Watching Obama on 60 Minutes Made me Feel Patriotic... (Almost)
What a thrill to have as a President-elect a man who speaks in whole sentences, who has well-enunciated thoughts, a readily accessible grasp of history -- and a sense of humor to boot.
What a thrill to have as a President-elect a man who speaks in whole sentences, who has well-enunciated thoughts, a readily accessible grasp of history -- and a sense of humor to boot.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
John McCain unveiled a new attack on Barack Obama's patriotism Saturday, jumping all over - and taking out of context - remarks made yesterday in whic...
Hilary Beard | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home
The McCain/Palin campaign has engaged in an abominable campaign of painting Obama and his backers as "un-American." But Obama's supporters know that the candidate personifies the American dream.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
Some harsh talk from Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK): Regardless of what polls show, Inhofe said, voters will have to ask themselves a question once they ge...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics
These topics are trivial in the long run. And Democrats would be hard pressed to make an issue out of this when they've been bemoaning the use of it a...
Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
Ok. I'm 57 years old and cast my first vote in 1972--proudly, I will add--for George McGovern, but in the intervening 36 years I have rarely felt pro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
Two of the Senate's most prominent war critics took to the defense of Barack Obama among withering criticism that his opposition to the surge was driv...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
Continuing the campaign battles over issues of war and patriotism, Barack Obama accused John McCain of using the successes of the surge to hide the fa...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
The Obama camp is pushing a new theme in Pennsylvania tomorrow -- it's called the "Buy American, Vote Obama" campaign. ... According to an Obama aid...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Does Joe Lieberman not realize that he is using one of the oldest anti-semitic tricks in the book to accuse Obama of being the Islamic candidate?
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest labor organization mailed 600,000 fliers to swing union voters in four states Tuesday in an effort to help Dem...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
The Politico reports that, having tried unsuccessfully to paint Barack Obama as a liberal flip-flopper, John McCain is getting personal: As Senator B...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign, which has said it doesn't question Obama's patriotism, is now doing something awfully similar: Claiming that Barack Obama and the...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
This line from a top McCain adviser, in a Politico article on Obama's efforts to convince the electorate that he's American through and through, is un...
Bob Franken | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Can we just stipulate that each of the candidates devoutly loves this country, since there's no way to disprove otherwise? Slimy rumormongering just won't cut it.
John Lumea | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Attacks on Obama's patriotism fueled by fear-mongering speculation about his religious faith demand a vigorous defense of patriotism on First Amendment grounds. That's not what we got this week.
Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama used a speech on patriotism to rebuke MoveOn.org's "General Betray Us" ad last year: Caricatures of left and right . . . most evident ...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others' patriotism during the race and bla...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others' patriotism during the race and bla...
Time | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
How the candidates define their love of country may help determine the election's outcome. Time asked each for his view of the meaning of patriotism. ...
Chicago Tribune | Mike Dorning | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
So what is that on Barack Obama's lapel as he speaks at a town meeting in conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Cape Girardeau, Mo.? ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Underlining the inanity of last night's Democratic debate, at the same time that Senator Barack Obama's patriotism was being questioned because of his...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
As a reader noticed, Obama was sporting the much-debated flag pin for his speech to veterans today....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
Very few things fail to impress me more than sad arguments over a Presidential candidate's level of "patriotism." I am sufficiently convinced that al...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
The Conservative blogosphere says that Barack Obama isn't patriotic enough to be President because he was photographed without his hand over his heart...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
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The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Peter Clothier | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media