The State of Obama’s Union

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  January 27th at 12:00 PM  | 

As we approach President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address, it is worth taking a look at where Obama stands with the public one year into The One’s presidency. As previously discussed here, Obama began his term with higher approval ratings that any president since John F. Kennedy, and lower disapproval ratings of any president except George H. W. Bush.  But a year | Read More »

McCain in a Walk

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  September 27th at 12:35 AM  | 

When John McCain suspended his campaign on Wednesday and asked for a postponement of tonight’s debate, Barack Obama’s initial reaction was to hurl an insult, saying that he could handle the Wall Street bailout negotiations and debate at the same time. It was a foreshadowing of the juvenile, petty, and petulant candidate that would show up in Oxford, Mississippi tonight. McCain won this debate on | Read More »

BREAKING: GOP Suspends Convention Activities

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  August 31st at 03:36 PM  | 

GOP Officials just held a press conference here in St. Paul, Minnesota, to announce changes to the convention schedule in advance of Hurricane Gustav making landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast. Sen. McCain has directed that all convention activities outside of necessary business be suspended until further notice. RNC Chairman Mike Duncan said that the convention must meet tomorrow to constitute itself. But he said | Read More »

Axelrod: Obama Campaign Based on Race [UPDATED]

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  August 1st at 09:37 AM  | 

Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod went on Good Morning America this morning to address McCain campaign manager Rick Davis’ asertion that Obama is playing the race card. Interviewer Chris Cuomo played Obama’s comments from yesterday in reaction to McCain’s brilliant “Celeb” ad in which Obama’s readiness to lead the country is brought into question. Obama said, “What they’re [Bush and McCain] going to | Read More »

Slow Down There, Marc Ambinder

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  July 21st at 12:13 AM  | 

Three days and three translations later, the shock waves from the alleged Nuri al-Maliki “endorsement” of Sen. Barack Obama’s timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq have been tempered by a statement from the Prime Minister’s office making clear that the German magazine Der Spiegel got it all wrong. In their rapture at the thought that their golden boy had conquered Sen. John McCain | Read More »

Barack Obama’s Judgment Means Longer Wars

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  July 18th at 08:34 PM  | 

The McCain campaign has been showing signs of life, as Moe deftly points out. There is one issue that we know motivates McCain enough to go on the offensive, and that is national security in general and the war in Iraq in particular. Barack Obama is set to travel to Iraq to view firsthand the success of the troop surge strategy that he opposed. And | Read More »