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08/27/2008

Mark Davis: Tonight, tonight at the DNC
I'm guessing Bill Clinton will talk about Bill Clinton. He clearly feels he has not been shown sufficient deference by the upstart Obama supporters. Throw in the bitterness of his wife's defeat, and it may be hard for the former president to stay on the message a unity-hungry convention craves.

08/24/2008

Mark Davis: Convention should bring end to Obama-mania
In Denver, the sun sets over the Rocky Mountains. That sun will shine brightly for the Democratic nominee this week as he enjoys his last few days of unfettered adulation. But by Friday, as attention turns to the Republican convention, the sun may also set on the eight months of Obama-mania.

08/20/2008

Mark Davis: Chávez name doesn't meet Dallas' bar
As Latino activists scramble to find something else – anything – to rename in his memory, they are running headlong into an unavoidable obstacle. The fact is that César Chávez in no way meets the standard for earning a major existing Dallas street name.

08/13/2008

Mark Davis: Clinton declined, but McCain won't
This is a torturous month of what-ifs for Hillary Clinton and her still substantial number of followers.

08/06/2008

Mark Davis: Hot or not, it's always Cowboys season
The rest of America is slowly awakening to the rhythms of football season. But here in Cowboy Country, we are just marking the next milepost in a passion that never really subsides.

07/30/2008

Mark Davis: Should a candidate admit error?
As Barack Obama catches all manner of grief for failing to admit he was wrong about the surge in Iraq, it seems like a good time to examine the practice of admitting error in politics.

07/27/2008

Mark Davis: Gore's 'final decade' of extremism
I'm sure that Al Gore felt he was channeling JFK as he issued his challenge to America to generate electricity without a speck of fossil fuel within 10 years.

07/23/2008

Mark Davis: Found overseas, Obama's historical dyslexia
The first thing Barack Obama should do upon returning to America next week is thank John McCain and President Bush for making his trip possible.

07/16/2008

Mark Davis: Potential running mates for Obama
Before we begin to rank the best choices Barack Obama could make for a running mate, let's dispense with three names on the buzz list that stand a zero chance of being chosen.

07/09/2008

Mark Davis: Winnowing McCain's list to one
Any list of potential running mates for a presidential candidate is sure to be colored by the compiler's personal politics and preferences.

07/02/2008

Bush can take pride in scorn
There was a familiar quip Hillary Clinton used on campaign stops this year. It usually involved some snide reference to how America's image supposedly has been damaged during the Bush years, punctuated by a line that always drew hoots of approval from audiences that shared her loathing of the president: