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Playa Hatin' on Madonna
(9 comments) Let's cut the bull. The issue is not Mercy James. That's the four year old Malawian orphan girl who Madonna wants to adopt. The issue is Madonna. Whether their motive is revulsion, disgust, secret wish fulfillment, sexism, or just plain, garden variety envy, legions just flat out loathe Madonna. Or in the street vernacular, there's a thriving growth industry in playa hatin' on Madonna.

Monday, March 30, 2009
Madonna Deserves Cheers Not Jeers for Casting Light on Africa's Orphan Misery
(4 comments) First an outfit called Save the Children UK butted in and denounced Madonna for adopting Malawi orphan David Banda in 2006. Now another bunch has jumped into the adoption fray and branded her a"bully" for her plans to adopt another Malawi orphan.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Wave the White Flag in the Limbaugh War
(1 comments) President Obama and the Democrats should wave the white flag in their strawman war on Rush Limbaugh. The Media Research Center delivered the grim casualty figures for the Democrats. Since January, the top talk show gabber's ratings have soared off the charts.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Oakland Police Massacre: A Desperate Act to Avoid Going Back to Prison
(8 comments) The killing of four police officers in Oakland shows the desperation of an ex-felon. Lovelle Mixon was trying to avoid going back to jail and at the same time unable to find any employment that would give him a second chance. It's a story repeated all over America, even if it does not always end in a killing spree as it did in Oakland.

Monday, March 23, 2009
Oakland Police Massacre Casts Ugly Glare on Ex-Felon Desperation
(6 comments) A general consensus is that it was a deadly mix of panic, rage, and frustration that caused Lovelle Mixon to snap. His shocking murderous rampage left 4 Oakland police officers dead and a city and police agencies in deep soul search abut what went so terribly wrong.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Red Flags Flew From the Start on Geithner and Company
Florida Republican House Rep Connie Mack was the first in the door to demand that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner resign or get the boot. Mack bluntly said what more than a few Democrats and a lot of Republicans have grumbled privately in recent days. President Obama says that Geithner will stay. But things in Beltway politics change, and change fast.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
AIG's Minority Racket
AIG ignited the national firestorm of rage with its shell out of $160 to $600 million in tainted bonuses to its tainted executives. But what has gotten almost no attention is a big reason that AIG had to stiff the government and everyone else.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Mason is an Honorary Schwartza
(1 comments) The Yiddish/German term schwartza or schwarze is not in itself a racially demeaning and insulting term. It just simply translates to black or as used colloquially a "black person." But it's a totally different thing when the word drips out of the mouth of shop worm comic Jackie Mason.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Norris's Nutty War on President Obama
(56 comments) Chuck Norris claims that thousands of right wing cell groups exist and will rebel against the U.S. government. It's tempting to laugh away his vow to wage war against President Obama as either the crackpot ravings of a washed up Z grade martial arts actor. Or as a cheap promotional stunt to get his mug back in front of the cameras.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Madoff's Guilty Plea Scam
(5 comments) Despised financial fraud Bernie Madoff may have one last scam in him. And this one may be the biggest and most infuriating of all. He may sleaze his way out of rotting away his last days in prison.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Race Still Drives the War against Universal Health Care
President Obama has heard all the arguments against universal health care. One he won't hear from opponents, that is the private insurers and hospitals, is that of their fear of having to cover and treat the millions of black and Hispanic uninsured.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Red Baiting President Obama
Nothing that House and Senate Republicans and would be ex-officio Republican kingpin Rush Limbaugh have said or done to torpedo President Obama's program has worked. So why not try one more thing, red baiting

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Limbaugh Strawman
(1 comments) First President Barack Obama stroked talk show kingpin Rush Limbaugh's ego by proclaiming him the pied piper of the GOP. Next Republican National Chair Michael Steele showed some moxie and publicly told Limbaugh that he was the shot caller in the GOP. That didn't last.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Mr. Murdoch Is Obama Really a Chimp?
(8 comments) York Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan would hotly defend the racist Post cartoon comparing President Obama to a chimp. That's what your shock and smut dealing Post is in the business of doing and it does it well.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Obama Should Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
(2 comments) Nothing sends conservative talk jocks and corporate broadcasters fleeing to the barricades faster than even the slightest hint, rumor and whisper that President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats might push for reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.

