Liberal Talk Radio

Just when I start to believe the vast HRC conspiracy about Obama’s supposed thinness, Bruno encourages me to take a look at the man’s website. He’s right. So let’s start with Obama’s “Sportsmen” platform: Barack Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters and anglers [...]

Jamal Simmons points out the similarities between an Obama-McCain election and the Santos-Vinick campaign from Season 7 of The West Wing: Then there is Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who is perfectly filling the role Alan Alda played, Arnold Vinick, the older maverick Republican senator from the West (California in the show). Due to his [...]

Did anyone else notice that in his speech to the utterly manic crowd in Houston, Obama opened with Thank you. Y’all know how to do it in Texas! I like Obama, I like his campaign, and I caucused for him here in Washington. But I love that he knows the proper use of the second [...]

If you’re a Fred Kaplan fan (and who isn’t, really?) his diavlog with Bob Wright this week is pretty fantastic. I liked this section in particular where he really lays out the machinations behind the Bush Administration’s foreign policy. Rumsfeld and Cheney weren’t neocons, he notes, but they used those ideas when it was convenient [...]

On this week’s podcast, we talked about how inflation and a general increase in the cost of basic necessities — fuel, health care, etc. — are conspiring to prevent most Americans from seeing any real wage increases. Well, it looks like we can now add food costs to the list: While had Campbell reported a [...]

The Presidential campaign turns to Wisconsin, Texas, and Ohio, the role of China in the changing American economy, and finally: what’s really going on with the Navy’s decision to shoot down that satellite? Links Mentioned: Polls in Texas and Clinton’s dubious delegate strategy… Krugman on poverty Robert Reich on the economy … Russia’s new president

I’m beginning think that the Clinton campaign intends the“Obama plagirism” story as a feint to prevent the news cycle from focusing on the rising story of the Clinton campaign’s flat-footed responsiveness in the face of a real national campaign. The last thing the Clinton campaign needs is for its vaunted competence to come into question [...]

Due to the Presidents’ Day holiday, we’ll be a day late on the podcast this week. Expect to hear from us on Monday. In the meantime, if you live in Seattle, enjoy the fantastic weather this weekend.

Here’s the first poll showing him leading in one of the key the March 4 states. It’s an outlier, to be sure, but here’s Pollster.com’s trend graph: As I’ve said before, the Obama campaign has an uncanny knack for managing the momentum of this race. He manages to be behind in every race right up [...]

Says Greg Sargent. This seems like as good a time as any to lay out my theory that… Al Gore won’t endorse anyone. In addition to touring the world with his slide show, Al Gore has also joined Kleiner Perkins, the mother of all Silicon Valley venture capital firms, as a partner. He’s focusing on [...]