Co-opting the Nomination

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder is reporting something that, in a sane world, would just be down-right humorous. Unfortunately for us the modern political reality is rarely ever sane. A Clinton insider who served as ex campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle’s executive assistant for several years has...

What Dream Team?

I never understood the rationale of calling a joint ticket between Obama and Clinton a “Dream Ticket”, or referring to the pair as a “Dream Team.”  This might be because I remembered the summer of 1992. Ah, Barcelona.  The rippling azure shores, the golden sands, the ancient...