Michael Tomasky

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Michael Tomasky: Free Roman Polanski

I see here that Roman Polanski is petitioning for a return to the United States on the strength of supposedly new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct. He seeks dismis...

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Michael Tomasky: Clinton may be a good choice for Obama's secretary of state after all

Call me a soft touch, I guess. I haven't been wild about the idea of Hillary Clinton becoming Barack Obama's secretary of state. But this morning, seeing the two of th...

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Michael Tomasky: Obama and Clinton need to overcome their campaign differences to be an effective team

Understandably, most of the scuttlebutt and speculation about the secretary of state's job and you-know-who has revolved around the obvious things, by which I mean the...

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Michael Tomasky: Franken gaining

Al Franken is steadily gaining in the Minnesota recount:With about 46 percent of the 2.9 million ballots counted by Thursday evening, the gap between Republican incumb...

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Michael Tomasky: Sixty more days?

Question: Do we think George Bush is, you know, working anymore? There's no visible sense that he's doing anything beyond the ceremonial stuff, welcoming this or that ...

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Michael Tomasky: Zawahri video

So Ayman al-Zawahri says in his new video of the president-elect, according to the AP:The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama doe...

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Michael Tomasky: The Cuban vote

The one minority group the R's could always count on, of course, are the Cubans of Miami.Sure enough, McCain won the Cuban vote handily, about 65 to 35 in Miami-Dade C...

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Michael Tomasky: Rivals, but a team?

I shouldn't overlook this important LA Times op-ed piece, even though it ran yesterday. Civil War historian Matthew Pinsker writes that Lincoln's famous Team of Rivals...

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Michael Tomasky: Red college towns

I just love this NYT county-by-county map of the presidential results.One thing caught my eye. In Knox County, Tennessee, Obama got hornswaggled, 61 to 38%. So what? W...

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Michael Tomasky: Lieberman could resign?

Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana says that if the Democrats strip Joe Lieberman of his committee chair, he may resign:Bayh warned that stripping Lieberman of hi...

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Michael Tomasky: health care

Yesterday, Max Baucus, Democratic senator from Montana and chairman of the very important Finance Committee, held a press briefing in which he seemed to throw himself ...

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Michael Tomasky: On Michelle O.

Great piece by the ever-insightful Rebecca Traister of Salon on the disappointing domestication of Michelle Obama. This Harvard-trained lawyer with views about the wor...

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