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The Foreign Policy “Experience” Games – Starring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Though they’ve thrown charges of “inexperience” back and forth at each other off and on during the course of their respective campaigns over the last year or so, this week the Obama and Clinton campaigns have launched an all out assault on each other’s claims of “foreign policy experience,” mostly with Team Clinton trying to defend their assertions about the Senator’s time as First Lady and the traveling she did to foreign countries, and accusing the Obama campaign of waging a “fundamentally misleading attack” on the junior Senator from New York regarding her foreign policy experience assertions......   [Read More]

McCain: The anti-pork candidate

While conservatives have many legitimate disagreements about McCain, I think one thing most of us can agree on is that when it comes to pork spending, McCain – though not perfect – truly is a “maverick” even within his own party which, in spite of its rhetoric decrying the practice of budget-busting earmarks, sees many in the House and Senate happily partaking in the process. Of this, Robert Novak writes:.....   [Read More]

The DNC’s Florida and Michigan problem

The debate over what to do about the Florida and Michigan delegates continued to rage on over the weekend with the the talking head shows weighing in with their .02. I think Hillary is actually gaining some momentum with her case for either seating the delegates as they stand now from the original primary votes, or holding a new vote to determine how many delegates each candidate will get. Obama is reluctant, I think, because he stands ahead at this point in the delegate count, and perhaps feels that he wouldn’t win in FL and MI. .....   [Read More]

North Carolina: Ground Zero for the next Super Tuesday?

Just a few months ago I was complaining about the fact that by the time NC gets their turn during the primary season, that at that point the candidates already had enough delegates for the nomination. While that may be true on the Republican side, things are quite different on the Dem side. Chris Cillizza at the Wapo’s Fix blog speculates that Tuesday May 6th will be the next Super Tuesday (h/t: Betsy Newmark):.....   [Read More]