Politics

In its first post in the category “Third World Country,” RedPhoneDiairies links to an Associated Press article, L.A. seeing more people living out of their cars, available at the International Herald Tribune website, among others. Continue reading →

Tonight on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, David Gergen quoted an unnamed Hillary Clinton heavy-hitter fundraiser who threatened that unless Hillary was given the VP nod by Obama, her people were coming to Denver either “looking for a roll call vote or looking to raise hell.” Continue reading →

On August 28th, 2008, the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’ “I Have a Dream” speech on the Washington Mall, Barack Obama will take to an outdoor venue high in the Rocky Mountains to officially claim the mantle of Democratic nominee for president in 2008. Continue reading →

Jonathan Alter makes a strong case for why Obama should choose the former Senator from Georgia as his Veep. Seems like Nunn has been around forever, right? He’s actually three years younger than McCain.

Barack Obama made the wrong call when he decided to opt out of the public financing system. Broder has it right. Aside from the immediate and short-lived hit he is taking in terms of “flip-flopping” or “breaking his promise” etc., he opted out of 85 million dollars, fundamentally, because he believes he can raise far more than that amount from his vast army of supporters, and from Hillary’s vast army of supporters. Continue reading →

The message to the Clintons that is, from the Obama Campaign, as it announced the hiring of former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis-Doyle. Jonathan Allen reports on the news today for CQ Politics. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said nothing could be inferred about Obama’s thoughts on a vice presidential candidate from the hiring of Solis Doyle… Continue reading →

Tim, we miss you already.

Prayers, from all of us at RedPhoneDiaires.

Even standing amid the tearful aging hippies in Central Park, in what would become known as Strawberry Fields, a day or two after John Lennon was killed, listening to the stunned and swaying crowd sing along to the lyrics of his famous anthem, Imagine, even then the editor of RedPhoneDiaries believed it to be one of the most idiotic songs ever written. Nothing to live or die for? No religion too? Imagine all the people, living for today? Frankly, we would rather not. Finally, Bret Stephens, writing in his column Global View for the Wall Street Journal, explains why.

William McGurn writes an incisive article in his Main Street column in today’s Wall Street Journal opinion page, Obama, Religion and the Public Square. It seems apparent already, early in the general election campaign, that Barack Obama will do more to inject religion into the national debate than will the Republican nominee, John McCain. McGurn explains why this is a very good thing for the Democratic Party, and the nation.

Time Magazine piece by Amy Sullivan (Thursday, June 5th), Why Didn’t More Women Vote for Hillary Clinton? disputes the conventional wisdom, which has been that Hillary as Veep will bring Obama the women voters who rejected him in the primary season. They did not reject him. Indeed, women under 40 embraced him, women over 60 went for Hillary, and and he and Hillary broke even with women voters in between, and women voters overall. So, scratch one more reason for Obama to consider taking Billary as his VP.