Barack Obama

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I asked Peter Canellos, the Washington bureau chief and national political columnist for The Boston Globe, Kennedy’s home town...

From the New York Times : Here’s two things worth saying about this. (1) The ads aren’t actually very hard-hitting. Obama has run...

In the next few days, both presidential campaigns will announce their picks for the vice presidential nomination. In the case of...

Apparently, that’s the buzz . He’s been my preferred Democratic Veep candidate all through this cycle: experienced, wise to...

This is what makes democracy so great. Choice : At last, hard-won bipartisan consensus around a set of exquisitely useless...

John McCain today said "We are all Georgians." Matthew Yglesias, a formidable young liberal U.S. blogger (now at a new, frankly...

A rather senior colleague has asked us to write about Jian Ghomeshi ’s column in today’s National Post , in which 25 per cent of...

I just wanted to nod briefly at the way the South Ossetia unpleasantness is playing out in the U.S. presidential election: as a...

Alert Inkless commenter jwl notes that Barack Obama’s gas-pump political ads, eerily reminiscent of the Conservative Party of...