Friday, February 13, 2009
Obama The One Term President?
(3 comments) President Barack Obama had barely finished uttering the oath of office when the talk started that he would be a one term president.

Monday, February 9, 2009
Limbaugh's White Man Litmus Test for the GOP
The great mystery is still why President Barack Obama would whiplash obstructionist GOP congresspersons with Rush Limbaugh. A guy who a big majority of Americans don't like and who rates lower than any other political figure.

Friday, February 6, 2009
Octuplet Mom Reinforced Single Mother Stigma
In her NBC interview Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman was irked at getting pounded for being a single mother with fourteen kids. Or in her words, "it's not as controversial because they're couples so its more acceptable." She had good reason to be irked, but she should be irked at herself too for doing much to reinforce that stigma.

Friday, January 30, 2009
The GOP Finally Got Something right With Michael Steele Pick
(4 comments) Two weeks ago this writer wrote that an African-American was the last and best hope for the GOP. That meant picking an African-American to head the Republican National Committee. And I said that that African-American had to be former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Message to Obama: Drop Limbaugh from your Rolodex
(5 comments) President Barack Obama needs to take a deep breath, and then a long look in the mirror, and repeat to himself that Rush Limbaugh can't hurt me, and anything that I try to do with Congress. Limbaugh has fast become a fringe, self-marginalized non entity.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Obama "might not have been served at a local Restaurant"
(1 comments) " ....a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath." President Barack Obama's line in his inaugural speech was short, pointed and it passed too fast.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream
(1 comments) The unchallenged article of faith is that the election of President Barack Obama fulfills Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that the content of character should trump skin color. King uttered the words in his March on Washington speech in 1963. We'll hear that said time and again in the march up to the King national holiday January 19 and Obama's inauguration the next day.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Towering Obstacles Prosecuting the Oscar Grant Killing
(8 comments) There's a good chance that former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle will be charged in the videotaped New Years day killing of Oscar Grant, a young African-American.

Monday, January 5, 2009
The Genius of Ann Coulter
(4 comments) Ann Coulter is a genius. All she has to do is shake that stringy blonde hair, prance around in tight mini skirts, show her rail thin, pale white legs, spew foul mouthed expletives about her favorite whipping boy, liberals and the so-called liberal media and the tongues roar furiously.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Burris Flap Tosses Glare on Virtual Lily White Senate
Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush took much heat for saying this, "don't hang and lynch" him. The "him" is Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's hotly disputed Illinois senate appointee Roland Burris. Rush deliberately spoke in racially charged terms.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Blagojevich's Race Card Appointment Was Inevitable
There was never any doubt that race would be a huge factor in filling Obama's vacant Illinois senate seat. Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich proved that when he dumped veteran Democratic Party war horse Roland Burris into the seat.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Shirtless Obama Pic More than Media Goofiness
(4 comments) The mix of disgust, laughter and goofy gossip at the body ogling photo of Obama on the beach at Hawaii seemed more than justified. The most charitable that could be said was that it was a deathly slow news week and the shot was manna from heaven to stir up a little interest and hopefully controversy.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
What Did Obama Know, And When Did He Know it?
(6 comments) The soon to be release of a report on the contacts that President-elect Barack Obama or any of his staff members may have had with scandal-plagued Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will likely quiet the rumors and gossip about Obama and the governor.

Friday, December 19, 2008
Did Sharpton Seal the deal for Caroline Kennedy?
The instant that Caroline Kennedy faintly hinted that she was interested in Hillary Clinton's possibly soon vacant senate seat she got pounded. Kennedy was take your pick, just an inexperienced part time education consultant, an Obama shoulder rubber,

Friday, December 19, 2008
Did Sharpton Seal the deal for Caroline Kennedy?
(1 comments) The instant that Caroline Kennedy faintly hinted that she was interested in Hillary Clinton's possibly soon vacant senate seat she got pounded. Kennedy was take your pick, just an inexperienced part time education consultant, an Obama shoulder rubber,

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Obama's Rick Warren Pick Makes Perfectly Good Sense
(1 comments) President elect Barack Obama almost certainly knew that he'd take some heavy flack from gay rights and abortion rights groups for picking mega preacher Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The What is Obama Debate Again
(13 comments) Here's the what is President-elect Barack Obama, black, bi-racial or multi-racial quiz. If he did not have one of the world's most recognizable names and faces he would fume at being subjected to poor (or no) service in restaurants,

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Jesse Jackson Jr. Should Bow Out for Obama's Seat
(1 comments) Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. should bow out of contention for Obama's Senate seat. True there is yet no evidence that he offered to grease Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's palm in return for the seat.

