If I'm Team Obama, I'd change up the traditional nightly convention schedule this year and have Obama's name placed into nomination by Clinton on Tuesday night, thus ensuring the biggest possible TV audience for Bill's speech.
We are in a situation that demands objective scrutiny and attention. This focus can provide the impartial information that our elected officials and we need to arm ourselves and to stand our ground to defend our "inalienable rights" as citizens not just the right to bear arms.
How is it a country like the UK sits by and does nothing while one of their foremost aid recipients is accused of "aiding and abetting" crimes against humanity by the United Nations?
Cameron from the TV show Modern Family once said that "There are dreamers and there are realists in this world." He was right. Leadership comes in many forms.
Solutions and plans will only come if and when the two parties in the Senate begin to talk to each other. Perhaps, with good discussion, a solution (or compromise of some sort) will follow, as that is what happens in the court system.
Is Ronald Reagan really worthy of the hero-worship that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have indulged in? Not so fast.
So, I have become, a Long Walker too, across the decades, steeped in the mythologies and the limits of a process here that has succumbed to division, disillusioning so many who need a Mandela to make them believe again.
Two crises, a half a world away from each other on very strategic, very different bodies of water.
The corruption of politics needs to be stopped. It is epidemic across the nation. But as we work on changing the rules, let us never forget that sometimes candidates aren't always personally responsible for the misdeeds of their friends.
A super-secret conference hosted by the billionaire Koch brothers; a concert with $10,000 tickets featuring Mariah Carey; an uber-luxe weekend golf retreat in Deer Valley, Utah.
At 85, legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles still has "IT." This week to commemorate The Rolling Stones' fiftieth anniversary, he was on han...
If Hillary Clinton is to have the option of running for president in 2016, she needs a strong legacy as secretary of state, by far the most important post she's ever held.
Everyone is treated exactly the same. Everyone gets a one-year extension of the Bush tax cut on the first $250,000 of income. No "class warfare." Yet regressive Republicans want Americans to believe differently.
It seems that, generally speaking, presidential candidates believe that their debate performances can easily make or break their shot at the White House.
If the Obama campaign wants to win in November, it must strike fear in the electorate about what would happen if Mitt Romney were elected.
Bryan Fischer is most famous for his gay-bashing diatribes. But in a recent attack on Democrats, he also took on heterosexual oral sex (which he cryptically refers to as "the kind of activity that President Clinton practiced in the Oval Office").