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Articles Written by: MIKE TACKETT
KABUL, Afghanistan - Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama arrived Saturday in this war-torn country seen as crucial to his foreign policy, but most Afghans did not notice.
Security for the two-day visit of the congressional delegation ...
After decades of turf battles between the White House and Congress over how and when to go to war, a bipartisan commission will issue a report today urging greater collaboration.
The National War Powers Commission, led by two former secretaries of ...
From MIKE TACKETT,
The Swamp,
7 Jul 2008
The Republican consultant had it all figured out.
His candidate: The hero. Wounded in war, stand-up guy, the real face of a generation. His opponent: No military service. Suspicious activity in his past.
He had an unofficial slogan in mind: The ...
Gridiron fans, move over. The Obama campaign hopes to turn the last evening of the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Aug. 28 into a giant rally of voters in a football stadium.
The unusual move, confirmed by two sources, would be an echo of ...
From MIKE TACKETT,
The Swamp,
4 Jul 2008
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wave while boarding Obama's campaign plane at Reagan National Airport June 27, 2008 in Washington, DC. (Photo/Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Say this much for the forced marriage of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: ...
This just in from the Department of False Choices:
Sen. John McCain, the same man who opposed drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge in Alaska, the same man who speaks about the perils of global warming, the same man who gets downright wistful about ...
From MIKE TACKETT,
The Swamp,
21 Jun 2008
As Jake said to Elwood, or was it the other way around: It's time get the band back together.
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama announced this morning and the presumptive Democratic nominee and his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, will make their ...
From MIKE TACKETT,
The Swamp,
20 Jun 2008
The Associated Press in New York reports this morning that Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, is imploring Jewish voters to reject the ongoing, online suggestions that Sen. Barack Obama is a closet Muslim.
Bloomberg, the AP reports, "is ...
From MIKE TACKETT,
The Swamp,
20 Jun 2008
Having Hillary Clinton get behind his presidential candidacy may have been the easy part for Barack Obama, as he now moves to both buttress his campaign's brainpower and unite the notoriously fractious Democratic Party.
The two tasks aren't necessarily ...
Sen. Hillary Clinton's evil twin inhabited her body last Tuesday night. Just as it was becoming abundantly clear that Sen. Barack Obama had secured enough delegates to deliver him the Democratic nomination for president--a reality long in the ...
From MIKE TACKETT,
The Swamp,
7 Jun 2008
