By ANN McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service
A break from politics?
WASHINGTON -- We need time out from politics. It's just too exhausting these days.Somewhere between listening to supporters of Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton squabble over who is playing the race card and watching the humiliated Eliot Spitzer resign as New York governor, I realized I was in serious danger of not caring.
Clinton, Obama squabble; McCain waits
WASHINGTON -- So, why don't Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton just high-five each other, go after "Old Man McCain" together and run on a joint ticket to put Democrats back in charge at the White House?Ah, if only politics were that un-egomaniacal.
Awash in the peer-pressure primaries
WASHINGTON -- A lawyer enamored of Barack Obama for president says she temporarily has stopped going out for drinks Fridays after work because her friends, other women, keep berating her for not supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the first female president.
Brace yourself for a really nasty election
WASHINGTON -- Ah, what fools we were to hope that maybe, this time, it wouldn't get nasty.
It's an uphill fight for Hillary Clinton now
WASHINGTON -- Her nomination was supposed to be such a foregone conclusion that she didn't even mount substantial get-out-the-vote operations in key states, including Ohio and Texas. What happened to Hillary Rodham Clinton's cloak of inevitability?
The joke is on the pundits
WASHINGTON -- It's great when the voters turn their backs on conventional wisdom!We pundits said that almost certainly we'd all know the Republican and Democratic nominees on Feb. 5. Ha!We said John McCain was political dead meat. Ha!We said Barack Obama would quickly fall to Hillary Rodham Clinton's big money, big momentum and big organization. Ha!
Examining the failed Bush presidency
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is a forgotten man. Giving his last State of the Union speech, he was overshadowed by a tempest in a teapot. (Did Barack Obama snub Hillary Clinton or merely turn to talk with another senator?)We need a breather from the campaign, so we will focus on why history is likely to record George W. Bush's eight years in office as a failed presidency.
The presidential race is getting even scarier
WASHINGTON -- I don't know about you, but the closer we get to finding out who will be the GOP and Democratic presidential nominees, the edgier I become.As the mud flies, all the candidates seem to be shrinking in stature. Yesterday's glimmerings of statesmen are today's campaign flimflam artists.
Fed chairman warns Congress: do something
WASHINGTON -- Watching Ben Bernanke bash members of Congress over the head with woe-is-us news about the economy was a study in frustration.
