The most intriguing part of the State of the Union Address for me was watching the Kansas Governor audition for the second spot on the Obama ticket. The main lesson I took from the entire experience, however, is that Obama is playing a dangerous game by creating expectations that he almost certainly cannot deliver on.
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Hillary Clinton was in Hartford, Connecticut today, speaking at a rally there about the economy and Bush’s SOTU speech tonight. A clip of the speech is below:
It struck me listening to the clip from her speech and then reading the transcript, that Hillary Clinton’s politics are not politics of the past, as Ted Kennedy [...]
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TPMmuckracker reported earlier that “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) cloture vote failed 48-45,” the vote was “well short of the 60 votes necessary.”
In the end, four Dems crossed over to vote with the Republicans: Sens. Mark Pryor (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) was the lone [...]
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Worthy of mention here… Today, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act, to give more support to foster families, foster children, and young adults transitioning from the foster care system into adulthood. Right now, one-fifth of foster children wind up being homeless adults.
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Today was a big day for Barack Obama’s campaign to bring “change we can believe in,” as Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy and Patrick Kennedy took to the stage at American University to endorse Obama.
It was reported that “before the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Kennedy had planned to stay out of the race,” but Kennedy became increasingly [...]
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Ezra Klein had an OP/ED in the L.A. Times on the subject of “unity” on Sunday. In the OP/ED, Ezra says, “even a consensus-building, problem-solving president can’t solve political gridlock.” He’s got a point and a very good point.
“Unity” ain’t a fix all for America’s ills. For all the hype on bringing everyone together it [...]
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