Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry is reported to currently be at Massachusetts General Hospital with Senator Kennedy and members of the Kennedy family. Via my contact in Senator Kerry’s office, his press office has released the following statement in regards to Senator Edward Kennedy:
“Ted Kennedy is beloved and respected on both sides of the aisle in the Senate in […]
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Andrei Cherny was on The Colbert Report last night discussing his new book, The Candy Bombers, with Stephen Colbert.
Andrei is co-founder and co-editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a former White House speechwriter and Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As I expected she would… Today in Rapid City, SD, Hillary Clinton went to bat for Barack Obama in the wake of Bush’s comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports (via Politico).
She told reporters:
President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially […]
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
…That John Kerry sniped mercilessly at Howard Dean during the 2004 primary, but no one ever accused him of being a traitor to the Democratic Party?
…That when feminists complain of massive sexism and misogyny during the campaign, they are called “whiners,” but when Obama supporters complain of racism, they are called “victims of injustice”?
…That when […]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been back in the news over the past couple of days making headlines and stirring up more controversy:
After addressing the NAACP yesterday in Detroit, Jeremiah Wright travels to the heart of the media beast — the National Press Club in DC — where he has been speaking this morning.
You can watch Wright’s NAACP […]
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Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Hillary Clinton has taken the prize in the New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey primaries tonight.
Clinton also “picked up victories in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.”
Clinton greeted cheering supporters Tuesday night in New York, which had 232 delegates on offer. “Tonight, we are hearing the voices of people across America,” she said.
Clinton acknowledged that neither she […]
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Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In May 2005, Vanity Fair published a brilliant article about the ‘04 election and the Republican Noise Machine, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – The Disinformation Society.
I was thinking about what Obama said on Face The Nation today that “he didn’t expect immunity from Republican attacks, but could diffuse them with his message of unity and capacity to […]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry was in San Francisco today stumping for Barack Obama. Calitics has video clips.
I gotta just say that although I split with Kerry on who to support in this Democratic primary race; he’s endorsed Obama and I have endorsed Hillary Clinton, if Kerry had been here in Los Angeles today, I woulda been there in a Massachusetts […]
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Todd Mitchell
Once again, the most prescient comments from last night’s coverage of the Republican primary in Florida came from the more conservative analysts, Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough. As it became clear John McCain was going to win, Buchanan and Scarborough had this exchange:
JS: “There is no way conservatives are going to rally and turn out […]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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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Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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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