Well, sort of. Mike2008.com links back to Michael Bloomberg’s homepage MikeBloomberg.com . Also, he’s talking like a candidate again, this time saying that America has been “immoblized” by the war. From ABC News: Despite the mayor’s assertions that he’s not running for president, Bloomberg’s remarks on the state of the nation and its standing overseas [...]

Following up on the better late than never theme: Democratic Front-Runners Tangle After Monday Night’s Debate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said today that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, made comments that were “irresponsible and frankly naive” when he said in Monday night’s debate that he would meet with leaders [...]

Biden was best, again.Richardson exceeded low expectations. Obama fell short of high expectations. Edwards fell short of low expectations. Kucinich met zero expectations. That other guy has white hair. Mike Gravel’s shtick is not as entertaining as YouTube videos. YouTube questions were better and more entertaining than Britt Hume. YouTube questions were not that entertaining. It is Hillary Clinton’s nomination to lose. She didn’t lose it Monday night. Chuck Hagel is the GOP’s only hope. The GOP has no hope. None.

Congress is rushing headlong into its confrontation with the executive branch. The House Judiciary Committee has voted to issue contempt citations for Joshua Bolton and Harriet Miers. If the full House approves the citations — and it could be weeks before that occurs, thanks to Congress’ upcoming summer break — they will be referred to [...]

The latest issue of Scientific American has a pretty informative article on the current state of climate science: why we know the earth is warming, and why we know human activity is partly to blame. The authors are William Collins of UC-Berkeley; Robert Colman, an Australian; James Haywood of the UK’s Met Office; Martin Manning [...]

There’s an interesting meme bouncing around right now: Bush is so unpopular that he can do whatever he wants and not suffer any further political costs. My question to you is: should political costs be what he’s considering or the will of the American electorate who put him in office? From Wash Post: The latest [...]

Captain Ed puts it pretty succinctly with this blog title: Doesn’t This Man Need To Spend More Time With His Family? Alberto Gonzales once again threw gasoline on a fire in his testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Hill reports that Gonzales once again spent the hearing zig-zagging and backtracking, stoking calls this [...]

Hey all, Just wanted to give you all heads up. We’re going to be moving the site to Media Temple sometime over the weekend, so we’ll probably have some downtime. Also, the site may not come back up with the look and feel you see now because of some formatting issues, but we’re working on [...]

I loved this debate. There’s just something about non-camera ready, awkward Americans getting to ask their leaders real questions that aren’t necessarily rehearsed. Here are some of my favorites… Who would you pick as a Republican running mate? Is it OK to cite religion as a reason to deny gay rights? Would you agree to [...]

2008Central.net’s Co-Managing Editors and presidential election gurus, John Whitehouse and Angelo Carusone, will be liveblogging tonight’s CNN /YouTube Democratic Debate. The debate begins at 7PM eastern time and can be accessed on CNN or CNN.com Gurus JW and AsC are former national and international debaters. Accordingly, their insight and analysis on debate performances has thus [...]

My presidential ambitions took a hit this weekend. The New York Times ran a story about religion and morality in politics, with Mitt Romney as the hook. But the chart that ran with it — reproduced above — is worth a long, close look (click on it to get a larger version). Not believing in [...]

Editor & Publisher previews a New York Times Magazine article that talks about Ron Paul, his supporters and the inherent trouble of having passionate support from both sides of the aisle. The next day E&P gets a bunch of Ron Paul supporters emailing them about how unbalanced the story was. Raw Story also follows up [...]

Political texter? What does that mean? Well… I accpeted a freelance gig as the political reporter for a mobile news service that sends bite size news blurbs to your phone. It’s called 80108.com and I’ll be covering the Top Stories on the Campaign08 trail. In fact, if you go over there right now, you can [...]

Just posted news about Barack having more contributors than the top three Republican candidates combined. That’s meant a lot of money for Obama, but the bigger story is that it also means an army of people who will spend their time and energy trying to get him elected. From the LA Times: In a campaign [...]

But it’s not just about money. The Dems wouldn’t be able to raise so much if they didn’t have a ton more people contributing than the Repubs. And to that point… One Democratic presidential candidate, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, says he has a quarter-million contributors, more than the top three Republican candidates combined — though [...]

Looks like he’d take more from the Repubs than the Dems. At least in Florida. From Quinnipiac: If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg runs for President as an independent candidate, it helps Democrats in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. In a two- way race, former New York City Mayor Rudolph [...]

You’re kidding me right? Not only do you pose for a picture with this gal, but you actually hold the sign up for her. Good times.

More opinions are starting to roll in over President Bush’s assertion that Congress cannot pursue contempt charges in cases where the president invokes executive privilege. Plus I’ve had 24 hours to think it over. And it appears I overreacted a little bit yesterday. It’s deeply offensive on the face of it for the administration to [...]

Certainly there is a fairness problem with broadcasters, but if we look at this problem objectively, we see it cannot be solved by dealing with the broadcasters alone. The bigger problem resides in the listeners, watchers, and readers…

The always compelling Dave Schuler is trying – again – to start a conversation on the future of Iraq. I think Dave would agree he’s having limited success. Winds of Change is trying it, too, resulting in a lot of calls in comments to “nuke ‘em all,” and some more reasonable suggestions for “what we [...]