Monday, December 8, 2008
More Nuttiness on the Obama Birth Certificate Non-Issue
(4 comments) The Supreme Court has finally put to rest the nutty Obama birth certificate non-issue. Or has it?

Friday, December 5, 2008
Method to Thomas Madness on Obama Birth Certificate
(51 comments) The harebrained lawsuit demanding disclosure whether President elect Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen or not was laughed out of New Jersey courts in October. A few weeks later Supreme Court Justice David Souter gave it just as short shrift.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
More Than a Sentence for O.J. Simpson
(3 comments) The instant O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbery, kidnapping and weapons charges in a Las Vegas court, a lusty on line debate ensued between legal experts and bloggers over whether the judge would or should throw the book at Simpson at his sentencing on December 5.

Sunday, November 30, 2008
Behind the Screwy Obama Birth Certificate Controversy
(9 comments) At first glance it defied credulity that the staid, respected Chicago Tribune would do something as screwball as giving any credence to the issue of whether President-elect Barack Obama is really a U.S. citizen or not.

Monday, November 24, 2008
Red Flags Fly High on Obama's Economic Team
(1 comments) Top Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summer is the consummate Wall Street, and yes another Clinton insider. His resume reads like a mini telephone book on the list of posts he's held in and out of every financial and government monetary agency imaginable.

Thursday, November 20, 2008
Pritzker Saved Obama Much Embarrasssment By Bowing Out Of Commerce
Billionaire Obama campaign finance chair Penny Pritzker did the smart, maybe the only, thing she could when she quickly scotched talk that she wanted to be Obama's Commerce Department Secretary.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Holder Could Be GOP Target
Before nominating Eric Holder to be his attorney general, President Elect Barack Obama quietly asked key Senate Republicans if there would be any potential confirmation problems with Holder's nomination. Holder is his first cabinet pick and Obama wants to make sure that the pick will be hailed as a good one.

Monday, November 17, 2008
Obama Should Take a Hard Look at Bush's Terrorism Executive Orders
(2 comments) President-elect Barack Obama's promise to rethink, reexamine and maybe even scrap some of Bush' executive orders was greeted with much joy by environmentalists, abortion rights advocates, and labor union officials.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
Obama Assassination Jitters
(4 comments) Long before Secret Service officials reported that President elect Barack Obama has gotten more threats against him than any other president-elect,

Thursday, November 13, 2008
Obama's Racial Balancing Act
(2 comments) President elect Barack Obama's close and long time confidant Valerie Jarrett was emphatic when she told a group of black journalists that Obama would not waver one bit in his commitment to diversity in his administration. The journalists were nervous at the paucity of African-American names that have been repeatedly tossed around as likely Obama staff and cabinet picks.

Friday, November 7, 2008
Clinton's Blueprint is Now Obama's
(3 comments) In September, 2004, then Democratic presidential contender John Kerry desperately searched for a message and a way to re jumpstart a lagging campaign. He did the politically smart thing. He called on Bill Clinton for advice.

Monday, November 3, 2008
Not Black President Obama, Just President Obama
(2 comments) The instant that Barack Obama tossed his hat in the presidential rink nearly two years ago the twin mantra was that he could be the first black to be president and if that happened America had finally kicked its race syndrome.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Why Race Won't Hurt Obama on November 4th
Republican presidential contender John McCain got one thing right about Democratic rival Barack Obama. He told Larry King that he didn't think race would be much of an issue in the final vote. As McCain put it only "a tiny, tiny, minority" will vote against Obama because he's black.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Five Things President Obama Can do to Keep the Fox Guys Off Him
(3 comments) The then freshly elected President Clinton had barely dropped his arm after taking the oath of office in January 1993 before they started in on him. The "they" was Rush Limbaugh (Remember his "Day one of America held hostage" daily rant), packs of radio shock jocks, legions of Christian broadcasters, and, of course, the Fox Network.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Why Obama Can't Shake McCain
(6 comments) At first glance it seems absolutely incredible that Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama can't shake Republican rival John McCain. Yet an AP poll calls the race a statistical dead heat. That's only one poll, of course, and the mish mash of other polls show Obama with either a respectable lead or a near rout of McCain.

