Filed at 5:35 pm, Tuesday August 19th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Biden Says it’s Not Him
The Hotline reports:
As Joe Biden left his home a few minutes ago with golf clubs, NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli asked him where he was going to be on Saturday.
Biden replied, “Here” and pointed down to his driveway.
As he pulled out of the driveway in the driver’s seat of his car, he said […]
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Filed at 12:33 pm, Tuesday August 19th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Update: More over at the Illinois political blog Capitol Fax.
Marc Ambinder wrote yesterday afternoon on his blog, “Springfield, Illinois wouldn’t be a bad place to host a major political announcement.”
The Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet will surely forgive me for copying and pasting this entire short item from her blog, because it’s so interesting:
The Obama team, […]
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Filed at 11:16 am, Tuesday August 19th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
I mentioned this item in the asides box on the front page of the site yesterday, but perhaps it’s worth blogging about it at length here.
Bob Woodward’s fourth book on Bush, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008,” will be out September 8th. Recall that the Watergate figure’s first two books on the […]
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Filed at 12:12 am, Tuesday August 19th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
He won’t wait for the convention to announce a VP:
Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said.
Mr. Obama’s deliberations remain remarkably closely held. Aides […]
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Filed at 2:42 pm, Monday August 18th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
The Democratic convention starts one week from today. Will Obama let the drama build and wait until then before he announces who his vice presidential pick will be?
Maybe that would be a smart move, especially considering that most of the ‘bounce’ that candidates have traditionally gotten out of the conventions comes from the VP announcement. […]
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Filed at 10:45 am, Sunday August 17th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
So, everyone is buzzing about McCain and Obama’s appearance at Rick Warren’s evangelical Saddleback church on Saturday night. The truth is, it was much more important for McCain than it was for Obama.
For Obama, it was a chance to pick up a few votes in a constituency that Democrats don’t traditionally count on, and he […]
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Filed at 11:00 am, Saturday August 16th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
McCain raised $27M in July (with 600,000 donors overall, the campaign has not said how many of these were added in July). This is up from $22M the month before. He ended the month with $21.4M in cash on hand (made irrelevant by the RNC’s $75M in CoH).
Obama raised $51M in July (with 2,000,000 donors […]
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Filed at 5:08 pm, Friday August 15th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
John McCain, on July 24th, 2008, referring to Iraq as “the first major conflict since 9/11″:
“… We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world.”
Ummmm, okay, if […]
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Filed at 11:10 am, Friday August 15th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Obama’s campaign recently announced it has a record-smashing 2 million plus individual all-time donors. McCain’s campaign is now bragging that they’d finally broken through the 600,000 mark.
In other words, more than three times the number of Americans that have donated to John McCain have donated to Barack Obama. Even when you add in all the […]
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Filed at 9:20 am, Friday August 15th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
…That Obama picked Sebelius. It was a good dream. And then I woke up.
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Filed at 11:37 pm, Thursday August 14th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Tremayne at Open Left has a pretty good calendar on the possible announce days left, if Obama is going to announce his Vice Presidential running mate before the Democratic National Convention begins:
Friday, August 15: Obama still on vacation in Hawaii
Saturday, August 16: Obama in Nevada and California
Sunday, August 17: Maybe but big day for Olympic […]
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Filed at 10:52 am, Thursday August 14th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
I swear, YouTube users are making some of the best ads this cycle– even better than many made by the official campaigns… Thankfully with the power of viral video, there’s a chance to get them seen even if they aren’t shown on television.
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Filed at 4:41 pm, Wednesday August 13th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Fox News:
Sources say former Secretary of State Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol told FOX News exclusively on Thursday.
“He may well give a speech at the Democratic convention explaining his endorsement of Obama,” Kristol said, citing inside sources.
“This is not an absolute done deal, but […]
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Filed at 4:10 pm, Wednesday August 13th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Evan Bayh (D-IN), who bought the Bush Administration’s lies about Iraq hook line and sinker five years ago has now said:
“You just hope that we haven’t soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic, because Iran is a […]
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Filed at 1:39 pm, Wednesday August 13th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
The chances that Barack Obama will choose either Virginia Governor Tim Kaine or Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana are dwindling.
After it was announced that Mark Warner would be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in late August, I wrote that:
By choosing Warner, a red state Democrat as the keynote speaker, Obama is putting […]
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