Lenny Skutnik’s Convention
Over the last several convention cycles, we have seen more and more everyday heroes and victims take the place of politicians on the center stage of national politics.
Fall 2024
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Bill and Hillary: Biography as History
What Hillary needed—and got—last night was a biography reboot. If Bill Clinton’s valentine to his wife was characteristically a bit windy, it deftly painted a picture of her as a lifelong progressive who gets things done.
Spinning With Obama
We should not to take refuge in the comforting fallacy that Obama’s failings have been nothing more than the result of bad spin.
Accentuating the Negative
Last September, when the presidential race was close, Barack Obama tried to quell a flap in the news media over what he had intended as a routine jibe. “You can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama had said of the …
The Day After: Nothing’s the Matter With Kansas
Day After: D. Greenberg – No Problems in Kansas
Convention Diary: Mile High Stadium, Obama’s Second Speech
DNC Diary: Mile High Speeches
Convention Diary: Boilerplate Speechwriting, The Tsuris over Unity
DNC Diary: The Tsuris over Unity
Convention Diary: Raiding the Luxury Boxes, Corporate Invasion
DNC Diary: Raiding the Luxury Boxes
Convention Diary: Dems Go Green, Will Hillary Supporters Vote For Obama?
DNC Diary: The Hillary Question
Convention Diary: Bumping into Buchanan, Orwell in the Men’s Room
DNC Diary: Running into Pat Buchanan
Convention Diary: NYC Takeoff, Denver Arrival
DNC Diary: Arriving in Denver
Primary Obligations: Why the Democrats Should Fix the Nominating System 
Supporters of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for all their differences, have in the course of this emotional primary season come to view the Democratic Party’s nominating process as seriously flawed. To be sure, Obama’s enthusiasts would seem to …
Reading the Candidates
George W. Bush became president in part because people thought he was his father. This isn’t to say that people voted for the younger Bush because they expected he would continue the “kinder, gentler” conservatism the elder Bush had once …
