Ridiculous, right? But that has not stopped the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Senator Coburn, a former Lt. Governor of New York and miscellaneous right wing radio talk show hosts and Fox News from making some outrageous charges about two relatively benign and wonky features of the Stimulus...

Henrietta Hughes is the homeless woman in Fort Myers, Florida, who asked President Obama for help at his Town Hall. What did Obama do? He stepped off the stage, hugged her, and said his staff would talk to her after the Town Hall. And as a result of...

Go, Sam Stein! One of the handful of reporters who were called upon to ask a question at President Obama's first press conference was Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.

His question was whether or not Obama supported the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in order...

UPDATE: Despite the issues that arose this week around Daschle and Killefer's tax problems, I stick with my assessment that Obama has been handling these challenges exceptionally well. "Embracing error" as he did over the Daschle appointment helps to diffuse opposition and lays the blame where it belongs -- with...

Despite the terrible punning opportunities here, this is a serious issue. Republicans are attacking a provision in the stimulus bill that would allow states to cover family planning services for low income women without applying for a federal waiver. How, the Republicans ask, is this a job stimulus?...

On Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 19th, President-elect Obama has encouraged all Americans to participate in some type of service in their community. To facilitate that, the Inaugural Committee has set up another of their great websites, Usaservice.org , with an easy to use sign-up...

Despite the bad economic news and the even worse international news, it looks like 2009 might just result in real health reform. Why will 2009 be different from 1993? Obama is not making the same mistakes the Clintons did, and that is good news for all...

I'm in Hawaii. No big deal (but really nice). So are the Obamas. And everyone here is aware of the fact that they are here. There was a lot of Obamamania in Hawaii before they arrived -- t-shirts and knick knacks with Obama family faces. And on the Windward side...

Times are tough and may get worse. If you are one of the lucky few like me who has a job, a house or apartment you don't have to sell or vacate, and a decent income, you probably still feel anxious and maybe even a little guilty. Not all the...

In Sarah Palin's interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Monday evening, she referred to bloggers as "kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents' homes" spewing out mean and inaccurate things about her. Well, I am no kid, I am definitely not wearing pajames and I...

On the morning after the most historic election in our history, newspapers all over the country blared out mile high headlines. "OBAMA" the New York Times shouted. But only a few hours after Obama was declared the President-elect, the advice giving started. Don't get arrogant, a Phoenix...

All my friends are asking me, "When will we know the results of the election?" NOW we know.. It's 8 pm on the east coast and we now know that Obama has won because he just was declared the winner in Pennsylvania. The analysis below still pertains, but Pennsylvania went...

It is no wonder people criticize and revile the mainstream media, especially CNN. Just a few hours ago, CNN showed an interview with Sarah Palin and a CNN reporter, Drew Griffin. Griffin had already sullied his reputation by repeating lies about Obama and Bill Ayers or ACORN, and then...

The eye of the political storm is always calm. Never mind the ads, the national polls, the robocalls, the ugly stuff. It's all about the ground game. In the midst of the political turmoil, the ground game is what matters.

In football, focusing on the ground game generally means...

I don't know about you, but those focus groups with their instant responses on the screen are driving me nuts. I want the Commission on Presidential Elections to outlaw them next time -- well, it's four years away, but still.... in the second presidential debate I could not keep my...

If you watched the presidential debate on CNN, you could watch the green and orange lines of the focus group reacting to everything each candidate said. What is quite amazing is that men reacted more slowly than women and men tended to react less to McCain's tough rhetoric than women.

A Republican plan radical? Can't be. But it is. Even McCain's own advisors call his plan radical. Barack Obama is launching a direct attack on the radical aspects of McCain's proposed health reform plan. The most radical part of McCain's plan, and the most counter-intuitive to many...

It was Republican Representative John Boehner who called the bailout a "crap sandwich", not me - but it's a hilarious image, coming from Republicans who generally support this crap. More important to me is the relationship between the financial crisis and any potential health reform package that might emerge from...

Among the many criticisms of Sarah Palin's qualifications to be Vice President (or President), perhaps the most powerful is the comparison of her personality and behavior to that of President George W. Bush. It is not a flattering comparison.

In a review of Bob Woodward's new book The War Within...

Just now in the presidential debates, McCain said that Obama doesn't know strategy. I blogged on this a few weeks ago. McCain is wrong.

In Senator Obama's speech on foreign policy today in Washington D.C. called "A New Strategy for a New World", he demonstrated that he understands...