The Daily Background
| Fred Thompson to announce for president this afternoon… via press release
by Arlen Parsa
So… Hillary announced on video. Barack announced before thousands of screaming fans (which was simulcast on the internet). And Fred Thompson?
He’ll be doing it via press release. Late on a Thursday afternoon.
That’s right, Fred Thompson is set to formally announce his candidacy for president today via a sheet of white paper. How… bland. Boring. Unremarkable. Conservative.
After a summer of “testing the waters,” former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., is expected to announce his intention to run for president Thursday afternoon in a paper statement.
A statement to the media will be released around 4:30p EST, shortly after Political Director Randy Enwright’s conference call with supporters, his office confirmed.
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.
Update: Worst announcement ever. Now NBC says Thompson will announce on September 6th. A quick calendar check revevals that that’s the day of the Fox/UNH debate in New Hampshire, the one that the Union Leader is bitching about.
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