Wednesday’s political round-up

June 20, 2007

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:

* If the ongoing Take Back America conference in DC this week is any indication, the progressives are as geared up for the 2008 cycle as at any point ever. “There’s enthusiasm and optimism that someone in this room will be elected president,” said Wayne Holland Jr., head of the Utah Democratic Party who attended the conference of liberal activists organized by the Campaign for America’s Future. “There’s a confidence I’ve never seen.”

* Barack Obama’s speech at the TBA conference was very well received (and is online), as was John Edwards (whose speech is also online). From people I’ve talked to who were in the room, Obama helped himself the most, hitting what several attendees told me was a “home run.”

* Hillary Clinton spoke today and received a less-enthusiastic response. Bill Scher noted the boos that Clinton generated, but explained they came in response to the senator blaming Iraqis for not having done more to stabilize their country. (National Review and Fox News are suggesting activists booed Clinton for expressing support for the U.S. military. National Review and Fox News are, predictably, wrong.)

* Bill Richardson blasted some of his colleagues for supporting the Feingold-Reid war policy, but neglected to mention that he, too, supported the Feingold-Reid war policy up until very recently. (The Richardson campaign tried to scrub its website of references, but missed a few.)

* Rudy Giuliani’s day was pretty bad yesterday when Newsday discovered he blew off the Iraq Study Group to give lucrative private speeches, but Giuliani’s day got worse later in the day when the chairman of his presidential campaign in South Carolina was indicted for selling cocaine.

* The Wyoming Republican central committee picked state Sen. John Barrasso, former state treasurer Cynthia Lummis and former assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Sansonetti as the final three candidates for the state’s open Senate seat.

* And in the special election in Georgia’s 10th. former state Sen. Jim Whitehead (R) led a large field, but fell short of avoiding a run-off election, which will be held next month.

but Giuliani’s day got worse later in the day when the chairman of his presidential campaign in South Carolina was indicted for selling cocaine.

Republican: synonyms – crook, thief, liar, cheat, conspirator, murderer, defendant, convict, parolee….

  • In this present crisis, Republicans are not the solution to our problems with government; Republicans are the problem.

  • Wow–Bill Richardson can’t even tie his own shoes without looking completely incompetent.

  • Good one, Ghost! (#2)

    That’s a soundbite that I hope we hear a lot more during the campaign.

  • It’s so nice to hear that Dems are confident about taking the presidency in 2008. Has anybody bothered to deal with Diebold, by the way?

    It is so g*ddamned stupid to put up with touchscreen voting machines at all, much less the ones from companies that were complicit in stealing past elections. Let me spell it out: Mail-in voting a la Oregon. End of story. There, was that so hard?

  • Sorry to keep bringing this up, but are there any majority-Democrat states with procedures in place, along the lines of Wyoming’s, to protect Democratic-held senate seats?

    And if not, why the f— not???!!!???

  • The most ridiculous thing about York’s lies, aside from how unapologetically blatant they are, is that it’s hard to imagine that anyone who’s not a serious wingnut actually believes them. Who are these people who are convinced there are places where mobs of Americans boo the troops? It’s scary to think what else exists in this fantasy world of theirs and how their distorted view of reality affects their political decisions.

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