By M.S. Bellows, Jr. and Mayhill Fowler

Back in June, during a flurry of telephonic press conferences by both campaigns on national defense issues featuring John Kerry (Dem-MA) for Obama and Joe Lieberman (Vichy-CT) for McCain, one of us (Bellows) wondered: is it possible that Obama already has chosen...

I am so sick and tired of Democrats capitulating to right-wing demands. But last week, once again, the Democrats demonstrated they lack the courage to stand by their ideals, if that's what we can call them. In her weekly radio address, Nancy Pelosi stated she would consider offshore drilling and...

Joe Lieberman is being vetted as a Vice Presidential running mate for John McCain, and it seems to be an option that McCain is seriously considering.

Noted Duran Duran scholar Kathryn Jean Lopez says that Rush Limbaugh no likey:

OffTheBus is collaborating with Brian Lehrer and WNYC Radio on their "30 Issues In 30 Days." Here's a brief project intro from none other than the host, Brian Lehrer:

"The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC Radio is using the wisdom of crowds to help produce some great election coverage....

Well, Obama's Challenge my book -- excerpted this week at the Huffington Post -- is stimulating a lot of press, but not exactly the sort I had in mind. It set off a huge controversy about what's fair play in the publishing industry.

What's fair? You...

Who is George Lakoff and why should you care? The short answer is that he might make you a smarter voter, explain many of today's toughest political conundrums, and inoculate you against political spin and propaganda.

Lakoff is a cognitive scientist and linguist who has written several groundbreaking...

Francine Schachter had her first political discussion at the age of 6 when a classmate told her Franklin Roosevelt would lose the upcoming presidential election. Schachter "wouldn't let her get away with that!" And 74 years later, when it comes to politics, she still won't let anyone get away with...

Condi Rice is an expert on Russia. So maybe this latest crisis is all part of a plan....

All but about six or seven people in the entire world are now pretty much agreed that the Bush administration's foreign policy has been catastrophically inept and downright detrimental for the United...

Obama Part II: The Hope of Audacity
Adapted from: Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative President (Chelsea Green Publishers. www.obamaschallenge.com)

Who, really, is Barack Obama? The moment may cry out for dramatic national change, but why should we think he will be that rare...

Sam Brownback echoed a lot of what you can read on the Web about the Saddleback faith forum performance of candidates Obama and McCain Saturday. Brownback writes that, with his confident appearance, McCain has won the evangelical vote. I disagree strongly with this assessment. I am an evangelical Christian,...

JERUSALEM -- In the wake of the evangelical Saddleback presidential faith forum and just as the veepstakes heat up for the Republican campaign, 2008 presidential candidate ex-Arkansas governor and Baptist minister with a grin Mike Huckabee turned up for his tenth trip to the Holy Land. The timely invitation came...

I am hoping that circulation of Keith Olbermann's truly remarkable special comment regarding John McCain's intolerable and ultimately unpatriotic insistence on essentially branding his opponent a traitor becomes an obvious reason for disqualifying McCain as a viable candidate for President.

I am hoping this will be a turning point, a...

Yoggi Berra, who could mangle language better than George Bush could ever hope to, though Dubya does a good silver medal performance, couldn't have described the conditions we aging baby boomers and young voters face this election. Since I am from the time that is only taught about in history...

Here I am checking email on Sunday morning, August 17, and up pops a new email from the Bob Barr for President campaign. The email says the Libertarian Party nominee for president is "fighting mad" because he's "been left out in the cold."

To be more specific, former Congressman Bob...

What's behind the dispute between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia?

Look behind all the inflamed propaganda about atrocities on both sides. See through all of the clever rhetoric from the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev or his master, Russian Prime Minister...

Tony Campbell at Examiner.com on July 30 reported that Hillary Clinton supporters are quietly planning a coup to claim the presidential nomination from Barack Obama on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.

At that time, Campbell wrote, "The group, P.U.M.A. (Party Unity My A**), claims that 15 delegates...

The summer has been typical on the Gold Coast of Orange County, California, the most maroon of red counties in the nation. The languid Pacific Ocean has seemed to reflect the leisurely pace of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.

In the cradle of the John Birch Society, the Minutemen and...

The applause might make you think John McCain scored the most points at the Saddleback Civil Forum Saturday. His crisp life begins "at conception" answer to the abortion question left the Rev. Rick Warren looking particularly pleased. As cameras panned the crowd, all the people seemed jubilant.

Compare that to...

While Obama was inside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco raising millions of dollars from deep-pocketed Democrats, OffTheBus community member and reporter Edwin Rutsch was outside taking in the wind-blown fired-up crowd.

"We're out here to make sure California casts more votes for Barack Obama than...

WHO: Christopher McGurk (former Army staff sergeant and infantryman; Iraq and Afghanistan combat veteran; Purple Heart recipient; Bronze Star for Valor recipient) (NYC); Collin McMahon (former Army enlisted artillery observer; Army Ranger; Iraq and Afghanistan veteran) (Savannah, GA); Drew Sloan (former Army infantry captain;...