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In Focus: The Hillary Implosion
After a lousy weekend for Team Hillary, the media is spinning a new election narrative: Obama will probably win the Democratic nomination. Michael Weiss has a round-up of opinions on why the former front-runner's success is no longer a foregone conclusion.
In Focus: The Sickly Deification of Obama
Barack Obama may be someone worth voting for, but his supporters seem to think he's more than that -- much more. What is it about the Democratic candidate that has everyone "ascribing superhuman characteristics to him, as though he were Savonarola awaiting the flame?" asks Michael Weiss.
In Focus: Endorsements Don’t Matter
No, (West) Virginia, political endorsements are not effective, argues Michael Weiss, who notices how badly the big-name kingmakers failed to deliver for their preferred candidates on Super Tuesday.
In Focus: McCain the Gestalt Candidate
John McCain is loathed by conservatives, but he's still leading Mitt Romney by double-digits and winning major Republican endorsements. Michael Weiss argues that McCain's ascendancy owes to his Obama-like appeal: his whole is greater than the sum of his parts.
In Focus: Microsoft to Eat Yahoo
Microsoft's strong $44.6 billion come-on to Yahoo has got the techie and business quarters of cyberspace running high fevers, writes Michael Weiss, who actually felt a little guilty using Google to report this feature.
Midday: The Giuliani and Edwards Implosions
So what was it, exactly, that made the Republican front-runner barely an afterthought in six states? Michael Weiss wonders if Rudy's real appeal never really left the island of Manhattan. As for John Edwards, he never had a prayer.
Midday: Sham-alot
The double dose of Kennedy endorsements should not be so eagerly taken up by Barack Obama, argues Michael Weiss, who says that one insufferable political family is now competing against another.
Midday: The Grey Lady’s Kiss of Death
Readers come to expect self-importance in campaign endorsements from the New York Times. Now that the paper has backed Clinton and McCain, Michael Weiss asks if this will help or hurt two candidates who are still tough sells in the red states?
Midday: Everybody Hates Bill Clinton
How quickly the favorite ex-president became a mangy and uxorious attack animal, berating journalists, slandering Barack Obama, and patronizing blacks. In the first of a new daily Midday news roundup, Michael Weiss charts the pandemic disillusionment with Bill Clinton -- especially on the liberal-left.
Identity Politics: Not What Dr. King Was About
On MLK Day 2008, Michael Weiss wonders what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of today's "sorry national burlesque in which ovaries and melanin are all but exit poll determinants?"
Ron Paul’s Blithe Reaction to ‘Newslettergate’
Ron Paul's shrugging off the racist content of newsletters bearing his name makes it clearer than ever that he is unfit to be president, writes Michael Weiss. "Quite apart from the salacity of the old newsletters, Paul's unaccommodating response to them has shown him to be a pathological enemy of moral judgment and good sense."
Old Blue Eyes: TIME Sucks Up to Putin
Time got it wrong in its article proclaiming Vladimir Putin "Person of the Year," contends Michael Weiss. The article extolling his importance resorted to cliches about Russia's "stability" and ignored the fact that much of the nation's recent success has nothing to do with him.
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