The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
What do you get if you cross an influence-peddler with a war profiteer? According to Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise, you get John McCain's senior foreign...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008 | Politics
Lost amid the intellectual incoherence and straddling in Barack Obama’s op-ed on Iraq have been his bold plans for Afghanistan: As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I spoke with two of the smartest men in the business, Halperin and Todd, about where the candidates stand and the challenges they face in the coming months.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
With “WORST. WEEK. EVER?” on screen above the promise of “NO BIAS, NO BULL,” Friday's CNN Election Center show devoted a story to John McCain's bad week, but afterward, Mark Halperin, the former ABC News political director now with Time magazine, declared that McCain's challenge are less his supposed gaffes than “his problem is stopping the press and the Democrats from making this what the election...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Here I think is an example of news judgment within the DC bell jar. As I noted below, the 'news' today, as in things that have happened today and are newsworthy, is the fact that John McCain has dropped his...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
During the roundtable discussion on Sunday's This Week on ABC, when host George Stephanopoulos asked why Barack Obama had not talked about the economy more in his campaign ads, ABC political analyst Mark Halperin argued that taxing the wealthy should be a strong issue for Democrats this year, although he conceded it failed when tried by Al Gore and John Kerry. Without making any mention of the case...
The RBC (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
A few months ago, Paul Krugman described as "Clinton Rules" the press' tendency to use any statement from Hillary Clinton, no matter how innocuous, as an excuse to generate a fake scandal. Welcome to the new world of McCain Rules: any criticism of McCain, now matter how straightforward, is condemned as Swift-Boating or character attacks. Yesterday on Face the Nation, Wes Clark stated the obvious: John...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Mark Halperin Time Obama and his campaign, in contrast to other Democratic presidential nominees: 1. Have as their default position to respond rapidly to the opposition’s errors. 2. Have no trouble reaching internal consensus about how to respond. 3. Have no reluctance to deviate from their planned message of the day to let the attack BECOME the message of the day (while still executing the planned...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Who told Mark Halperin it's Veep Week at TNR?! OK, so Halperin might have been writing about vice presidential selections anyway. Whatever. Today over at Time's The Page , he weighs in on the most underrated--and overrated--criteria for picking a candidate. Haplerin's underrated qualities tend to be those that reflect on ability to perform successfully both as a political surrogate (i.e., "someone...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
The New York Times Op-Ed page called in a number of political coroners to perform their own autopsies on Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Each has a point to make. Time's Mark Halperin and Politico's John Harris point to Clinton's...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Mark Halperin of Time has a nice list of issues that John McCain is likely ignoring in this race for the PResidency. Each issue he mentions is devastating to the McCain camp. I'm thinking they won't listen to advice at all. These folks don't know the American people.
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's Mark Halperin's top of the page headline at 'The Page'. Rush devoting show to attacks on Obama's overseas trip. That's the top news of the day ... The text at the bottom reads "El Rushbo uses his Friday show...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008 | Politics
Robert Novak : "Sources close to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip. The name of McCain's running mate has not been disclosed, but Mitt Romney has led the speculation recently."
Blue Girl, Red State (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Mark Halperin pulls back the mask on the Republican Party and reveals that the way they wage the war on terror is tied to elections and consolidating power, not protecting the American people. While using Time magazine to run down a lazy man's list of ideas as to how John McCain can win in November (is this more of that awful, biased covered McCain was whining about'), Halperin and his editor should...
