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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 10
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For the McCain campaign, the fact that they've gone back to the Bill Ayers material, stuff flogged to death during the primary season, is a sign of utmost desperation, writes Guy Rundle from Nashville.
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Monday, 6 October 2008 8
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Today's crap that Sarah Palin has launched about Obama being a friend of terrorists is only the latest sign that the McCain/Palin camp is running low on material. By Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 3 October 2008 45
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So there I was on Dupont Circle in the John Hoban bar ... Guy Rundle takes in the VP debate.
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Thursday, 2 October 2008 8
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In the Senate at the moment, they're voting on the bailout bill which has been attached as an amendment to godknowswhat -- the Senate can't vote on a tax bill without the House passing it first, so this morale booster has been put through on the sly, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008 13
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Tuesday, America woke with a heavy political hangover, and took a look around the proverbial living-room. Boy, they thought. we really wrecked the joint, didn't we? Guy Rundle reports.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 25
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This is not an economic crisis, this is a political and cultural crisis of capitalism, and if you don't understand that, well, you're a financial journalist, writes Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 9
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As the deal went down, so did the Dow ... Guy Rundle watches in awe.
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Monday, 29 September 2008 0
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The times call for courage, but the candidates played it safe, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 29 September 2008 11
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That's the bailout done, sort of. Next highlight, Friday's VP debate. Even the neocons are tipping a car crash, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 26 September 2008 0
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Yes, I'm writing campaign ads again. So are half the journos on this. Guy Rundle watches as a big day unfolds.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 13
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It was another bizarre day, a situation military strategists describe as fluid, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 11
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With the first debate only days away, it suddenly became clear to everyone that America was lurching towards genuine crisis. Not problem, not dilemma, but crisis, writes Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 1
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Out of New York, along the edge of the Bronx, taking the long route to get a last glimpse at Yankee Stadium, the venerable home of New York baseball for more than eighty years, about to be demolished and replaced, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 22 September 2008 6
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If Obama can't get five points clear on all this, shoot your dog, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 9
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The economy crumbles and still Obama is getting no traction on the issue. And McCain, bloody McCain is, writes Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 10
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Mountains in the distance, bright sharp air, gleaming lakes to the west and to the east, God this town is a dump, writes Guy Rundle in Sarah Palin's home town of Wasilla, Alaska.
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Monday, 15 September 2008 3
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It was eight forty-five am, and the room was already full to bursting, with a dozen camera news crews at the back setting up, stealing each other's pitch. Guy Rundle files from Troopergate.
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Friday, 12 September 2008 8
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What is all this creepy stuff about service all of a sudden and collective national identity all of a sudden, wonders Guy Rundle?
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 13
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Alaska preserves the image of America as the land of free enterprise and individual effort, while quietly carrying on as a quasi-socialist fiefdom of socila dividends and big money patronage, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 2
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So here we have the Cassidy tapes, folks. An insight into how young Republicans live, love and leave their blackberries in cabs, writes Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008 29
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The Democrats are screwing it up. Totally. Utterly. Everything they do is wrong, writes Guy Rundle, still in Minneapolis.
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Monday, 8 September 2008 4
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Palin's candidacy is different and exciting to people on so many levels, that it has, at least for the moment, overwhelmed all other questions, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 5 September 2008 4
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And then at last, the star turn of the RNC. Guy Rundle watches John McCain.
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Thursday, 4 September 2008 21
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I wanted a metaphor and the good lord sent me Jessica the hooker. Guy Rundle is waiting for Sarah Palin.
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008 22
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'Dems had a hot house band, and the GOP has got ... smooth jazz. Kid you not. Smooth jazz. It is like something between the on-hold muzak in a dentist's office and the theme to a cancelled sitcom.' And that, writes Guy Rundle, kind of sums the whole thing up.
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Tuesday, 2 September 2008 31
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It was noon, and the major protest rally, ten thousand strong, was just starting to move from the park spread beneath the gold-tipped Capitol dome, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 1 September 2008 1
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The operation was as swift, and smooth as anything the Chinese managed to employ on the streets of Beijing, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 1 September 2008 10
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The choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate is an attempt to punch through, to change the terms of the the contest. It has got early results, writes Guy Rundle.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 0
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Ten minutes into Bill Clinton's nervously awaited speech to the convention, he finally cracked it to say those two little words necessary to seal up the breach below the Democratic waterline: "he's ready", reports Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 0
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The floor of the convention was full with people bopping to their various level of ability -- ie there were black people dancing, and white people shifting their bodies around like they were balancing a load of bricks on a trolley, writes Guy Rundle, on the ground at the DNC.
