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So wait, Joe, break this down for me. You are actually still using the experience line when it comes to Obama? But not only that, in your eyes, Palin is a leader, and Obama is what exactly?! Ah yes, what were your words — “Eloquent,” but not experienced?!
Are you wearing your tefillin too tight?
Cutting off [...]

There needs to be a new discussion in this country about what constitutes readiness for political leadership. Ever since Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his vice presidential candidate, the GOP has loaded television stations across the nation with both Democrats’ and Republicans’ quotes about how Obama is not ready to lead the [...]

Karl Rove all up in the mix, this time trying to block out any chance of Lieberman as the VP pick for McCain.

Rove, President Bush’s former top campaign adviser and arguably the most prominent political operative of the past generation, has no formal role in McCain’s campaign. But he knows much of the Arizona senator’s [...]

Hillary Clinton stops the roll call, showing unity in unprecedented terms, for the unanimous call by acclimation for Barack Obama as the nominee for the Democratic Party for President of the U.S..

That’s right y’all. Tomorrow, Thursday night, Saperstein will be offering the opening invocation on the final evening of the Democratic National Convention, the night that Obama will give his historic nomination acceptance speech, on the 45th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. No pressure, right?
According to the Forward, this is quite probably the [...]

If y’all don’t know this yet, in the media biz, there are “seven dirty words,” that you aren’t allowed to use as part of what the Federal Communications Commission calls “indecency regulations” in American broadcasting. The late comedian George Carlin was well known for his monologue “Filthy Words,” which added fuel to the fire, and [...]

The time has arrived. Awhile back I heard from Mik Moore, who during the 2004 elections ran “Operation Bubbe,” that he was taking a sabbatical from Jewish Funds for Justice to work on the elections.
His project, JewsVote.org, is now live, online. No surprise that this is being launched during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

In [...]

Recently, a rare thing happened. When someone from Campus Watch tries to publish a comment at my blog, Tikun Olam, it’s always because Daniel Pipes or one of his minions is taking another pot shot at me. But a recent comment posted by someone affiliated with the group linked to a post by [...]

How…unoriginal. Biden for the Democratic VP ticket. Disappointing I must say. No, people didn’t get it on their phones first. I saw it on Yahoo News before the “campaign insiders,” meaning you, me, anyone that wanted the text, got the info. Yes, leaked to the press.
I’m unimpressed by this pick. The AP lays [...]

Recently African-Americans have drawn much criticism for their almost unanimous support for presidential candidate Barack Obama—the perception being that blacks vote for Obama primarily because of his race. In response, both black and white Obama supporters have explained their votes by de-emphasizing his skin color and stressing his stances on Iraq, trade, energy and [...]