In the last presidential election, leftist special interest groups and socialist billionaires like George Soros waged war with an unprecedented tsunami of negative TV attacks on the Republican incumbent, suggesting he was a draft dodger that knowingly lied us into war. Adding fuel to the fire, Hollywood uncorked nasty — and equally distorted ...

Almost every week, a new damaging story emerges about Barack Obama. Lucky for this wounded "messiah" that his disciples in the mainstream media neglect, until the last possible minute, their duty to investigate these reports. This week, there's a brand-new one, which has surfaced too late to affect the critically important Indiana and Nor...

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...

Where did the Hillary Clinton campaign first go wrong? How did she go from inevitable to in trouble? I think it all began with the very first contest: Iowa. Iowa is where Clinton needed to strangle the Barack Obama campaign in its crib. She needed to do him in at the very beginning, while her inevitability argument still had credibility. True, some...

Sweet Jesus! What has gotten into the Democratic Party when it comes to issues of faith? On Sunday, CNN will broadcast the Compassion Forum, an event hosted by CNN's Campbell Brown and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. It will explore issues of faith and morality with Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This is the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At last Thursday's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the government's historic bailout of Bear Stearns, two questions were expected. Who set the initial bargain basement price of $2 a share for the investment bank? Who picked JPMorgan Chase as the fortunate buyer? Those questions were not clearly asked, and were not answe...

Even as the rest of the Democratic Party around him takes sides in the epic struggle of Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama, Al Gore remains inscrutable, silent, above the battle. His gigantic but unspoken presence is raising rumors and fueling speculation. Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine, even suggested a scenario that has a deadlocked conven...

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...