This whole election season must be a situation comedy to the gods of politics. I’m a black man running for President against a white woman in the Mississippi primary and the race is too close to call. In Pennsylvania, I’m the hope for the future in a state with no hope and little future, running … Read More »

Politics is a strange dance,  a combination and often simultaneous  tiptoeing through tulips and land mines by political animals forced by circumstance to dance together. So it is in this epic and ongoing battle between the Clintstone Machine, fronted by determined, even desperate yet experienced two-steppers, Bill and Hillary, and the spotlight on the audacity … Read More »

Sometimes I need to stop and think about what has happened and why and what it means. In Ohio and Texas, I was behind in the polls by about 20 points just a month ago and wiped that out in a narrow loss as my campaign picked up momentum. Suddenly, the momentum  for this election … Read More »

John McCain hasn’t learned much about the new age of politics as defined by me and my supporters. In just the past few months I’ve received personal apologies from three United States senators, a former senator, CNN, MSNBC, and more Clinton and McCain supporters than I can count. Why?  It’s simple. They haven’t learned that … Read More »

Money came up twice during the debate tonight. One question aimed at me and the other at Hillary. Both of us dodged a bullet tonight. We’ll live to fight another day. The silver bullet with my name on it is public financing of presidential campaigns. Back when I wasn’t raising money, I was all for … Read More »

If shoplifting is a crime, then Hillary Clinton is a kleptomaniac. No, wait. She’s a two-faced kleptomaniac with delusions of political grandeur. Looking back on tonight’s debate, I was way too easy on Hillary. She accused me of stealing words and making them my own. I felt like saying, “Hillary, get over it already. This … Read More »