Archive for March, 2008
“Obama Campaign Skewers Clinton E-mail Statement”
Blog: March 15th, 2008Thanks to reader JG for the great tip… Wednesday morning, the Clinton campaign sent reporters and bloggers covering the campaign a statement that consisted of questions and comments under the title of “Keystone Test: Obama Losing Ground.” The Obama campaign’s communications department decided to annotate those questions and comments with some comments of their own… [...]
“Obama hitting it out of the park on patriotism”
Blog: March 15th, 2008Catching up on some great news links from readers including this one from JS…  Attached is an excellent op ed by Glenn Grenwald on the right way to handle the fake attacks on supposed Democratic Party lack of patriotism. Obama should give lessons to his fellow Democrats in congress. The Salon.com story is here.
Olbermann’s special comment on Clinton
Blog: March 17th, 2008Keith Olbermann offered the following opinion piece last week while I was on the road and I didn’t get a chance to make note of it. Democrats everywhere should worry when Agents of Reason like Keith find themselves forced to make plain the offenses of the Clinton campaign. The full text of the piece can [...]
Michigan revote a no go?
Blog: March 18th, 2008Marc Ambinder is reporting that Michigan’s proposed new primary may be dead in the water… Senate Democrats emerged from a closed-door caucus this morning and proclaimed that a fledging idea floated by top Michigan Democrats to create a special June 3 primary election is all but dead. “The votes aren’t there to do it,” said [...]
Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race
Blog: March 18th, 2008The big news of the day is Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia discussing race. In it’s lead up, it was compared to Kennedy’s speech on catholicism and Romney’s speech on mormonism. Though it was billed as a speech discussing race – it’s clear from those comparisons and the discussions regarding Obama’s pastor which prompted it, [...]
