Filed at 9:32 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Democratic response by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius…
My stream of Sebelius’s response cut out halfway through so this liveblog is really incomplete.
Full speech text
Sebelius echoes Obama’s overtures of unity, saying “In this time, normally reserved for the partisan response, I hope to offer you something more: An American Response.”
Also is critical of typical media coverage given […]
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Filed at 9:18 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
A few tidbits before the Democratic response…
Full SOTU Transcript
Unidentified Rep says to Bush after handing him a copy of the speech to sign, “This one’s for Michelle Bachman.” Ever-clingy, even when she isn’t present.
Overheard:
Unidentified Rep: “You gonna come back next year?”
Bush: “I doubt it.”
Bush is pretending to be able to Spanish to Ken Salazaar. Heh.
Bush […]
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Filed at 9:04 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
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8:50 “A free Iraq will be a friend of America.”
8:52 On Israel/Palestine: “I assured leaders from both sides that America will do, and I will do, everything we can to help them achieve a peace agreement that defines a Palestinian state by the end of this year.”
8:53 “Wherever freedom advances in the […]
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Filed at 8:46 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
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8:30 By custom, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in attendance and the SCOTUS members only applaud rarely, and in matters related to their field. They’re supposed to be non-partisan; any applause for political stuff is seen as unbecoming. So that explains why they haven’t been clapping, in case you were wondering. Also, […]
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Filed at 8:29 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
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8:12Bush uses the phrase “Our charge to keep,” perhaps an allusion to the title of his (ghostwritten) 1999 candidate-memoir, “A Charge To Keep.”
8:13 First issue mentioned: “As we meet tonight, our economy is undergoing a period of uncertainty.” “We can all see that that growth is slowing.” Calls for tax cuts to […]
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Filed at 8:11 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
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7:56 Overheard on the podium mic: Pelosi whispering to Cheney: “That’s ridiculous!” What’s ridiculous, Nance?
7:57 SCOTUS enters, wearing their robes as usual.
7:58 Pelosi, wearing a lavender pantsuit, is rather chatty tonight: “That’s pretty dramatic isn’t it, to see the justices?”
7:59 First Lady enters unannounced, but to applause.
8:00 Apparently, there are cameras on […]
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Filed at 7:54 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
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7:36 Sen. Obama walked in with Sen. Kennedy; Sen. Clinton walked in with Joe Biden (I think). Who will they be sitting with? Rep. Pelosi walked in with Sen. Sherrod Brown.
7:39The speech itself is said to last about 42 minutes, although with applause that’ll likely seem longer.
The First Lady will be sitting […]
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Filed at 6:01 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Sen. Kennedy to stump for Obama in AZ, NM and CA.
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Filed at 5:52 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Wow, some candidate supporters are really, really obnoxious. Case in point from this Edwards supporter:
Obama’s supporters have chosen to vilify the former President, one of the few heroes of the Democratic Party’s recent past for their own political expediency.
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As an Edwards supporter, yes we are still around and we’re not going away, I can […]
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Filed at 2:53 pm, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Kennedy was most certainly Fired Up.
(This is a highlight reel; you can watch the full video of Ted’s speech here.)
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Filed at 8:34 am, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Cute:
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison — who famously declared Bill Clinton to be the nation’s “first black president” — is endorsing Barack Obama for president today, an Obama campaign source tells ABC News.
This comes as Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., also announces his support for Obama on Monday, at a rally in Washington.
In an October 1998 […]
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Filed at 8:21 am, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Keeping the Big Dog on the porch?
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Filed at 12:05 am, Monday January 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
By the way, here’s Obama’s victory speech from Saturday night in South Carolina, for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
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Filed at 10:13 pm, Sunday January 27th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Dick’s daughter endorses Romney.
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Filed at 6:20 pm, Sunday January 27th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Here’s Marc with the big scoop:
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS) will deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union on Monday.
And then Tuesday or Wednesday, she plans to endorse Barack Obama, numerous Democratic sources said.
The sources said that Sebelius decided some time ago that Obama was her candidate but decided to wait until after […]
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