Let me get this straight. It's perfectly fair for Barack Obama and his cohorts to repeatedly disparage President Bush's foreign policy as "cowboy diplomacy" but unspeakably horrific for Bush to analogize the Democrats' approach to foreign policy to appeasing Hitler? When Obama compared Hillary Clinton's threats against Iran to President B...

As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand." Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder. Sixty-nine percent disapproves of President Bush. Eighty-one percent thinks America is on the wrong course. Inflation is at 4 percent and rising. Unem...

If NASCAR governed the 2008 race for the Democratic nomination, this would be called "The Chase." In NASCAR, that is the period when the regular season is over and the winner of the season-ending cup championship is named based on who won the most points in "The Chase." For Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, they easily dis...

BARACK OBAMA-JESSE JACKSON: "Our time has come!" His time has gone. OBAMA-JESSE VENTURA: Former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee had Chuck Norris watching his back. Why shouldn't Obama have a former pro wrestler with demonstrated electability watching his? Both men champion change. Ventura proved that sometimes voters care more about on...

HILLARY CLINTON-GLORIA STEINEM: Just to make the old boy network short-circuit. That plus Geraldine Ferraro as chief of staff. CLINTON-MARTHA STEWART: Stewart built an empire — something handy as Clinton continues the Bush doctrine in Iraq on Day One. Hillary sees cookie baking as a housefrau chore; Martha sees it as a way to boost stock opti...

Hillary Rodham Clinton recently jumped on Barack Obama for what her aides called "a pretty big flip-flop" as Obama began to backpedal from a pledge to participate in the federal public campaign financing program in the general election. The program would limit each presidential nominee's spending to $85 million in taxpayer-donated dollars...

It is never a good sign in a democracy when people vote out of fear or coercion. That's the irony of the Hillary Clinton candidacy. Some female supporters strongly believe that as a woman, you have to vote for THIS WOMAN. Behind all the testosterone-charged chatter on cable news is the murmur of our own "Va-Jay-Jay Monologue." If you've g...

Democrats across the country are abuzz over the possibility of the "dream ticket," featuring Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama running for the White House in November. In the words of one of "The Sopranos" characters, "Fuggetaboutit!" Look, this might sound exciting and history-making to have a woman and an Africa...

No matter how many thousands of players visit poker rooms across the nation, it's a safe bet 10 times that number can be found at any given time playing in home games. That number is about to grow. Hey LuckyDog: My friends and I would like to start up a friendly Texas hold 'em game. Should we use a tournament format like what's on TV, where player...

If you have any doubts as to whether this presidential campaign season has lasted too long and soured voters on the whole political process, look at the favorable/unfavorable poll ratings of the candidates. Premier pollster Scott Rasmussen's latest polling of likely voters nationally shows that most Democrats and Republicans have higher negative th...