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For political journalists, there's nothing crueler than two national political conventions, two weeks in a row: Endless hours of note-taking; long, boring speeches by countless politicians; cheap hotels, lousy food and not enough sleep.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urges Russia to find his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's emails during a news conference on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, at Trump National Doral. The easiest job in politics belongs to the people who are producing Hillary Clinton's attack ads against Donald Trump.
Democratic Party convention: There's been a lot of chatter about how, if I cast my ballot for the Libertarians or the Greens or anybody but Hillary Clinton, it will be all my fault when Donald Trump gets elected. If Trump wins, it will be because the Democrats rigged the process to nominate someone who is loathed by great swatches of Americans.
Hillary Clinton was born an adult. Her mother told me so. Dorothy Rodham sent her 4-year-old daughter out to punch the neighborhood bully - another girl - in the nose.
Just eight years ago, the Democratic Party took the historic risk of nominating a little-known African-American, Barack Obama, for president. He won that year, then overcame stumbles and an economic slump to be returned comfortably four years later.
There was a time in the recent past when America did much to make it easier for people to vote. Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to undo the vestiges and practices of voter suppression based on race and ethnicity.
Yes, now that the Democratic convention is over and the nomination is official, we are confronting the possibility of not only the first woman president but also the first ex-president first spouse. A few months ago, this seemed incredibly exciting to Democrats.
To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that would have boiled from the likes of Newt Gingrich, that Metternich of many green rooms, if Hillary Clinton had offhandedly undermined the collective security architecture of U.S. foreign policy since NATO was created in 1949. Vladimir Putin's regime is saturating Europe with anti-Americanism, buying print and broadcast media, pliable journalists and other opinion leaders, and funding fringe political parties, think tanks and cultural institutions.
Joe Biden, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama testified to her greatness and goodness and readiness to be president. And all saw in the Republican Convention in Cleveland a festival of darkness and dystopia.
Montrice Bolden, 41, suffered broken facial bones and a concussion following his June 27 arrest on multiple charges outside an East 12th Street tavern. Was the arrest by Erie police officers proper, a violation of Bolden's rights, or a crime? Was it evidence of chronic police misconduct, as charged by some in Erie's black community? The answers have the potential to tear Erie in two.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hi, folks. Joe Biden here and I'm sitting with Tim Lewis, a retired federal judge who was nominated to the bench by a Republican President and confirmed by a Democratic Senate - within four weeks of a presidential election.
"Climate change is real," they say. So what? Gravity and sunrise are also real. That doesn't mean we cause them or we would be better off without them.
For many decades, Russian intelligence agencies have used what they call “active measures” to destabilize their rivals. Now they seem to be turning those tools on the U.S. political system, though in the process they appear to have violated Rule No.
Basically, he's abandoned the great patriotic themes that used to fire up the GOP and he's allowed the Democrats to seize that ground. If you visited the two conventions this year you would have come away thinking that the Democrats are the more patriotic of the two parties - and the more culturally conservative.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., implausibly - and contradictorily - insists that he agrees more than he disagrees with Donald Trump, and besides can stop the long list of nutty stuff Trump wants to do. In fact, the two differ on entitlement reform, trade, immigration, Russia, NATO and much more.
When asked by a reporter about whether he influenced Russia's hacking of Democratic National Committee emails, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump exclaimed: "I wish I had that power." In recent days, Trump has encouraged Russia to spy on America .