Scott McLellan, Former Press Secretary, Attacks Bush's White House

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence.

CNN - 'THE LEAGUE' Of First Time Voters

From our basic understanding, The League is a forum hosted by Rick Sanchez. The league is also a political news blog link. It addresses issues, and acquires opinions, and interviews everyday people of diferent creeds & denominations. A CNN News Forum on mostly pre-election issues.

Obama Takes 3 More Superdelegates

Senator Barack Obama had not, over the past few days, really capitalized on his accumulation of a majority of pledged delegates

Bush money train to hit the road, nary a sighting

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush will hit the campaign trail next week to rustle up some badly needed cash for Republican candidates — including presidential hopeful John McCain — but catching a glimpse of him in action will be fleeting.

Carl Icahn: Obama "Would Be A Terrible President"

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Barack Obama would be a ``terrible'' U.S. president whose election would bring higher interest rates and a loss of international confidence in the dollar.

Obama in Crosshairs — Wildly Offensive or Makes a Point?

A Georgia paper has hit the bullseye of controversy. This photo is the cover of the Roswell Beacon, teasing a piece about the rising activity level of white supremacist groups surrounding the possible nomination of Barack Obama.

Tennessee Senator Takes On His Own Party

The office of Tennessee's junior senator, a Republican, sides with Democrats against his state party's attack on Michelle Obama.

Obama Or McCain: Who's Really Underestimating Iran?

Before commencing his economic address in Chicago this morning, Sen. John McCain took a quick detour through Iran. Responding to remarks made in Oregon by Barack Obama on Sunday -- in which the likely Democratic nominee suggested that if Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan could talk to the titans of communism, perhaps the next president might want to talk to Tehran -- McCain once again thumped Obama's "inexperience and reckless judgment" for failing to accurately judge the threat posed by the Islamic Republic.

NBC has issued a statement responding to the Bush administration's accusations of "selective editing" in its coverage of the "appeasement" issue

STATEMENT FROM NBC NEWS: Richard Engel's interview with President Bush has been available, unedited, in its entirety, for the past day, on our website. Our reporting accurately reflects the interview. Just as the White House does not participate in the editorial process at the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or USA Today, NBC News, as part of a free press in a free society, makes its own editorial decisions.

Obama sidesteps question on Clinton as VP

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama sidestepped the Dream Team question on Tuesday when asked whether he would make rival Hillary Clinton his running mate if he beats her for the Democratic White House nomination. 

President Bush Gave Up Golf Out of Respect to Soldiers

Yesterday, President Bush sat down with Politico and Yahoo! to discuss his golf game, emailing habits, and the Iraq War. Here are some of the highlights from the interviewee-in-chief:

Obama overtakes lead in superdelegates for first time.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president..

"Hillary Democrats" Could Be Up For Grabs

WASHINGTON — With the racially tinged Democratic race drawing to an awkward close, Barack Obama and John McCain face the challenge of winning over "Hillary Democrats" _ the white, working-class voters who favored the former first lady over Obama's historic candidacy.

Obama gains ground, adding superdelegates and labor voices

Senator Barack Obama all but erased Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead among national convention superdelegates Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around him.

Remark by Clinton aide fuels talk of a smooth exit

Terry McAuliffe, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign manager, said Thursday that he expected the Democratic nomination to be decided by mid-June.

Edwards a.k.a. 'Ground-Hog' Still Won't Endorse

“Well, I think right now Barack Obama has the better chance, because it looks like he’s going to be the nominee,” Mr. Edwards said. “But I think what he brings to the table is the capacity, No. 1, to unite the Democratic Party. No. 2, to bring in new voters, to bring in people who haven’t been involved in the process over a long period of time, and to get people excited about this change.”

Obama gets big welcome, fresh support on Capitol tour

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Barack Obama got a front-runner's welcome back at the Capitol Thursday, pressing congressional "superdelegates" to support him in a visit that had the look and feel of a campaign victory lap..

Obama accuses McCain of 'losing his bearings'

NEW YORK (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican John McCain was "losing his bearings" for repeatedly suggesting the Islamic terrorist group Hamas preferred Obama for president.

Did Rush help Hillary in Indiana?

DALLAS - Has Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton improbably emerged as the favorite of the “Guns and God” crowd?

Top Democrats Tell Clinton The Race Is Over

DURHAM, N.C. — Dueling over gas prices, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama strained for every last vote on Monday, the eve of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries that are the biggest prizes left in their epic Democratic nomination fight.

Huffpollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For May 7

Polls have come to dominate the media's horse race coverage of political campaigns. Pundits and reporters constantly use them to tell us who's hot and who's not -- but skip over the fact that plummeting response rates and variables like undecided voters and margins of error and often render these polls useless as anything other than lightweight diversions on par with horoscopes and political betting lines. Our HuffPollstrology chart helps keep you up to date on the latest poll results, along with the latest horoscope predictions, and the latest online political betting lines - and will hopefully help the polling junkies in the media keep polls in the proper perspective.

Clinton: OPEC Can No Longer Be A Cartel

Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Obama takes on Clinton's "electability" argument

DURHAM, N.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took aim on Monday at his rival Hillary Clinton's argument that he is less electable than her given his recent series of troubles and because he has not been fully "vetted."