Author: BooMan

Bob Johnson is Back

Back at the end of February I wrote a piece about the challenge race poses for Barack Obama, called ‘What’s it Mean to be Uppity?’. I was criticizing several members of the press for saying that Obama was too...

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Do Me a Favor on The Torture

I am going to make an unusual request. Last Friday, the President of the United States admitted that he knew and approved of his National Security Committee holding ‘Principals Meetings’ where various forms of...

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The Lieberman Juggernaut

Lieberman is on fire: NAPITALIANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?...

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Misunderstanding Clinton’s Problem

You know, all this hand-wringing about young women’s alleged alienation from second-wave feminists would have a lot more saliency if Hillary Clinton were not a representative of the New Democratic wing of the party, if her...

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Partisanship vs. Post-Partisanship

It’s ironic that Chris Bowers decided to post about the advantages of partisanship this morning because I have been thinking more and more about the advantages of post-partisanship. It’s not that I really disagree...

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