Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Using a new tact, calling the blanket non-coverage of Sarah Palin by the media a sexist tactic, she called for the same treatment as every other candidate in the race.
While Keith Olbermann mentions this unprecented isolation of a national candidate every night, I hope he gets mad and does a full length ‘Special Comment’. If [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
CNN reports today that Barack Obama’s campaign said “that the details of a potentially contentious roll call had finally been hammered out after weeks of discussion with aides to Hillary Clinton.”
The New York senator’s supporters had successfully pressed for her name to be placed in nomination in Denver, and party leaders had feared that the [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It’s been a while since I did a late night thread… so here goes…
John Daniello, the chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party on Obama - Biden: “Seeing them together now, they’re a natural team,” he said. “I think they’re going to do well.”
Florida and Michigan delgates to be seated with full voting rights: Dems give [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It’s looking like the pick is Senator Joe Biden… Marc Ambinder picked up on this item:
A flight from Midway to New Castle, DE… to pick someone up? Who knows? No other flights from anywhere in and around Chicago to anywhere in and around Delaware… or vice versa. Just this charter.
Here’s the FlightAware link from Ambinder: [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
On Saturday, Democrats reached agreement on the Party platform and “shaped a set of principles“ that commits the Democratic Party to “guaranteed health care for all.” The agreed position on health care falls closer to the position Hillary Clinton held in the primaries, than that of Barack Obama.
Advisers to Obama and Clinton both told the party’s [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
I’ll just refer to the original newstory as it’s an indepth article, however CNN is also covering this. This isn’t the only topic in the story. It comes from the International Herald Tribune.
Separately, Obama said he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that would help promote alternative energy sources, a [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Reuters reported today that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told German magazine, Der Spiegel, in an interview released today that “Maliki said he wanted U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible.”
“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Barack Obama, has made his personal religious beliefs one of the central parts of his campaign. This has brought praise from many and condemnation from some. The evangelical Right, in the person of James Dobson, is certainly objecting saying that Senator Obama has ‘distorted’ The New Testament and Christianity.
Here [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
[UPDATE!!] The headline and initial story below are inaccurate. There is another accurate update below
At the same event in Zanesville, Ohio where Senator Obama called for an increase in funding for ‘faith-based initiatives’, he also refused to fist bump a young supporter when that boy stuck his fist out for recognition.
CNN reports:
Is Obama ditching his [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
His own words:
Reactions from First Thoughts at MSNBC:
[...] This move has been widely speculated, but it’s a reversal from comments he made earlier in the campaign season that he would he accept general funds — which gives the candidates about $85 million to spend after the conventions. Assuming each of Obama’s 1.5 million-plus contributors gives him [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
I never thought that I would see the day that the Democratic Party would even think of reducing the power of the vote of Democrats in two states. I thought one man, one vote was a basic Democratic principle.
If you are not watching CNN or MSNBC’s live coverage it’s fact filled. You can watch the [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
As we discussed earlier today, Obama is finally getting some detailed Traditional Media attention. The WSJ says today:
As smart and credentialed as he is, Sen. Obama is often an indifferent speaker without a teleprompter. He has large gaps in his knowledge base, and is just as likely to dig in and embrace a policy misstatement [...]
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