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Why McCain Did Not Go For Obama's Racial Jugular
A handful of top advisors in the McCain camp were perplexed at their boss's flat refusal to again slam Democratic rival Barack Obama on his ties to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Instead they picked the race neutral target of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, and tried to tie Obama to him. That ploy had no public or media legs.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Fear of a President Obama
It was a tense and riveting moment at the recent McCain campaign rally in Minnesota when a flustered and livid participant shouted at Republican presidential contender John McCain that he was scared of an Obama presidency.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
McCain and Obama's Wall Street Greed Team
(2 comments) September 15 was a rare day for Democratic Presidential contender Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain. They both lambasted the greedy and corrupt (their words) Wall Street wheeler dealers for wreaking financial mayhem and pain on Main Street.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Did Palin Really Say She Wouldn't Hire Blacks?
(1 comments) Sarah Palin admittedly hasn't had much of a track record when it comes to acknowledging let alone promoting diversity during her short tenure as Alaska governor.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Barack, Say it's Nonsense that You Tried to Stall Troop Withdrawal
(4 comments) The New York Post is no friend of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Any knock of Obama by its editorial writers and op-ed columnists should be taken with the whole bag of salt.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Beating up on Palin Is a Lose Lose for Obama
(3 comments) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama should do two things about GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. The first is repeat: "I'm running against John McCain and I'm running for president not Vice President."

Monday, September 1, 2008
Palin's Job: Fire Up and Keep Firing Up Pro-Lifers
Republican presidential contender John McCain is if anything a good listener. The instant he heard the loud squeals from Republican pro-life hawks that his campaign would be DOA

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Clinton's Not a Racist, but There's a Reason Many Blacks Think He Is
Former President Bill Clinton was probably shocked at the storm of rage that he drew back in January with his apparent Jesse Jackson slough off of presumptive Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's win in the South Carolina Democratic primary.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Forget Apologizing to Obama Jackson Should Apologize to Blacks for His N Word Hypocrisy
(1 comments) On November 26, 2006 at a press conference in Los Angeles guess who said this: "We will challenge and urge all artists and comics to stop using this (n) word. What other group is subjected to such a degrading terminology?"

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
New Yorker Depicted Obama Horribly Wrong, but Got It Horribly Right about the Slanders
(4 comments) New Yorker Magazine's under fire cover illustrator Barry Blitt says his infuriating cover was intended only to show that the incessant rumor that Obama is a closet terrorist is preposterous and ridiculous fear mongering.

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Obama Never, Ever Said No to Bush on Iraq
(7 comments) His very public record of his very public pledge to end the war NOW in stump speeches the year before he said that had changed, and his words and voting record on the war had changed too. This has caused much grief, anguish and disappointment among fervent Obama backers.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Out Bushing Bush Didn't Work for Gore or Kerry, Out McCaining McCain Won't Work For Obama Either
Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama thinks he's found the right script to beat Republican rival John McCain. It's simple. Steal a big page from the GOP script.

Saturday, June 28, 2008
Nader Talks Black
(18 comments) One presidential candidate has brashly played the race card. It wasn't presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain or his rival Barack Obama. Both have tipped lightly around race in the campaign. But Ralph Nader didn't have any qualms about bring race into the campaign.

Monday, June 23, 2008
Jewish Voters Cause Obama Jitters
Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama wasted no time when he heard that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tooted his horn before a Jewish group in Boca Raton, Florida.

Monday, June 16, 2008
The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed Race
(4 comments) Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama gave the best answer to the question whether he's black, mixed race or something in between. He recently told a Chicago fundraiser crowd that to some he wasn't black enough,

Saturday, June 7, 2008
How McCain Can Win the White House
(3 comments) In a talk with reporters in Louisiana, Republican presidential contender John McCain implored disgruntled Hillary Democrats to back him. His pitch was I'm the toughest, most knowledgeable and most experienced on national security. The unmistakable inference is that rival Obama is too green, fresh, and untested to gamble with on national security.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Obama's Latino Dilemma
(1 comments) A day before the Puerto Rican primary election, I talked with several Mexican workers and business professionals during a visit to Mexico City. The subject was American presidential politics and the upcoming election. They had only the haziest notion that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was the frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination.

