If you haven’t read Elizabeth Edwards OP/ED in the NY Times on the media’s role in this election cycle it’s a must read: Bowling 1, Health Care 0. I highly agree with Edwards’ closing paragraph: If voters want a vibrant, vigorous press, apparently we will have to demand it. Not by screaming out our windows as in the movie “Network” but by talking calmly, repeatedly, constantly in the ears of those in whom we have entrusted this enormous responsibility....
Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Expectations Game
If the last dozen states have taught us anything it’s that Obama will get over 90% of the African American vote in North Carolina. Personally, that doesn’t bother me. If there were a similarly viable Hispanic candidate, I’d be pretty darn excited about her or his candidacy. (In fact, there was such a candidate, Bill Richardson, and I did get excited about his candidacy and even donated to his campaign. Of course, he was for the most part ignored....
The Reality of Campaign Life
Everyone knows this has been a long, difficult primary season. We know we are tired of some of the repetition and constant newsmaking. But have you thought of the impact on both staff and both candidates? From today’s WaPo: “After nearly six months on the road, sleeping in hotels, herding an unruly press corps onto buses, and boarding and emptying out charter planes from Medford, Ore., to Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jen Psaki on Friday faced reality.” It’s well worth...
Crossed by Obama, Palmer Stumps for Clinton in Indiana
For everyone who thinks still that Barack Obama doesn’t play old school politics here’s a new flash… Alice Palmer, the former Illinois state senator who hand picked “Obama to be her successor back in the mid-90s” won’t be campaigning for Obama in Indiana. Instead she’s campaigning for Hillary Clinton: Sphere: Related Content
Hillary Challenges Obama To A ‘Mano a Mano’ Debate: No Moderators
In one of the best moves of the campaign, AP reports that Hillary Clinton , in just the last hour, while in South Bend, Indiana, challenged Barack Obama to a open ‘mano a mano’ debate. Styled after the most substantive debates of all time, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, she challenged, “Just the two of us, one on one, going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions, we’ll set whatever rules seem fair,”...
Hillary to Obama: I Challenge You to a Duel
Fresh off her resounding defeat of Obama in Pennsylvania and her incredible haul of $10 million in one night, Hillary Clinton challenges Obama to a one-on-one Lincoln-Douglas style debate. Will Obama, now on the ropes, accept? Or is he afraid to face little ol’ Hill one-on-one, just like he’s afraid to face FL and MI voters? There won’t be ABC to scapegoat and hide behind, no anti-ABC Facebook groups to create with this format. C’mon, Barry. You up to...
Sad… Disgusting
How the Bush administration supports the troops: There’s more at Vet Voice and the Fayetteville (NC) Observer.
Late Night: Fair Is Fair
I’m sick of politics. I’m sick of the ugly commentary from pundits and the whiners on the blogs. What’s “Fair Is Fair” — right? It should be but it’s not if you are Hillary Clinton. Wake me when it’s over. I’ve had enough. Sphere: Related Content
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