Robert Reich thinks a Obama/Clinton in 2012 is what is needed to save the Obama presidency. My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President. So the Democratic [...]
Hillary Clinton
Who has the best resume?
Timothy Egan points out that the best looking resume doesn’t always make the best leader. Harry S. Truman was ridiculed as a haberdasher — a wonderful old word that fell out of use as men’s clothiers gave way to big-box retailers. He was also the only 20th-century American president without a college degree. Yet Truman [...]
How Barack Obama Won
Chuck Todd & Sheldon Gawiser have a new book out and it is pretty good. MSNBC has an extended excerpt from the book The 2008 election got started early, before the first candidate, Tom Vilsack, officially announced in November 2006. The campaign began in 1999, when word first leaked that then first lady Hillary Clinton [...]