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Monday, 25 August 2008 2
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Good choice? It certainly balances the ticket, while making it less exciting, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 22 August 2008 3
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Everything about this is the Obama campaign at it worst -- meaningless symbolic tech wonkery (the text message thing), making it all about the process rather than the content, and ultimately giving John McCain another few days of policy-free days, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 18 August 2008 4
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It's Saturday night, and the church is full. Tonight, for the first time in the campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain are sharing the same stage, sort of, writes Guy Rundle in Savannah, Georgia.
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 7
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If we learned one thing from this week it's that Dubya doesn't care and the Presidential wannabes don't know what leadership means either, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 8 August 2008 0
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Never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to remove the as yet undigested remains of defeat from the sifted faeces of victory, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008 4
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These are a series of strange days indeed for the United States ... this has been one of them, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 4 August 2008 0
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There's only one thing to say about recent Democrat tactics: aaaaaarghhhh!!!! writres b>Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 1 August 2008 10
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Whatever happens in the race for the White House it's worthwhile remembering it's a competition for two seperate powers. And in the second fight, for Congress, the Republicans know they've got Buckley's, writes Guy Rundle.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 16
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Four weeks after he reorganised his team, and days after the worst campaign week in recent memory, John McCain seems to be landing a few small hits on Obama, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 2
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Obama's globetrotting has been a masterstroke, McCain has had a week of fumbles and the polls tell the tale, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 25 July 2008 2
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While Berlin bows down to Obama, the bad media just piles up for Macca, writes Guy Rundle.
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 0
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Poor old John. The bloke can't take a trick at the moment. But worse, the political bad weather seems to be affecting the judgment of both McCain himself and his staff, writes Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 2
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Before a gym full of cheering troops in the Green Zone, someone handed Obama a basketball. Obama tensed up, and then put the damn thing in, from the three point line, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 0
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What Obama is planning in Afghanistan is the next quagmire. And an ineffectual one at that, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 0
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The old Democrat left has morphed seemlessly into a polyglot on-line presence, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 1
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Outside of the 400 blocks or so on Manhattan Island where it functions as a local rag, the The New Yorker is, for many people, about as visible as the Almanach de Gotha, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 14 July 2008 1
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Witha FOX Tony Snow tribute playing like a communique from Romula 7, Guy Rundle bids a fond fairwell to Portland.
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Friday, 11 July 2008 0
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Why Jesse apologise? ... The nation already has one Dr Phil .. A little help here ... Whither Turd Blossom?
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 1
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What happens if Obama's numbers track in susbtantially for whatever reason, and the election becomes a genuine toss-up? Guy Rundle explores the possibilities.
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008 5
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Oabam's family interview, for all places -- Access Hollywood -- was good. God it made me feel sorry for John McCain, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 7 July 2008 0
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The DNC will be a mass, carnivalesque event with youth and energy, while the GOP event is going to look like a Regional Plumbing Supplies Sales Conference, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 4 July 2008 0
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Welcome to American 24 hour news TV in its decadence, an endless cycle of talk shows that, according to the Pew research centre, are watched even sporadically by no more than 20% of the population, writes Guy Rundle.
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Thursday, 3 July 2008 4
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Paralysis of the will has been the fatal flaw in the Democratic party for a generation. But whatever mistakes Obama is going to make, failure of will is not going to be one of them, writes Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008 7
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They met in Unity, New Hampshire because meeting in Poughkeepsie, New York wouldn't have struck quite the tone the Democrats were looking for. Guy Rundle reports.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 5
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The Right is outraged over the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo, and by Friday John McCain had clearly decided it would be a rallying point for his campaign, writes Guy Rundle.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 4
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Well, despite those who from afar are ready to call the race for McCain, here in the actual jurisdiction, no-one knows what the hell is going on. Reason is, America has never faced a competition like this, says Guy Rundle.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 5
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Clinton concedes on her own terms and Obama has yet to announce his running mate. And the real contest has yet begun, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 6 June 2008 5
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Who should run with Obama? Guy Rundle surveys a wide open field.
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Thursday, 5 June 2008 6
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Hillary The Undead continues her march toward the inevitable moment, merely days away now (surely!) when her presidential aspirations finally die, writes Guy Rundle.
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 8
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'Hillary really can never top this. Must really hurt to know that.' Guy Rundle watches another evening unfold into pained anit-climax.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 6
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Where did it all go wrong for the bug-eyed lady? wonders Crikey intern Emma Kemp. Here are the top-ten death-inflicting Hillary moments.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 4
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There's no classy way for Hillary to withdraw from the race now, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 2 June 2008 2
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If only the Democrat death match could be set to music ... cue Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 30 May 2008 0
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The DemocraticParty rules committee meets this weekend. Will this be the Obama moment, asks G