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...

It's hard to believe that the post I wrote about McCain's selection of Palin (The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for John McCain) was only 3 weeks ago! The moment he made his announcement, I felt it was a very bad choice, but I had no idea...

Remember when Charlie Brown would run up to the ball and Lucy would pull it away? That's kind of what the Business Roundtable did this week in its health reform proposal.

Here's our health plan folks, but wait! While you will be required to get health insurance, we...

With everything else in the news, you may not have had the time to pay attention to the differences between the Obama and McCain health plans. But converging with the bad financial news is new information about just how radical John McCain's health reform proposal is.

A new...

If Charlie Gibson asked me if I were prepared to be the President of the United States .... and if I had the experience, both life and professional, of Sarah Palin, I would not answer the way she did on ABC News this past week. I would not...

Our politics reward short answers to complicated questions. Those answers satisfy what scientists call the lizard brain, that primitive part of our brain that responds automatically and emotionally and not reflectively. I have been thinking for awhile that Obama needs to give shorter answers to the lizard-type questions. At the...

Maybe you thought I was talking about Barack Obama? No, I was actually referring to Sarah Palin. She will deliver a dynamic speech at the Republican Convention, but is a great speech enough to be the leader we need?

The Republican talking points are trying to convince us that Sarah...

I think we will look back at today as the day when the Republicans most certainly lost the Presidency. In choosing Sarah Palin of Alaska for Vice President, the Republicans have made a cynical but clever choice. At least they think it is clever. She is a woman, young (44...

God help us. CNN is doing what they are paid to do. Find something critical to say about everything.

Watching the opening night of the Democratic Convention, I was amazed and appalled by the CNN coverage. Even though I knew they had to fill up time, all they did was...

I am truly surprised by the number of my otherwise well-informed friends who support Obama, who still say, Barack Obama really needs to get more specific with his policies. People really don't know where he stands. I don't know if they haven't been paying attention, if the press just...