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December 2, 2008
ARCHIVE: Democrats

Except to deliver a public scolding to Democrats in Florida and Michigan — and to expend a lot of hot air — it is hard to see what good came out of the day long meeting of the DNC Rules Committee on Saturday. In fact, it was much like watching a toothless tiger picking his […]

Topics: Michigan, Florida, Democrats, Campaign 2008 |

The Hill:
Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters not to demonstrate at Saturday’s highly anticipated Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting on how to handle the delegates of Florida and Michigan.
Even with just Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, and Chris Dodd competing on the Michigan ballot, Clinton received only 55 percent of the vote. Yet […]

Topics: Michigan, Obama, Florida, Democrats, Campaign 2008, Politics |
1000 Words   May. 26, 2008

Palm Beach, Florida has issued an invitation to Hillary Clinton, via columnist Frank Cerabino.
There isn’t a more outspoken, Democratic concentration of older white women in America than right here in condoland, and let’s face it, everybody likes to be around loved ones at the end
For Hillary, there’s no better place to wrap things up than […]

Topics: Florida, Democrats, Campaign 2008, Politics |

To win the presidency, Barack Obama will need to take all the states John Kerry won in 2004, plus either Florida or Ohio. At the moment, Florida is not looking good for him:
The latest polls, though, show Clinton would be the stronger candidate in Florida in November against John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
The Quinnipiac […]

Topics: Florida, Democrats, Campaign 2008 |

Now that Barack Obama is officially the pre-presumptive Democratic nominee, he’s going to have to decide what to do about “punishing” Florida and Michigan for moving their primaries too close to the sacred lead spots held by Iowa and New Hampshire.
Obama should undo what mean Dr. Dean threatened to do and seat the entire […]

Topics: Michigan, Florida, Democrats, Campaign 2008 |
Hamilton Jordan Dies   May. 21, 2008

Today:
Hamilton Jordan, the former top strategist and aide to Jimmy Carter, died Tuesday night after a long battle with cancer.
Friends said death came at around 7:30 p.m. and that he was comfortable and surrounded by friends. His son, Hamilton, Jr., return[ed] from Europe in time to be with his father…
He was 63 years old.
Jordan was […]

Topics: Democrats |

Breaking:
A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics’ most enduring figures.
Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from […]

Topics: Democrats |

I’d drink too if I said some of the stuff you do, Hillary.
Hillary Clinton and her supporters have finally done it. They’ve really, really, really pissed me off.
Their newest excuse for why Clinton’s campaign — one of the poorest run in my memory, with the possible exception of Gary Hart’s — failed is because people […]

Topics: Democrats, Campaign 2008, Clinton-haters, Politics |

Breaking:
Senator Edward Kennedy was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for tests after suffering a seizure, Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner said.
Kennedy, 76, the senior senator from Massachusetts, was taken to the Cape Cod hospital at around 9 a.m. today and transported by helicopter to Boston after about an hour, David Reilly, a Cape […]

Topics: Democrats |
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