Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * John Edwards sounded rather emphatic recently when he said he’s not interested in being Barack Obama’s running mate, but he sounded a little more open to the idea yesterday. “Well, I’d take […]
It was, by most measures, one of the more striking moments of the 1992 campaign. A rap artist named Sister Souljah had said, “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” Shortly thereafter, then-Gov. Bill Clinton spoke to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition and denounced the rapper, […]
For a blog to feature news content from an Associated Press article is about as common as the sunrise, so it came as something of a surprise last week when the news agency went after a prominent liberal blog for what seemed like a minor excerpting issue. Last week, The A.P. took an unusually strict […]
A week ago, Newsweek asked John McCain about remarks he made during his infamous, widely-panned “lime Jell-O” speech near New Orleans, in which he criticized the media for not having been fair enough to Hillary Clinton. When Newsweek brought it up, McCain immediately denied it, “I did not [say that] — that was in prepared […]
The latest to join the far-right chorus of Republicans who want Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) to be John McCain’s running mate is Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said yesterday that Jindal “would be far and away the best candidate.” Gingrich, who appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” heaped praise upon the former congressman, […]
The anecdotes are plentiful, and for those of us who want to see the nation improve, kind of scary. Hillary Clinton supporters, Democrats all, insist that they really are going to give up on the issues important to Clinton and the party in order to vote for conservative Republican John McCain. For news junkies, these […]