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Clinton on Easley Street

One week before the North Carolina primary, Gov. Mike Easley comes out for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY. Easley said that Clinton "makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy," per ABC News' Eloise Harper, in a comment that assuredly will cause...

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April 29, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (64)

RNC Tries to Stop DNC Ad Against McCain

The debate over Sen. John McCain's comments about US troops being in Iraq for up to "100 years" continues to heat up, with the Democratic National Committee launching a new TV ad using McCain's words against him, and the Republican...

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April 29, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (36)

Blue Collar Obama

He rolled out some new autobiographical lines in a stumpe speech today, trying to shed the "elitist" cape that has been thrown on him. Watch our World News report HERE. - jpt

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April 28, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (117)

Wright Assails Media, Cheney, Obama at National Press Club

"This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright," said Rev. Jeremiah Wright this morning at the National Press Club, explaining why he was emerging before a national audience, regardless of what harm it might do to the candidacy of one...

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April 28, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (340)

McCain Tries to Have It Both Ways on Rev. Wright

Yesterday in Florida, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised and twisted remarks Rev. Jeremiah Wright made in 2003 while insisting he would continue to avoid making political hay out of Wright. Quite an interesting maneuver. Asked what steps, if any, he...

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April 28, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (75)

Rev. Wright Delivers Fiery Address to NAACP

Speaking in Detroit, at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 53rd annual "Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner," Rev. Jeremiah Wright took on his critics even while he spoke of a new, unified day coming. You can watch...

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April 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (444)

Mr. Campaign Finance Reform Exploited Campaign Finance Loophole

The New York Times today takes a gander at how, during the dark days of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year, he used a corporate jet owned by the company his wife Cindy heads. The campaign used it for...

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April 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (14)

Tom Hayden Looks at Clinton's 60s Past

In The Nation, former 60s radical Tom Hayden -- in an essay called "Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream" -- hammers Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for his association with former Weather Underground member William...

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April 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (142)

Wright Back

Another passage from Rev. Jeremiah Wright's April 13, 2003, sermon "Confusing God and Government" -- perhaps better known as the "God d---- America" speech; watch it HERE -- is making the rounds. Wright says in the sermon, of the Iraq...

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April 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (76)

Clinton Campaign Chair Threatened to Strip Michigan of Delegates in 2004

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has staked her path to the Democratic nomination on the officially illegitimate contests held in Michigan and Florida somehow being recognized, in opposition to Democratic National Committee rules. What's so remarkable about this is that two...

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April 26, 2008 in 2008: Democrats | Permalink | User Comments (234)