If at first you don't succeed, a wise man once said, try, try and try again. And then give up. No point being a whining ninny about it. It looks like the Hillary Clinton camp may finally be heeding this advice (that's the 'giving up' part, by the way,… read more…

'Stand by your man,' Tammy Wynette once sang, not realising that many of her listeners may have to do exactly that. And - following Hillary's forgiveness towards those cheeky little cigar-meets-intern antics a decade back - Bill Clinton clearly owes his wife a favour or two. Consider it returned.… read more…

What with the anti-war movement forming a huge part of the Democratic voting base, you'd think that both leadership candidates would be keeping the gung-ho mentality to an absolute minimum. Think about it. What would that nice Bill Maher say? Seems that this internal memo must have slipped Hillary… read more…

Running for Democratic Party leader must be a stressful old game. Sometimes, Westmonster expects, Hillary and Barack must want nothing more that to put their feet up, crack open a cold brewski and merrily sip their concerns away. Before gulping the entire bottle whole and then reaching for six… read more…

Should Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, he'll need all the help he can get to beat John McCain in the fall. Apparently all too aware of this fact is John Cleese — ex-Monty Python, ex-Basil Fawlty — and he's offering to do something about it. In… read more…

Despite the fact that the Democrat leadership battle is turning daily into the sort of tussle you'd see in a borstal exercise yard, it's nice to see that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama can at least come together on one thing. That thing being: disliking John McCain. Clinton and… read more…

This week's conventional wisdom — and oh, how Westmonster is tired of hearing about the conventional wisdom — is that Barack Obama has finally broken through and is steamrolling toward the Democratic Presidential nomination. Bully for him. The steamroller has been derailed at every turn in this primary season, and… read more…

You have to hand it to the Americans… when it comes to exporting "democracy" overseas, they're the world leaders. Their particular brand of democracy was on show tonight at Bayswater's Porchester Hall, where Democrats Abroad — the international wing of the US Democratic Party — held the London edition of… read more…

Was Bill Clinton, as Toni Morrison famously said, America's first black president? Barack Obama, speaking in last night's Congressional Black Caucus debate amongst candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, ain't so sure: "I would have to, you know, investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities … and some of this other… read more…

Westmonster can't just leave well enough alone, which is why we return to Dizzy's aforementioned piece on the race factor in the U.S. election, and the impact Obama's campaign might have on perception of America internationally. Unlike Dizzy's "American friend," we don't think he's calling out America as inherently racist.… read more…