About '08 Roadies

'08 Roadies is a periodic diary of campaign dispatches by Washington bureau chief Walter Shapiro, who is covering his eighth presidential race, and Mike Madden, Salon's Washington correspondent.

Current Salon Politics Stories

• Hang up and drive

  Think driving while talking on the cellphone is safe as long as you use a headset, as new laws require? Stop yammering and read this article.

  By Katharine Mieszkowski

• Vive la Obama différence!

  By Beth Arnold

• The Obama show lands in Israel

  By Aluf Benn

’08 Update

18:56 EDT, July 24, 2008

McAuliffe's choice for veep not Clinton? The former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign seems to say he wants someone else to be Barack Obama's running mate.

By Alex Koppelman

War Room

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18:40 EDT, July 24, 2008

Quote of the day Chuck Hagel wants everyone to step back, take a deep breath and stop talking about the surge.

By Alex Koppelman

War Room

17:39 EDT, July 24, 2008

From a glass house, the straight talker throws stones McCain's campaign is now criticizing Obama for having the temerity to make speeches outside the country -- of course, McCain did the same thing just a month ago.

By Alex Koppelman

War Room

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16:57 EDT, July 24, 2008

Report: More than 200,000 watched Obama The crowd for Barack Obama's speech in Berlin was reportedly his largest ever.

By Alex Koppelman

War Room

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15:50 EDT, July 24, 2008

Obama had cheering Germans; McCain had German sausage With their choice of counterprogramming for Obama's Berlin speech, Republicans try to portray McCain as more focused on the U.S. than Obama is.

By Justin Jouvenal

War Room

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Salon Politics Blogs

• War Room

  McAuliffe's choice for veep not Clinton?

  The former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign seems to say he wants someone else to be Barack Obama's running mate.

  Alex Koppelman

• Glenn Greenwald

  Who is doing real journalism?

  Because the institutions that are designed to check the government have been failing so profoundly, the ACLU and similar groups have been forced to step into that role.

  Glenn Greenwald

• Joan Walsh

  Obama's political brilliance in Berlin

  There are still risks to his big trip, but Obama has plenty of reason to be riding high on the adoring crowds greeting him abroad.

  Joan Walsh