It's time to do some nation building at home, says Tom Friedman, columnist in the New York Times, in the following excerpt. ...as snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful — and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season....

10 Ways Obama Should Not Imitate the John Kerry Campaign By Drew Westen, Huffington Post, via alternet.org, 8-26-08 It is time, once and for all, for Democrats to burn the Kerry playbook. For those who have done their best to forget, here are some of its key features. It is the same...

Accentuate the Negative by Paul Krugman in the New York Times, 8-25-08 So the Obama campaign has turned to the politics of personal destruction, attempting to make a campaign issue out of John McCain’s inability to remember how many houses he has. And the turn comes not a moment...

"If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating this Administration would take the gold." Dennis Kucinich Rocks DNC: “Wake Up America!” on alternet.org, 8-27-08 It's Election Day, 2008. We Democrats are giving America a wake up call. Wake up America. In 2001,...

Arianna Huffington questions "foreign policy experience," after considering that the two most experienced foreign policy people in the Bush administration were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. The past seven-plus years have shown us that "foreign policy experience," in and of...

Obama and McCain: The Stakes Are Too Huge for 'Civil' Politics By Frank Rich, The New York Times via alternet.org, 8-25-08 As the real campaign at last begins in Denver this week, this much is certain: It's time for Barack Obama to dispatch "Change We Can Believe In" to a dignified...