Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in a CNN interview Thursday, accused U.S. leaders of inciting the war in Georgia to influence the U.S. election. Click here to view the CNN interview. BBC News tries to make sense of the conflict as well and doesn’t dismiss the charge at all.

As it turns out, if one is an evangelical pastor and doesn’t say really offensive words such as “Hitler was a hunter with a certain mission”, he or she is free to endorse John McCain without fear of any potential future public disassociation and criticism, which for a guy with thousands of church members [...]

Alex Castellanos, a republican consultant, says that it’s not a problem of sexism in the democratic presidential campaign that we’re dealing with, it’s a problem of Hillary Clinton. “Some women, by the way, are named that and it’s accurate… let’s face it, she can be a very abrasive, aggressive, irritating person”, he says.
Republicans must feel [...]

CNN and other media outlets must have realized that at this current rate, surprisingly set by the Bush administration itself (known for making irreparable mistakes affecting friends, enemies and everyone in between), the US presidential election may practically end much sooner than expected. Hence, naturally, the media come to the rescue and try to make [...]

Lou Dobbs seeks some answers from a very determined Republican who seems to represent all the “finest” qualities of the Republican Party — defending big business, defending credit card companies and defending the free market (because by doing so, one can always explain oneself by saying that “it’s all the market’s fault”, can one not?) [...]

The CNN reporters argue that the substantial white vote for Obama and almost non-existent African-American support for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina appears to be the key to Obama’s success in that state. Is the win in NC going to convince the remaining undecided Superdelegates to make their preferences known? That remains to be seen.

Rep. Janice Schakowsky explains to James Carville and Wolf Blitzer why the Karl Rove tactics are counterproductive and shouldn’t be used by the Clinton campaign. “Bringing up Osama Bin Laden and Pearl Harbor, and just playing the fear card… how dare she really bring up Osama Bin Laden and all of the emotional fear buttons”, [...]

Glenn Beck reports on the revolutionary cars that will be “mass produced” starting as early as next year by Indian company Tata Motors. We reported this story earlier and it’s really encouraging to know that a guy like Glenn Beck has the guts to make public what oil lobbyists and the Bush administration doesn’t want [...]

In the movie “The Island” people are told, “You’re special. You have a very special purpose in life. You’ve been chosen.” In the movie “The Truman Show” people are told, “Another glorious morning in Seahaven, folks.” When Truman says, “I’m thinking of getting out, Marlon. Outta my job, outta Seahaven, off this island…out!”, Marlon responds, [...]

Jack Cafferty reports that the number of people who need the US Food Stamp federal assistance is dramatically increasing, while the government, on the other hand, is busy bailing out the Wall Street financial institutions using the tax payers’ money counted in the tens of billions.

“Senator McCain… has voted for the largest deficits in the nation’s history, he has voted for the largest earmarks from President Bush, blank check earmarks… and we can’t find now where it is”, says Patrick Leahy, criticizing McCain for his cavalier use of taxpayers’ money to support Bush’s foreign spending, totally neglecting domestic needs.

Lou Dobbs goes after Pentagon and Congress for awarding the recent air refueling tanker contract to European Airbus. This deal may cost tens of thousands of US jobs so Lou Dobbs’ response to this ridiculous decision to snub domestic Boeing was just a matter of time. “If this contract goes ahead… this is the death [...]

The 3AM ad has produced not exactly the kind of effect the Clinton camp expected. Actually, this ad may backfire and completely trivialize her foreign policy stance — the fact that the girl sleeping in the ad is an outspoken Obama supporter certainly isn’t helpful. The nation-wide response to the ad also demonstrates that the [...]

The sooner this Democrat from Florida learns the difference between lobbycracy and democracy, the better. If Howard Dean is to be the referee, the first thing he could do is to explain to the people who still struggle to understand the party rules the very definition of the word rule. He can also remind people [...]

The CNN panel analyzes Clinton’s latest strategy of questioning Obama’s experience by painting him as a blatant speech-giving fraud. The people who have voted for Obama (in other words, the people who have voted against Hillary and outnumbered her supporters often by huge margins) in the last 11 primaries and caucuses must be finding this [...]