No one was much surprised when John Edwards fessed up and said he was the father of Rielle Hunter’s daughter – but nothing involving John Edwards ever seems to run along the straight and narrow path and sure enough there was an odd line in Edwards’ confession that twisted contrition into a knot. Here’s…
Read MoreI don’t know Ruffin Poole well, but he never struck me as a fellow who posed a physical danger to the populace. So why did the feds force him to make a well-photographed “perp walk” in cuffs? I put that question to a Democratic lawyer friend of mine who has done considerable work…
Read More“The jobs governor.” “Setting government straight.” “Career and college – ready, set, go.” “Safe communities.” You may as well get familiar with all these phrases. You’ll be hearing them from Governor Perdue – presumably for a good while. Team Perdue has carved out those words as her roadmap to political…
Read MorePresident Obama showed anew Wednesday night why he got elected – and why he remains the dominant political talent in America today. His speech was masterful. His tone was perfect. And he smilingly skewered a range of targets – Republicans, Democrats, Supreme Court, big banks, you name it. But his positioning was even…
Read MoreI don’t recall hardly ever seeing eye to eye with State Representative Mickey Michaux but the other day he hit the nail on the head. Governor Perdue’s favorite Cabinet Secretary Lanier ‘The Artful Dodger’ Cansler traipsed over to the legislature for a meeting and after a fair amount of hemming and hawing admitted he…
Read MoreOnce you get past the dishing about Sarah Palin, John Edwards, et al in the book Game Change, you learn a few things. Like about President Obama. That he’s like a basketball player who wants the ball when the game is on line. That he has supreme confidence he can rise to…
Read MoreComing out of a meeting over in the state legislature Senate Kingpin Marc Basnight ran head on into a gaggle of reporters and right off someone asked if it wasn’t a bit underhanded for Basnight to appropriate $25 million for a new fishing pier at Nags Head and then have his own construction company build…
Read MoreCongressman Brad Miller is never the happiest of warriors. But this year could raise his angst to new levels. Miller worries in the Greensboro News & Record that – thanks to the Supreme Court’s corporate-campaign ruling – he might be the target of bank-sponsored attacks. “I’ve made a real nuisance of myself to…
Read MoreSometimes it seems like one of a President’s less enviable jobs is to be a kind of national whipping boy, an outlet for our pent up frustrations and afflictions. And even if pummeling, say, Barack Obama or George Bush won’t put people back to work it sure is satisfying to have someone to blame. …
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