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A Year's Worth of Political Conversation
washingtonpost.com's PostTalk program is marking its first anniversary of interviews with presidential candidates, congressional leaders, governors, and other newsmakers. Chris Cillizza reviews year one: Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug-in to view our enhanced content. var thisObj = "flashobj041008X12v"; var so = new SWFObject("http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/player/wpniplayer_blog.swf", thisObj, "454", "305", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addParam("allowScriptAccess",...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | April 11, 2008; 11:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
Looking Back on Kennedy's 'Houston Speech'
As Mitt Romney prepares to give a widely-anticipated speech about "Faith in America," here are clips of John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, on Sept. 12, 1960 at the Rice Hotel. "I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, nor Jewish. Where no...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | December 6, 2007; 09:00 AM ET | Comments (2)
Halloween Gets Political
A few "tricks" and "treats" for your Halloween 2007. First off, the AP recently asked voters which of the 2008 presidential candidates would make the scariest costume. Continuing her dominance in the polls, Hillary Clinton beat out every other Democratic and GOP contender, earning 37 percent of the vote. Rudy...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | October 31, 2007; 06:00 AM ET | Email a Comment
Life's A Toll Road: Drew Carey's Libertarian Debut
The ubiquitous Drew Carey, new king of game shows, has also started an online show for libertarian magazine Reason. Turns out that Carey is a libertarian himself, a political flavor that is getting more and more attention on the web (lots of libertarian blogs there) and in this election...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | October 17, 2007; 08:09 AM ET | Email a Comment
Jenna Bush's Secret Service Details Leaves The Keys In The Car
Jenna Bush continues her media tour this week to promote her new book, "Ana's Story," about a young girl living with HIV/AIDS. So far she's been on 20/20, the Today Show, Larry King Live. She's also done several newspaper interviews, and this morning stopped by CBS's The Early Show. As...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | October 4, 2007; 09:20 AM ET | Comments (2)
Kerry Responds to Taser Incident
Cable news is all over the story of the Andrew Meyer, the 21-year-old University of Florida student tasered by university police, after he refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry about the 2004 presidential election. Video (like the one below) show officers pulling Meyer away from a microphone after he...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | September 18, 2007; 12:58 PM ET | Comments (391)
Karl Rove's Shrink-Wrapped Goodbye Gift
The presidential campaign has provided just a smattering of news in recent days, which makes sense considering we're in the closing days of summer. But the folks at the White House provided us with a real gem today, in the form of Karl Rove's goodbye present. Colleagues shrink-wrapped his car,...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | August 29, 2007; 12:50 PM ET | Comments (14)
YouTube Impacting (Local) New Hampshire Politics
The "YouTubization" of American politics has gone local, and it's doing so in New Hampshire of all places. As if the residents of Manchester, N.H. didn't have enough politicking to worry about already, a city mayoral candidate has attacked his opponent with an online video. New Hampshire's primary day is...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | August 23, 2007; 03:20 PM ET | Comments (15)
Jon Stewart on Dick Cheney
With all the coverage of Dick Cheney this week, and his recent assertion that he's not a member of the executive branch, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has a thing or two to say about the vice president:...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | June 27, 2007; 09:26 AM ET | Comments (11)
20 Years Ago Today...
President Ronald Reagan at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin -- June 12, 1987. Sound Bite: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | June 12, 2007; 04:02 PM ET | Email a Comment
