The President Precedent

Obama gets posterized

By Joe Tone
Aug 26, 2008

Hopeless? Looks like someone has lost "Hope." -- Michael Roberts...
Now Announcing His Presidential Candidacy: Me!

By Michael Roberts
Jul 23, 2008

Welcome to the Internet, where weirdness is as close as your mouse. Today's example: The video clip below, which allows users to insert any name they'd like into a mock news story about swelling support for an unknown presidential candidate. Of course, I entered my name, which magically pops up...
Shiloh Benson Tillemann-Dick’s Veep Sheet

By Joel Warner
Jul 9, 2008

Shiloh Benson Tillemann Dick has a head – a very large head – for politics, one that stands out even among the feisty politicos of the colorful family profiled in the July 10 Westword. The 18-year-old correctly predicted Obama’s church affiliations would prove problematic – last August. Shiloh took time...
Q&A With Tom Tancredo

By Michael Roberts
Jun 11, 2008

The 2008 presidential race has special meaning for Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo. After all, he was part of the Republican candidates pack mere months ago – and in the hefty Q&A below, he recalls the good, the bad and the fugly parts of his experiences with humor and frustration, not...
Q&A With Gary Hart

By Michael Roberts
Jun 4, 2008

A number of Coloradoans have run for president, but no one came closer to actually winning the office than former Senator Gary Hart. In 1984, he presented a heated challenge to anointed party favorite (and subsequent landslide victim) Walter Mondale, ultimately falling short in large part because superdelegates -- a...
Freedom Belle

By Jonathan Shikes
May 31, 2008

Christine Smith wanted to be the first female president of the United States, the first Coloradan and the first Libertarian in the Oval Office. And the 41-year-old Golden woman, who ran a principled if underdog-style campaign, thought she had a good chance of winning her party’s nomination at its national...