A nation built with African slaves inaugurates an African-American President. A nation driven by culture wars born out of the Vietnam era moves into hope for more pragmatic, if still partisan, politics. A nation fallen into the darkness of torture, of "collateral damage" of hundreds of thousands of ...

Or "Dick Fingers." [via Shelley]...

There seems to be a lot of victim mind out there in the blogosphere these days directed at Barack Obama. For example, Reclusive Leftist's post, "Fuck off, Obama": Actually, what women everywhere now know is that this country still isn’t ready for a woman President. That if a woman runs for Preside...

Raw Story: "I came here for the vote of every American, and our Democratic Party threw us down the tubes," New Yorker Harriet Christian said after yesterday's meeting of the Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee. Senator Clinton is the "best nominee possible" for President, said Ms. Christia...

She keeps going and going and going.... But at this point, does she's sounding like Bush does when he talks about Iraq. She's lost her grasp. Either that, or she's actually fighting a bloody fight for control of the Democratic Party, election be damned. I can't see her continuous attacks on Barack O...

I don't like Hillary Clinton for many reasons, mainly: her slippery non-positions on some issues, her demagoguery on other issues (even when I might agree), her "taking responsibility" for her support of the war on Iraq while not taking any responsibility, and the smarmy tone of her campaign more wo...

Hillary Clinton was grinning from ear to ear while North Carolina Governor Mike Easley endorsed her by saying she's no "pansy." It's the kind of veiled homophobic slur wingnuts use. We remind you that both Easley and Clinton are Democrats. Never mind the innuendo directed at Barack Obama. What about...

We have children eating mud pies -- literally, pies made of mud, water and a little butter [audio] -- while at the same time Mars, a candy company, buys Wrigley, a chewing gum company, for $23 billion. Twenty-three billion dollars. What an opportunity Mars/Wrigley has to donate some big money to hel...

What seems apparent to me -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- is that the Hillary Clinton campaign is waging a battle to retain (or restore) the DLC control of the Democratic Party. Why else this suicide run ostensibly aimed at the White House. She has no mathematical chance of winning, save for a Sup...

Watching the news online, it was clear what the debate story was today: Washington Post television critic Tom Shales, in an April 17 article headlined "In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC," described the debate as "another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the ...