Politics

“You want it to be one way. But it’s the other way.” —Marlo —Hillary Clinton hasn’t crossed the Rubicon yet, but let’s just say that her advance team is fashioning a drawbridge and the plebes are being told to take shelter behind the city walls. Next week in Denver, Sen. Clinton and former president Bill…

Who in the heck is Pastor Rick Warren, and how did he get so much clout? Where did he get the power—and gall—to dragoon Barack Obama and John McCain into his mega-church this past Saturday night and submit them to back-to-back, hour-long, televised grillings about their moral and religious beliefs? This is the kind of…

Thanks to the digging of The Atlantic Monthly’s Joshua Green, we now have a sense of what a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been like. And, Lord knows, it would not have been pretty. The most eye-catching detail to emerge from The Atlantic’s reporting, thus far, is the battle plan devised by Clinton’s chief strategist…

Now that the presidential campaign is entering the homestretch and Barack Obama’s formal nomination at the Democratic Party’s national convention is just weeks away, it’s time to issue a primer for those older “black leaders” who still can’t seem to bear Obama’s ascendance. We already have a “Greatest Generation.” We don’t need a Hater Generation—a group so…

Allow me to apologize up-front for not drinking the Obama-aid. I like the reed-thin, caramel-colored, left-handed-jump-shot-having senator from Illinois and will probably vote for him, especially given the alternative. But I have had it with the Obama minions who decry any criticism, even policy-based, of him or his campaign. I don’t buy that “anything off-message…

Why, with the election less than three months away, is Barack Obama still embroiled in negotiations with his supposedly defeated rival for the nomination over how much of the limelight she and her husband will hog at the Democratic National Convention? Sure, John Edwards unwittingly stole the spotlight this weekend, with his forced admission of…

“Well, how could they be jamming us if they don’t know…if we’re coming?” – Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) If you watch TV or go to the movies, you’re already pretty familiar with the black sidekick. From Rochester to Robin Quivers, there is frequently at least one African American in the crew to provide a…

As much as I hate that the poster children for Valtrex and Child Protective Services (Paris Hilton and Britney Spears) have been injected into our political debate, a practical part of me recognizes that any campaign staffer paying attention to the election coverage would be forced to craft voter appeals aimed at the lowest common…

“So drink some prune juice and let the shit go.” —Ludacris If you’re in NYC this weekend, keep an eye out for Al Sharpton on the dance floor at 40/40. He’ll be the one gripping a bottle of Moët, sandwiched in-between two supermodels with his tie loosened, sweating out his conk and hollering along with…

This weekend I finally opened the quarterly statements for my retirement accounts. After a few minutes of weeping and a few more spent calculating how many additional years I would now be forced to labor in the vineyard, I had a thought that cheered me. Sure, the economy is staggering. Sure, we are five years…