The Wright flap and the black candidate
May 8, 2008
Barack Obama\’s presidential candidacy is providing a crash course on race in America.
Raphael J. Sonenshein
The Jewish Vote: America’s role in the world and what’s best for Israel
April 11, 2008
What U.S. role in the world is best for Israel?
Is it to be loved, to be feared, or to be respected? The 2008 campaign provides a good lens for answering that question.
Will Jews give Obama a chance?
March 13, 2008
Obama needs to tell his story about the Jewish community and Israel before his opponents tell their version. If he waits to respond to Clinton\’s charges, it may already be too late. He needs to discuss his experiences in Chicago\’s Jewish community, talk about his personal connections to Israel and provide reassurance in his own words.
And now the ‘Jewish primary’ begins . . .
February 1, 2008
When California moved its presidential primary to Feb. 5, and other big states followed suit, the strategic role of Jewish voters in the nominating process was greatly enhanced.
The NIE, Iran, presidential politics and the Jews
December 14, 2007
The release last week of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran\’s nuclear ambitions stunned the nation\’s capital. After being buried for a year, the NIE has deflated the Bush administration\’s case on Iran by stating that Iran halted its program to develop a nuclear weapon in 2003.
Handicapping the 2008 Presidential Race
November 16, 2007
Brief descriptions of Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and their likely appeal amongst Jewish voters.
Henry Waxman: The Democrats’ Eliot Ness
October 12, 2007
In fact, Congressman Henry Waxman already did more oversight while in the minority than many Democrats have been able to accomplish with the majority. Back in 2005, David Corn wrote in the Nation magazine that Democrats considered Waxman to be their \”Eliot Ness,\” and that many members wished the rest of the party would adopt his approach.
Iran, Israel and the 2008 election
September 14, 2007
The Republican Party has a two-sided albatross around its neck, an unpopular president who is trying desperately to keep an unpopular war going past Election Day so that its disastrous ending can be on the next president\’s watch.
Bush’s ‘neocons’: far from the best and the brightest
July 13, 2007
Today\’s neocons are far from the best and the brightest. They are largely amateur armchair warriors given to cheap rhetoric and bombast. They toss around \”regime change\” as if governments will fall when they snap their fingers.
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