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,

At TIME magazine, Karen Tumulty has a piece titled “How Obama Did It,” which adds a few nuggets to the tale of the Obama organization (which the Washington Post this week suggested was untold, though pw regulars know better). The first nugget is one of Obama’s seemingly unlikely inspirations: When Betsy Myers first met with Obama in his Senate office on Jan. 3, 2007, about two weeks before he announced

Oh. Dear. Lord: Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway. This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae – or no antennae at all – to all those who just don’t understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama’s

TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan, a prominent Religious Leftist, is again shamelessly shilling for Barack Obama with a story asking, “Why Didn’t More Women Vote for Hillary?” One of the Democratic campaign’s great misperceptions has been that Clinton held an overwhelming advantage among women voters. But that isn’t the case. As expected, Clinton captured the over-65 vote, and Obama won over younger women. But women in the middle split almost evenly between

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.  And it has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way. Late Friday afternoon is an ideal time to learn about a staple of Chicago culture: the canarble wagon.  It explains much about the historical relationship between Chicago journos and the pols they cover.  Plus, you may want one of

CBN News Senior National Correspondent David Brody suggests that Barack Obama could get up to 40 percent of the evangelical vote this November, based on a comment from Evangelical Public Relations Executive Mark DeMoss: If one third of white evangelicals voted for Bill Clinton the second time, at the height of Monica Lewinsky mess—that’s a statistic I didn’t believe at first but I double and triple checked it—I would not