"Judgment day
Morning Brief : The nominee?
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Barack Obama carried North Carolina by 14 points and lost narrowly to Hillary Clinton in Indiana, by 23,000 votes. "If anything, Mrs. Clinton's hopes for overtaking Senator Barack Obama dwindled further on Tuesday night," writes Adam Nagourney for the New York Times. "We now know who the nominee is going to be," NBC's Tim Russert proclaimed (video), noting that Clinton had canceled most of her Wednesday public appearances.
Publicly, she vowed to fight on, saying, "It's full speed on to the White House." But it would appear that she didn't pick up enough votes or delegates to remain viable, and her campaign is running out of money.
Morning Brief: Judgment day
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Democrat Obama 'outraged' by former pastor
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, trying to quell a political firestorm that has roiled his presidential campaign, strongly denounced his former pastor on Tuesday and called his racially chargedWhy Aren’t Clinton and Obama Raising Constitutional Issues?
By Patricia Lee Sharpe
John Yoo, the Benedict Arnold of our constitutional system, is in the news again. His memos, those secret messages he so treacherously delivered to the Bush administration, are gradually coming to light. One of the latest to surface (so far as I know) held that the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to “domestic military operations” against terrorists. Pressed to the wall, the slippery new Attorney General conceded, very reluctantly, that the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans against unreasonable search and seizure, is indeed still in effect “across the board.”
The New U.S. - Russia Relationship?
I was recently asked what happened to the "realist" agenda for the U.S.-Russia relationship. I think that Alexey Pushkov's comments last week are quite apropos: the core fundamentals--anti-terrorism, promoting stability in the international system, stemming nuclear proliferation, and so on--were never really operationalized with clear criteria and where both sides took the "in principle" and moved to "what we do" (e.g., from Moscow's statement that, "in principle", Russia does not want Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, to what Moscow actually thinks is the problem and what it is prepared to do about it).US: New online tools for covering the election
At the NewsTools 2008 conference last week, the Sunlight Foundation debuted some new tools out of their Sunlight Labs that stand to help any journalist covering American national politics. From The Telegraph, a look at the 50 most influential US political pundits.
