By Steve Huff 4/17/12 11:51pm

Crategate

President Obama, working up an appetite.

Revelation Made by President 17 Years Ago Shakes Campaign: Obama Ate Dog!

The Dog Days have come early to this year’s presidential race with the revelation by the Daily Caller that our  president was fed dog meat by his stepfather as a boy living in Indonesia. President Obama disclosed this information in his little-known TIME Magazine top 100 non-fiction bestseller, Dreams from My Father, a 1995 memoir of his well-traveled youth.

If the Obama White House feels moved to complain about the hay their opponents are making (the Twitter hash tag #ObamaDogRecipes trended across party lines Tuesday night) out of this unfortunate nugget from his book they may have only themselves to blame. As ABC newsman Jake Tapper pointed out, Democrats have been relentless in promoting the tale of Mitt Romney’s unfortunate dog Seamus, who reportedly rode on the roof of the Romney family vehicle from Boston to Canada in 1983: Read More

By Steve Kornacki 10/22/09 1:35am

Pitchfork Sarah

Sarah Palin, should she decide to run for president in 2012, is on course to become the next Pat Buchanan or Jesse Jackson.

That’s the takeaway message from a Rasmussen poll this week, which found the former Alaska governor lagging far behind co-G.O.P. front-runners Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in head-to-head trial heats.

Against Read More

By Steve Kornacki 9/01/09 2:01pm

The New, Scary Mike Huckabee

I miss the old Mike Huckabee. No, not the circa-1998 porker who could have given John Madden a run for his money in a turducken eating contest; I mean the Mike Huckabee of 2007—the charming, warm-hearted country preacher who, it seemed, genuinely wanted to give a good account of his religion and Read More

By Steve Kornacki 8/06/09 12:14pm

Where Are the Liberal Mobs?

One by one, Democratic congressmen have watched this summer as their local town hall meetings have been overwhelmed and shut down by irate conservative activists who oppose health care reform.

The top-down nature of these protests has been noted. Nonetheless, they’re a potentially effective tool, because the pictures and video Read More