Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, an all-out Hillary supporter, now supporting Obama in a state that will be key to McCain's fortunes a month from now, continues to be a loose cannon.

It was Rendell who previously put on the table the subject that for much of the primary and general...

Since Bill Clinton launched his Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005, the annual September meeting (just passed) has cast the former president as an international superstar. His CGI, labeled by one aide "a cause, not a conference," surpassed Davos as the place to be seen and his work on alleviating...

According to Michael Sneed in Tuesday's Chicago Sun-Times, mayoral brother William "Bill" Daley is "steamed" over a new John McCain ad that blasts Barack Obama by linking him to supposed Obama buddies, "convicted felon" Tony Rezko, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who carries "a legacy of federal and state investigations,"...

If anyone doubted something I've written repeatedly on this page--that Bill and Hillary Clinton prefer to see a McCain victory on November 4th, so that Hillary can run unencumbered in 2012--just get a load of Bill today with the ladies of "The View," and in other interviews,...

I check in with Marc Rubin and Simone DuBois from time to time and emailed them yesterday asking what they made of Sarah Palin, and, given her stands on issues, have they come around to voting for Obama.

Polls show that one-third of Hillary backers have not yet...

If the Obama campaign fretted that Hurricane Gustav cheated it out of George W. Bush footage - - which would have made great ads for Obama/Biden's charge that McCain is McSame or McBush -- four or eight more years of the same mess -- that very Bush has come to...

Hillary Clinton has a reason, finally, a really compelling reason to campaign her heart out for Barack Obama. If McCain wins Vice President Sarah Palin will run for president.

Think how how frustrated Hillary must be by the sudden surge for a mayor of an Alaskan town no one...

I emailed Simone DuBois after John McCain made his seeming (to me) boneheaded pick of Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his VP. DuBois, a Hillary diehard who takes her place in the 2008 campaign history because it was she who, earlier this summer, videotaped Hillary at a "Unity" [with...

It's been a bit less than two years since I interviewed George McGovern for my book, Clinton in Exile, on Bill Clinton's post presidency. McGovern and Clinton are good friends--in 1972 while a Yale law student, Clinton worked for McGovern organizing the state of Texas--although the friendship was frayed by...

While writing Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House on Bill Clinton's post presidency, I interviewed 167 people. None of them seemed as passionately committed--in love with, really--Hillary Clinton as Susie Tompkins Buell, the ultra-wealthy San Franciscan who cofounded Esprit with her ex-husband. She has since remarried...

Here is an email I just received from Simone DuBois, in Denver to protest the Democrats' nomination of Barack Obama. Simone is the Hillary diehard who videotaped her speaking at a private home in Los Altos Hills, California earlier this summer. The event was a You Tube hit that grabbed...

When Obama gave his speech last March in Philadelphia to counter the endless replaying of his then-pastor's rants -- the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. turning "God Bless America" into "God Damn America," blaming the US for the 9/11 attacks and its government for "inventing the HIV virus as a...

The following is from a long and interesting piece in Friday's Chicago Tribune --it starts on the front page under the headline, "Jackson eclipsed in the age of Obama," and jumps to a full page inside. Reporter David Greising, writes in a straightforward manner, as he should, about the...

My eye was caught by a story, "Local Clinton backers, McCain adviser meet," in Wednesday's Times-Tribune of Scranton Pennsylvania. It featured a file photo of Hillary's brother Tony Rodham, he of the scandal and shenanigans during his brother-in-law's terms in the White House.

I had blogged...

I have been addicted to "The Drudge Report" since at least January, 1998 when he seemed to lead the coverage of Bill Clinton's sordid tryst with Monica Lewinsky--probably before that, too; I can't remember when I didn't visit the sight multiple times a day to check what's new.

Increasingly, I've...

The timing could have been better for Salem State College, in Salem, Massachusetts, 21 miles outside Boston. Or, who knows? Maybe the timing couldn't be better.

The public university pays big bucks to big names for its 26-year-old lecture series. (Speakers have included former presidents --...

When John Edwards' confession hit the MSM on Friday it knocked off the front pages Hillary's campaign appearance for Obama that afternoon in suburban Las Vegas. The Edwards/Rielle Hunter "news" -- ignored by the MSM which, as one journalist put it, would touch it only with "tongs" -- had a...

A news story Saturday in the New York Daily News stuck pretty much to the headline, "Hillary Clinton Asks Not to be Nominated at Democratic National Convention." Wrong. Her supporters say, as they've been saying for months, "Not so fast," and claim that Hillary has asked no such thing....

I guess the new standard for candidates for national office is that they be "clean"--and clean seems to mean not that they have no scandal in their closets but that their closets are neat, and that their clothes and bodies are clean.

Here's CNN's John King reporting on...

Bill Clinton is in Africa working on his HIV/AIDS initiatives. Good for him. Still it's not like he can't be in touch with the Obama campaign to say when he'll hit the hustings for the presumed Democratic nominee. (See my earlier Huffington Post about how easy it was to reach...