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James Pindell

When Russert said it was over

In this amazing 18 month presidential campaign a few moments stick out. Barack Obama's first campaign appearance. Rudy Giuliani's phone call from his wife. Hillary Clinton's tears. During the dramatic five month Democratic presidential contest there were moments that were supposed to ... >

It's not what they want, it's what they need

Even before Hillary Clinton officially suspended her presidential campaign last weekend there was a lot of speculation as to what Barack Obama should do with her. Democrats and pundits examined what she wants or what she deserves or what she should do. Should he offer her the vice presidency? ... >

Clinton campaign struggles to hold on amid reports of her dropping out

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is struggling to survive in the presidential race today after two separate reports suggest that rival Barack Obama has clinched the nomination by getting enough delegates and another report that she will acknowledge that tonight in a speech an drop out. >

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Reid Wilson

A diagnosis of the House Republicans' 2008 ailments

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 independent brands and shed the party label that has become so traumatized. >

Guns lose firepower as political weapon

A decade and a half after the 1994 elections in which the National Rifle Association played such a big role, guns are not likely to be a significant vote-mover, given that both parties have shown a reluctance to take bold steps on the issue. >

The case for, and against, Clinton

After 17 months, 18 million votes and 1,600 pledged delegates, the only question remaining for U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton now is whether she will spend the fall campaigning as part of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's Democratic presidential ticket or on behalf of it. >

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Rob Tornoe

Helms versus old cartoonist foe

Jesse Helms - 1921-2008: Left: Getty Images Photo; Right: Caricature by Doug Marlette.Jesse Helms - 1921-2008: Left: Getty Images Photo; Right: Caricature by Doug Marlette.The New York Times is reporting that former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who spent 30 years in Congress, died at 1:15 a.m. on July ... >

Tornoe's Toons: Mission Accomplished

So much for our promise to liberate Iraq, not to occupy it, and not to cart off its riches. >

Tornoe's Toons: Addington feigns outrage over Delahunt’s comment

Was Massachusetts Representative Bill Delahunt trying to suggest that he'd like to see Cheney Chief of Staff David Addington attacked by al Qaeda, or is the right feigning outrage to cover up the truth? >

  • Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
    Team Obama goes cherry-picking

    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.

  • Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
    The end of Wes Clark's V.P. campaign

    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.

  • Joe Conason - New York Observer
    Wes Clark is right

    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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