2008 campaign
"I still love Ann." And here's what I love about Mitt Romney.
Short sentences ! I am happy to be in Michigan this morning. I'm happy to have my brother Scott and Sister Lynn here. And I'm proud to have a…
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2008 campaign
"She is definitely savvier, more cautious, and probably more cynical, than she was then..."
The NYT has a big front-page article on Hillary Clinton and the women who were her Class of 1969 at Wellesley College. Excerpt: Eleanor Dean Acheson…
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2008 campaign
I'm going to miss this man.
Obama, handing out Halloween candy, sees a tiny boy dressed as Prince , and bursts into "Purple rain, purple rain": I don't know how lo…
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2008 campaign
If Obama talked like this in 2008...
... how can it be awesomely awful for candidate Romney to articulate his criticism of the present administration? Video via Ed Morrissey ("I t…
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2008 campaign
Live-blogging the Democratic debate.
1. Isn't it fascinating that the candidates aren't standing at their lecterns? Wolf Blitzer thinks so, as he announces each candidate and we …
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2008 campaign
"Contrast Dodd's leadership and conviction on this matter with the complete passivity and invisibility of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama."
Okay. Then contrast Dodd to Clinton and Obama on this new LA Times/Bloomberg poll ( PDF ), asking Democrats who are registered and plan to vote in t…
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2008 campaign
"What we have here is a case of a lazy reporter being burned by a fellow Democrat who told her, probably as a lark, that he was a Republican..."
Lawyer blatantly fools journalist into featuring him in her article, and she can't back down. The anecdote was so perfect. Just the hook she nee…
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2008 campaign
"Could Hillary Clinton have grabbed Edwards' loyalists and won early, stage-setting contests in Iowa..."
"... where Barack Obama emerged as a contender with a stunning win, or later, in the South Carolina primary?"
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2008 campaign
Let's watch the Democratic debate in New Hampshire.
Okay, we're off. Wolf Blitzer invites the candidates to introduce themselves with a quick one liner. John Edwards wins this round by saying "…
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2008 campaign
"On paper, they look an awful lot like Hillary Rodham Clinton."
"They are professional women of a certain age — politically active Democrats, liberals, unabashed feminists who remember what it was like to be …
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2008 campaign
"Chuck Who? Poll Finds Few Opinions About Hagel."
I have an opinion: No one even cares that no one cares that no one has an opinion about Chuck Hagel. Plus, this is a TimesSelect link , so let's …
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2008 campaign
Hillary Clinton and Obama on the Iraq vote.
The Democrats and the war: Democrats looked to the upcoming votes after losing a bruising battle with Bush on an emergency war spending bill. Lacking…
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2008 campaign
NYT/CBS poll finds only 1/3 of Americans think the ACA will improve the health care system.
The full numbers won't come out until later today, so there aren't specific percentages at the squib just published at the NYT , and there is…
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2008 campaign
Goodbye to Ruth Garland-Dewson, the San Francisco milliner.
"Mrs. Dewson owned a celebrated shop on upper Fillmore Street called Mrs. Dewson's Hats for more than 37 years. Among her customers were for…
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2008 campaign
"What I said was the same thing that the audience here today heard me say, which is, if Pakistan is unable or unwilling to hunt down bin Laden and take him out, then we should."
"Now, that I think has to be our policy, because they are threatening to kill more Americans," said Barack Obama at the Town Hall Debate, o…
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2008 campaign
2008 campaign
"It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation..."
"Yes, we can." "... We're gonna change it, and rearrange it, we're gonna change the world..."
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2008 campaign
Adam Serwer doubles down on race after WaPo played its embarrassingly weak race card on Rick Perry.
From his perch at Mother Jones, Serwer says: You might have anticipated that Perry would face a firestorm for being associated with the property, but…
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2008 campaign
It's hard to fathom why a movie about Rathergate — with Robert Redford as Dan Rather — is being made.
Years ago, Redford played the role of another newsman, Bob Woodward, in "All the President's Men," the story of 2 dogged journalists wh…
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2008 campaign
The candidates... in a word.
Tranquility Base is asking you — quick — to give your first word association for each of the presidential candidates: John McCain Barack Obama Mike …
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