It’s still January and yet, I am sick to death of politics.
Sadly, the primary wars are just like major car wrecks: you can’t help but stop and take a quick peek, no matter how gruesome the carnage may be.
The same can be said for my penchant for watching bad musical movies. And it’s not [...]
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Well there you have it… This just in from The Page: “The Snub” Before “The Snub”
Sources: Senior Obama staffers rejected proposal for their candidate to sit with Clinton at State of the Union.
Leading Democrats wanted rivals to sit together for the sake of party unity.
Clinton was willing, but Obama chose to sit with newly-minted supporter [...]
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The American Mayor… He didn’t have a prayer… “Perhaps he was living an illusion all along.”
John McCain won the Florida primary tonight, and “solidified his status as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.” Rudy barely placed yet again… He’s out:
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I wrote here on Sunday that the Kennedy family had split over their support of the front-runner candidates in the ‘08 election with Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy endorsing Barack Obama with three of RFK children have endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Today, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy have an OP/ED in the [...]
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Obama’s snub of Hillary Clinton at last night’s SOTU address is certainly making the rounds in news and the blogs today, as predicted, including USA Today’s On Politics quoting my headline from last night:
Pamela Leavey at the liberal blog The Democratic Daily headlined her report on all this “Mr. Unity turns his back on opponent [...]
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Ronald Reagan being a man of deeper parts than we thought at the time, had three great public talents. Barrack Obama has only two.
1. RR was a great speaker. He was eloquent when needed and direct when required. He would decide what to say and do it, mostly with grace.
2. RR had the ability to [...]
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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.
Sebelius [...]
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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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Senator Ted Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama tomorrow. The announcement of intention to endorse Obama comes in the wake of JFK’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy endorsing Obama in a N.Y. Times OP/ED today.
Ted Kennedy is “breaking his year-long neutrality” after John Kerry dropped out of the race, “to send a powerful signal of where the legendary [...]
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On the heels of his big win in South Carolina on Saturday, Caroline Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama in an OP/ED the N.Y. Times. She makes a very compelling argument for Obama, stating “My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined.”
All my life, people have told me that my father changed [...]
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The recent flap over Barack Obama’s comments on Ronald Reagan speaks volumes about what distinguishes our three democratic presidential candidates. But what it says is not complementary to either Obama or Clinton. Instead, once again, it shows us that John Edwards is the real candidate all Democrats should support.
Obama’s Intent
When Obama described Reagan’s Republican Party [...]
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The editorial board of the N.Y. Times has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries today, noting that the “early primaries produced two powerful main contenders: Hillary Clinton, the brilliant if at times harsh-sounding senator from New York; and Barack Obama, the incandescent if still undefined senator from Illinois.”
The endorsement takes an interesting look at the [...]
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