The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
While McCain campaign manager Rick Davis affected not the slightest care in the world, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod refused to play the prophecy game.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
With a this-hurts-me-more-than-it-hurts-you air, Brokaw plopped unfavorable poll results on a dogged but visibly weary McCain, and while he tried to show his game face, it was not his strongest performance.
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Todd Gitlin has high hopes for Barack Obama: Now, thanks to his deft use of the social-network applications of the Web, Obama retains the means for netroots operations, high-octane fund-raising, smear-fighting and get-out-the-vote operations. His more than 3 million names-disproportionately young and energetic-remain a political force as long as he satisfies them that, once in office,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Powell's speech, delivered to Tom Brokaw in large blocs of virtually uninterrupted text, should give the cynic pause.
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Todd Gitlin on Barack Obama's 2008 victory party in Chicago's Grant Park, where student protests turned violent during the Democratic National Convention 40 years ago: “He stands on the shoulders of the crowds of four decades ago,” Mr. Gitlin said....
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
In YouTuber billdemo2’s 7:09 minute video, he first shows Obama’s denials and distancing of himself from his relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist and Weather Underground leader, Bill Ayers, and his wife, former Weatherman, Bernardine Dohrn, followed by video-taped comments by former Weather Underground leaders Ayers, Dohrn, Mark Rudd, and Todd Gitlin on what their plan [...]...
Texas Hold 'Em Blogger (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... Juliet Schor; black historian Manning Marable; historian Howard Zinn; linguist Noam Chomsky; Todd Gitlin; and writers like Gloria Steinem and Barbara Ehrenreich. Socialist? Readers can draw their own conclusions. At one point, Sifry does describe the party’s goals as “social democratic.” In any case, the New Party clearly stands substantially to the left of the mainstream Democratic...
