Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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 [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, General Election, In The News, John Kerry, Michelle Obama, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Sen. Ted Kennedy
Posted on June 14th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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 [...]
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Filed under: In The News, John Kerry, MSNBC, NBC News, News Media, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, TV
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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 [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
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 [...]
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Filed under: Democratic Daily, Democrats, Election '08, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
Posted on January 18th, 2008 by 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 [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
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 [...]
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Filed under: John Kerry, Politics, Republicans, Senate
Posted on April 1st, 2006 by Nick
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 [...]
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Filed under: Congress, House of Reps, John Kerry, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans, Senate
Posted on September 17th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
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 [...]
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Filed under: John Kerry, Politics
Posted on August 5th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
It’s a page right out of the Republican playbook: If you say the same thing often enough –
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Filed under: John Kerry
Posted on July 21st, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
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 [...]
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Filed under: In The News