On Tuesday , I posted a column urging Barack Obama to emphasize John McCain's long history of support for Social Security privatization – a position that looks even more embarrassing today than a few weeks or months ago. For some time, McCain has been trying to revise his own history and pretend that he “never” supported privatization (or what he and other Republicans daintily refer to as “personal accounts”). Obama shouldn't let him get away with it.

Within a day following my post—by pure coincidence, needless to say—the Obama campaign aired an ad on the privatization theme in Michigan, as my former Observer colleague  read more »

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is referring to it as likely "the oddest news conference of the election season."

Yesterday Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee unveiled to a room full of local and national reporters his campaign's new ad attacking Mitt Romney, which Mr. Huckabee then noted he would not be airing in the spirit of, um, abstaining from attack ads.  read more »