Donald Lambro

Georgia tests candidates’ diplomacy

The two senators auditioning for the role of commander in chief had a surprise dress rehearsal over the weekend with the sudden hostility in Georgia, and their starkly different initial performances give voters an insight into how the candidates would handle a middle-of-the-night crisis.

August 12, 2008

BREITBART: The Casting of a President

Welcome to the Hollywood Election Wayback Machine, 2004 Edition.

August 11, 2008

LAMBRO: Courting union votes

When Barack Obama was seeking AFL-CIO support in the primaries, he promised to sign a bill that would effectively deprive workers of a private-ballot vote in unionization drives.

August 11, 2008

Obama, Clinton try to downplay their rift

Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday were trying to mediate the lingering estrangement between their two camps that erupted anew when the New York senator said she wanted to have her supporters heard and "respected" at the Democratic National Convention this month.

August 8, 2008

LAMBRO: Savvy GOP maneuver

When Democratic leaders shut down Congress last week for the rest of the summer to avoid dealing with record oil and gas prices, they may have committed the biggest political blunder of the 2008 elections.

August 7, 2008

BREITBART: Enemy of the State

Last Monday on these pages, my article "Blacklist Then and Now" coincidentally appeared the same day as an op-ed penned by screen legend Jon Voight.

August 4, 2008

Obama supports union organizing

Legislation that would make it more difficult for workers to hold a private ballot vote in unionization drives, which critics say would lead to harassment and intimidation, has spurred a pitched battle between powerful labor unions supportive of Sen. Barack Obama and big business in the presidential campaign.

July 31, 2008

BREITBART: Blacklist then and now

The New York Times and the left-wing girls play an integral role in keeping the pendulum right where it is - and that is far to the left. But hope springs eternal.

July 28, 2008

Obama ad surge yields no ‘measurable impact’

Sen. Barack Obama's summer saturation ad campaign in key battleground states has not increased the Illinois Democrat's poll numbers, according to senior strategists for Sen. John McCain's campaign and recent independent polling.

July 28, 2008

McCain backers: Obama ad blitz a bust

Barack Obama's summer saturation ad campaign in key battleground states has not increased the Illinois Democrat's poll numbers, according to senior strategists for John McCain's campaign and recent independent polling.

July 27, 2008

Obama takes on airs of inevitability

Barack Obama is only a candidate, but don't tell that to the Germans, some of whom have leapfrogged that whole election thing and already are calling him "President Obama" in advance of his visit.

July 23, 2008

Political showdown in West

Western Republican states that mostly were ignored by Democrats until Sen. Barack Obama "showed up" are turning into political battlegrounds in the 2008 election.

July 22, 2008

BREITBART: A different kind of surge

While conservatives own an ironclad argument that Hollywood discriminates against our kind, we are certainly not blameless for the predicament.

July 21, 2008

LAMBRO: War wobbles

About a week ago I reported in this column that a top defense adviser to Barack Obama was proposing that a large "residual" U.S. military force remain in Iraq under his mercurial troop withdrawal plan.

July 17, 2008

Democrats’ focus shifts to South

The solid Republican South is looking a little less solid lately, with several battleground states giving the Democrats a rare chance to crack open the Republican Party's electoral lock on the politically conservative region.

July 15, 2008

LAMBRO: More like ‘shortchange’

Barack Obama likes to use the word "investment" in his campaign speech on getting the U.S. economy growing again, but it means something very different for him than it does for most people.

July 14, 2008

BREITBART: Mr. Spielberg, tear down this wall

While it is true that the ratio of Obama-to-McCain bumper stickers in West L.A. is about 250-to-1, there are untold closet Republicans in the entertainment industry who dare not advertise their beliefs in movie studio parking lots.

July 14, 2008

Obama mocks ‘whiners’ comments by McCain adviser

The McCain campaign also distanced itself Thursday from Sen. Phil Gramm's remarks about America becoming 'a nation of whiners.'

July 10, 2008

Gramm pins GOP identity problems on Bush

A McCain campaign chairmen blames the president and Republicans in Congress for damaging the party brand, but promises that the presidential candidate will soon announce the most comprehensive economic plan "ever."

July 10, 2008