During an emotional moment at the Dallas Women's Museum, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison praised Hillary Rodham Clinton for "keeping a confident face" during the 2008 presidential campaign when "you were getting so many disappointments." "You were completely devastated and...
There are hundreds of women gathered at the Dallas Women's Museum, where in a couple of hours Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison will be speaking. They are here from various backgrounds. I've run...
President Barack Obama is in the midst of his virtual townhall meeting, taking questions submitted online through the White House website. The public got to vote on which questions should be asked and he noted that one of the more...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who held up Hillary Rodham Clinton's confirmation as Secretary of State on Tuesday, was among the 94 senators voting to approve her appointment today. The lone dissents were David Vitter of Louisiana and Jim DeMint of...
John McCain is pulling out all the stops on his final campaign push, including an appearance on Saturday Night Live. He'll be hard-pressed to pull the numbers that Sarah Palin did in her appearance a few weeks back. But...
Bill Clinton was with Obama two evenings ago in Florida, and Hillary is working for her old rival in the swing state of Ohio. She was quick with her Halloween metaphors, saying what is scary is the thought of a...
Rob Jesmer, manager of Sen. John Cornyn's re-election campaign, just sent GOP donors an early Halloween scare: Video of Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean and Cornyn's opponent, Rick Noriega, describing their high hopes for Texas on Nov. 4....
Sarah Palin brought National Organization for Women leaders and even a former editor of Ms Magazine to underscore her cred in the feminist community and to challenge the idea that Barack Obama has won over women voters. "Our opponents...
At Amway Arena, there are many tens of thousands of Obama fans, three U.S. senators -- and a huge American flag blocking the name "Amway." Sort of John Ashcroft-like. Did the Amway corporation -- whose founder was a major...
Here's a link to the story, from cnn.com. Unclear whether Tina Fey's 'Sarah' will also appear, as Amy Poehler did with the real Hillary, back in March. Photo: NBC...
Hillary Clinton has a new response to the Republicans' rallying cries on energy -- Drill, baby, drill! On the campaign trail today in Philadelphia, her rejoinder was: "Jobs, baby, jobs." We'll see if that catches on ......
Frank Gamboa knows John McCain better than most. He was his roommate at the Naval Academy from 1954-1958. "There were no secrets," he said of the experience. "I got to know everything about him." What Mr. Gamboa says he...
Made with pure (Mc)CANE sugar. But don't think Jones Cola is a partisan product. They're still selling Obama "Yes We Can Cola" and "Capitol Hillary Cola." They've even got "Ron Paul Revolution Cola." Their marketing ploy? A bottle purchased is...
In the early 1960s, Stokley Carmichael and H. Rap Brown took over the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, effectively ousting a young John Lewis as president. In the eyes of Carmichael and Brown, Lewis was slow to embrace the Black...
It had to be embarrassing last spring when Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee of Houston got booed at a Harris County senatorial district convention. It was presumably for her support of Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama, but some observers say...
Everyone else was there: vice presidential nominee Joe Biden and his family, President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama. So it was hardly a surprise when Barack Obama appeared on the stage at the Pepsi Center at...
It was almost like old times at Wednesday night's Democratic Convention session as delegates gave a thunderous welcome to former President Bill Clinton as he came on stage to the strains of his old signature campaign song, "Don't Stop (Thinking...
The program said it would take one hour for the Democrats to conduct their presidential nominating roll-call, and that's what it took: one hour. It said the roll call would start at 3:47 pm. Denver time, and it began within...
The bitter and historic Democratic presidential race came to a quiet end on Wednesday afternoon as delegates ratified the verdict of primary and caucus voters and made Barack Obama the first African-American to carry the standard of a major American...
I wish I had my 10-year-old's stopwatch to clock the milliseconds between the moment when Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked if there were any objections to Hillary Clinton's motion to nominate Barack Obama by acclamation, and when she brought the gavel...
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