Jeff Jarvis compares an instance of sock-puppetry by an employee of the Politico (and the Politico’s blase attitude about it) with the kerfuffle noted in today’s New York Times over whether Mayhill Fowler should have identified herself when asking Bill Clinton for a reaction to Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on the former president.  In the comments to his post, Jarvis goes a bit further on questions of identity on

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder: Strategists for both John McCain and Barack Obama are chewing over a hypothetical scenario wherein Barack Obama recieves millions more votes than John McCain, but, because of the distribution of votes in the electoral college, McCain would become the president… *** So what happens if this scenario comes true? Well, Obama would be in the position of arguing that the popular vote matters more than the

Sunday’s New York Times contains a bit of self-refuting dreck from Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, headlined “Obama Is Mapping a Nationwide Push in G.O.P. Strongholds”: Senator Barack Obama’s general election plan calls for broadening the electoral map by challenging Senator John McCain in typically Republican states — from North Carolina to Missouri to Montana — as Mr. Obama seeks to take advantage of voter turnout operations built in nearly 50

Chase Utley, as is his wont, tripled in what would prove to be the winning run against Atlanta tonight.  His arrival at the plate for the at-bat prompted the following exchange on the Braves network: Joe Simpson:  “I’d be careful on the the first pitch with this guy.” Skip Carey:  “I’d be careful on all the subsequent ones, too.”

The UN’s top nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBardei, tells Der Spiegel in an upcoming interview that the current trend of atomic proliferation is creating an unprecedented threat to world peace. Unilateral military actions, like Israel’s strike against Syria last fall, he says, are only making matters worse. By my count, Israel has stopped nuclear prolifieration in Iraq and Syria, which ElBaradei and the IAEA failed to do.  Moreover, the push for

Hillary Clinton has finally announced she is suspending her presidential campaign, and urging her supporters to back Barack Obama in the general election.  Yet her speech opened and closed with generous doses of gender politics. Back in February, when I first noted the similarities between Clinton’s increasingly losing run and those of Jesse Jackson, there were some who did not see the heavy gender angle and grievance politics over the disputed primaries

Inasmuch as it is a long-running joke here at pw for commenters to denounce themselves for politically incorrect viewpoints, it is worth noting that folks like Richard Clarke and Keith Olbermann would like to have a “truth and reconciliation commission process” established for the Iraq hawks from the Bush administration (for starters).  According to Clarke, we cannot let such people back into “polite society.”  Unlike unrepentant domestic terrorists like tenured

At the HuffPo, Andy Ostroy claims that the sleazy GOP attack machine is kicking into high gear against Barack Obama. He is quite upset that Sean Hannity was calling Obama “radical” on his radio show Thursday, but he seems even more upset by Hannity’s audience: Listening to Hannity’s program makes you wonder if he and his kool-aid-drunken listeners are not part of some twisted, brainwashed cult. They greet each other

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.  And Obama’s growing relationship with Chicago’s Mayor Daley, as well as his endorsements of Democrats who champion the kind of patronage politics Obama used to denounce as the worst of the “old politics” (a charge Obama now answers by saying, “Sometimes you pay your debts”), has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way. This week,