Friday, May 30, 2008
White Women Punishing Obama, Not Oprah
What started as a trickle of puzzled queries on Oprah's message board when she touted Obama in October eventually turned into angry complaints from many white women when she barnstormed for him in January.

Friday, May 23, 2008
Stop the Silly Talk about an Obama-Hillary Dream Ticket
In March close-to-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was blunt when asked if he would be Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate, "I'm not running for vice president." Clinton would likely give the same blunt answer to the silly talk that he should pick her as his running mate.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The Inexperience Knock may be a Bigger Hazard than Race to Obama
(5 comments) The obsessive talk still is that race might wreck close-to-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's slog to the White House. Race is a hazard to Obama. But the even greater hazard is the knock that Obama simply is to green, too untested, and too soft to be a firm, and resolute commander in chief.

Sunday, May 18, 2008
Romney Poses Bigger Threat to Obama than McCain
(1 comments) The burning question is who close-to-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama will pick as his running mate. The question is better asked of his GOP foe John McCain. His vice presidential pick is far more crucial than who Obama picks.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever
(1 comments) Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has moved heaven and earth to keep race out of his campaign. He had no choice. He knew that if he gave even the faintest hint of a tilt toward black voters his campaign would be DOA.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
McCain Didn't Need to Rap Obama to Relax Evangelicals
(1 comments) Republican presidential candidate John McCain feigned fury at Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama for voting against the confirmation of Supreme Court justice John Roberts. This was not simply a cheap political shot at Obama, since Hillary Clinton, and 20 other Democrats also opposed Robert's confirmation.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Superdelegates Must Tell Color of Change What it can do with its Silly Vote for Obama Petition
(4 comments) Color of Change which presumptuously bills itself as the premier national grassroots organization is the latest to jump into bully the super delegates for Obama game. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNC Chair Howard Dean tried their hand at it and failed.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Obama, Not Wright, Is Obama's Worst Enemy
(9 comments) Whoever on Team Obama keeps feeding into Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's seeming compulsive need to speak out on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright should get the swift boot. When Wright went on his latest public and media tear, Obama should have simply issued a statement saying this: Wright is no longer my pastor. And as I have said repeatedly, his views do not reflect mine, and then move on.

Friday, April 25, 2008
Cop Acquittal in the Sean Bell Killing Was Inevitable
Even before the first witness was called in the Sean Bell trial, a defense attorney for one of the three officers charged with gunning down Bell flatly said that he thought his client and the other two officers would be acquitted in the killing of Bell. This was not typical attorney bluster. The defense attorney was right.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Vote Demographics Spells Much Bigger Trouble for Obama than Pennsylvania Loss
There's one more troubling note for Obama. The majority of voters overall and that includes a significant percentage of Clinton's backers think that Obama will eventually get the Democratic nomination they aren't exactly doing handstands at that prospect.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Pennsylvania Outcome Won't Sway Superdelegates But Money Will
A month before the crucial Pennsylvania primary an aide to a superdelegate bluntly told a reporter that top Democrats don't want the people to think the Democratic presidential nomination was stolen. The aide referred to the whispers, grumbles, and even loud shouts from both the Obama and Clinton camps about the superdelegates and their possible votes after Pennsylvania.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Sexism is the X Factor for Hillary that McCain and Obama Don't Have to Worry About
Chelsea Clinton is incredibly na�ve, incredibly sheltered, incredibly in denial, or maybe a bit of all three. In late March, Hillary Clinton's daughter told a Young Democrats audience in North Carolina that she was shocked at the nasty things some male (and even female) folk on the campaign trail are saying about her mother such as "Iron my shirts," and "the nutcracker in your......."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Ten Troubling Questions I Asked Obama to Answer before McCain Asks Them
(16 comments) Here are ten troubling questions for Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama that he'd be wise to answer coming from me. If he's the Democratic presidential nominee you can bank that John McCain and the GOP truth squad will ask him them. The questions were sent directly to him at his national campaign headquarters Friday, March 28.