I guess I owe a 24 years-belated apology to Walter Mondale. As it transpires, it wasn’t all his fault he got blown out by Ronald Reagan in 1984. Part of the problem was his boneheaded, run off at the mouth vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. It only took 48 hours and multiple, abrasive appearances on […]
Never mind about doing the time, just don’t do the crime. Eliot Spitzer was my kind of politician (past tense intentional). He went after corporate criminals, the criminal class everyone else ignores, he vowed to clean up corrupt government. I would have voted for him for president. That was then. Now his career is over, […]
We wake this morning in a new world. The news this morning is that a number of Hillary Clinton’s pledged superdelegates are switching their allegiance to Barack Obama. The group, led by civil-rights veteran and Georgia Congressman John Lewis, say they are reacting to the popular primary votes in their state, but they are also […]
I have a hard time setting aside my skepticism when it comes to politics, but when this landed in my inbox yesterday, I thought, “Maybe I’ll finally have the chance to vote for something…
What Might Have Been
Years ago, when the Earth was young, a talk show host in Ohio named Phil Donahue managed to get famous consumer advocate Ralph Nader to appear on his show. Mr. Nader liked the young man’s style of interview and audience participation and told Mr. Donahue he would return to the show if invited. Over the […]