The Swamp

Obama wins William Buckley's son

by Frank James Little late to the party on this but it's still worth noting. Christopher Buckley, son of the late conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. With typical Buckleyan wit, the former Esquire editor...

Obama and guns: Reassuring Ohio voters

by Jill Zuckman CHILLICOTHE, Ohio - The southeastern corner of this political showdown state, with its heavily Appalachian flavor is a place where presidential candidates need to convince voters that they can be trusted. Folks living here among the rolling...

Bush: 100 days to the finish line

by Mark Silva KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. - For President Bush, the end is near. On Sunday, he will have 100 days left in his presidency. He warned everyone that he would be "sprinting'' to the finish, but nobody had an...

Obama, the new Reagan?

By Paul West Every so often, luck and circumstance give birth to an accidental congressman or senator, a politician who lands in Washington mainly by being in the right place at the right time. Once in a very long while,...

Swamp Sunrise

Alaska report: Palin abused her power

by James Oliphant From the New York Times: A legislative committee investigating Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican vice presidential candidate, issued a report Friday night that found she unlawfully abused her authority by firing the state's public...

McCain: Obama 'decent' but 'lied'

by Mark Silva Today, at the end of a long and tumultuous week on the campaign trail. Republican John McCain appeared to want to have it two ways with his Democratic rival, Barack Obama: At once slamming Obama with a...

Obama is too ambitious?

by Frank James Two new ads today from the Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign -- one for TV, the other for the web -- both mention Sen. Barack Obama's ambition using modifiers like "blind" and "vast" to describe it....

McCain, Palin should 'rein it in': Gergen

by Frank James David Gergen, sometime presidential adviser and CNN analyst, was on Steven Colbert's show last night and had advice for Sen. John McCain -- the Republican presidential nominee needs to "rein in" his attacks as well as...

White House: McCain 'time to close'

by Mark Silva CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Sitting near the home of Sergio Pino, a Miami-area developer playing host to a $500,000 fundraiser for the Republican Party's congressional candidates this afternoon in the gated, mansion-studded community of Cocoplum: This is...

Obama union ally hits racism head on

by Frank James National Public Radio's Don Gonyea had a terrific story on "Morning Edition" today on how labor leader Richard Trumka has been challenging white union members who are reluctant to vote for Sen. Barack Obama for racial...

Is McCain endangering Obama?

by James Oliphant History has proven that some Americans don't take to social change with grace. And with the troubled economy, the wars, and the now real prospect of the first African-American president, there is, in pockets of the...

Obama decries McCain politics of anger

by Jill Zuckman Chillicothe, Ohio - Barack Obama accused his rival, John McCain, of "stoking anger and division" amid "a barrage of nasty insinuations and attacks" during a morning rally rally here. The charge came as McCain released a new...

In politics, Chicago way is American way

by Frank James Chicago is once again drawing fire from Republicans who have seemingly convinced themselves that they have to run not only against Sen. Barack Obama but against an entire city. Sen. John McCain, for instance, has recently gone...

Bush: 'Anxiety feeds anxiety'

by Mark Silva President Bush, addressing the nation at a "deeply unsettling period for the American people,'' vowed today that the government will solve the underlying problems of the financial meltdown that was dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average down...