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Patti Solis Doyle Joins Obama Team

Former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle is joining the Obama team, making it the “first big hire” from the Clinton campaign. I suspect we’ll see a few more Clinton staffers make their way over to the Obama campaign as the Obama team ramps up for the general election. In ‘04, if I am not [...]

John Kerry on Tim Russert’s Death

I just got in a couple of hours ago from abut 8 hours on the road and not a lick of news, by choice. Needless to say, I was stunned to get back online and see that Tim Russert had died suddenly today. I bumped into Tim Russert, literally in the press area of a [...]

Working The Rope Line

On Saturday, the NY Times had an interesting story comparing the differences between Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain on the rope line at campaign events. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to be up at the front at a rally and been one of the brave souls who jostles for the opportunity to [...]

Get A Grip!!!

Okay… Here goes… Get A Grip!!!
Part 1: Everyone reading this blog and commenting here that they will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee needs to: Get A Grip!!!
Has everyone simply lost all sense of hell we have been through with George W. Bush that they are willing to sacrifice putting a Democrat in the [...]

Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey was a writer for the 2004 JohnKerry.com Campaign Blog from August ‘03 through the 2004 election cycle. She was one of the top three contributors to the Kerry campaign blog.
Deciding it was time to be actively involved in changing America’s direction, Pamela started blogging about John Kerry on the Unofficial Kerry Blog in [...]

Why Some on the Left Still Don’t Get It

I wanted to briefly add one thought on John Kerry’s grilling of Sam Fox which both Pamela and I wrote about yesterday. Predictably, as Pamela wrote, the wingnuts found Kerry’s grilling to be “offensive”, but what was odd is the reaction by some on the left as well, and why I say in the title [...]

Washington Post Gets It Wrong Even When It Gets It Right

Leave it to the WaPo to reguritate conventional wisdom about the Democrats and/or Kerry. The conventional Washington widom these days is that Democrats have no new ideas. Finally, Michael Grunwald points out that 1994 and the GOP Contract With America was:
“the annunciation moment for the Church of New Ideas, alleged proof that a [...]

Douglas Brinkley: Chronicling 'The Great Deluge'

Historian Douglas Brinkley, author of the John Kerry biography Tour of Duty, was on NPR’s Fresh Air on Friday morning talking about his experiences in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Brinkley teaches at Tulane University and was displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
After Katrina, Brinkley got his family out and relocated them to Houston, TX and then [...]

More from Salon’s War Room on Gannon and Wilson/Kerry

It’s a page right out of the Republican playbook: If you say the same thing often enough –

Rathergate Related Complaint Against Kerry, CBS Dismissed

The claim by the Center for Individual Freedom that the Kerry Campaign was involved in Rathergate has been thrown out by the FEC.
Election officials have thrown out a complaint against John Kerry’s presidential campaign and CBS over a now-discredited story that questioned President Bush’s National Guard service.
The Federal Election Commission, in a 6-0 ruling, said [...]