Posted on June 19th, 2008 by political buzz
The McCain campaign is keeping up its terrorism offensive against Obama with another morning conference call leveling some nasty charges at the Dem nominee over his support for the SCOTUS decision to grant Habeas to Gitmo detainees. The call featured McCain national security adviser Randy Scheunemann as well as surprise guest Fred Thompson to speak […]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by political buzz
It is a dance filled with drama and false leads that is being played out by Dem nominee Obama and prospective Veep Hillary. She is out of the race but certainly not out of the picture, as she again drops subtle hints about her willingness to accept the second slot on the ticket and Obama […]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by political buzz
Is this it for the continuously hard-nosed and feisty Democratic primary struggle? Has the esteemed DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee managed to accomplish what nearly five months of voting has not?
After a Friday filled with back door negotiations on the fate of Florida and Michigan that were ultimately unable to come up with a deal […]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by political buzz
For anyone wondering about potential compromises emerging from the public rhetoric of the Clinton campaign, today’s conference call with Howard Wolfson, Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy shut the door on that thought. Info from the inside of Hillary’s camp has most advisers accepting that not all of the delegates from Michigan and Florida will be […]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by political buzz
The monumental DNC rules committee meeting tomorrow is all the rage in the media and within the Clinton campaign today. Wolfson, Ickes and other advisers held a conference call at 12 noon (more on that later) with the rundown on what to expect tomorrow and how much the Clinton camp will push to get every […]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by political buzz
The Scott McClellan tell-all has hijacked the media storyline this week, pushing the happenings on the trail off the front page. And why not? The McClellan memoir is a bona fide bombshell, piling up more negative accusations on a Bush presidency whose sole job of late is to stay out of the way of GOP […]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by political buzz
With the Democratic primary calendar all but exhausted and chances for some sort of last-second win slim to none, the question in front of Hillary Clinton is now all about her post-presidential run future. Unless Obama caves and decides t pick HRC as his running mate, she will be left a battered ex-candidate with little […]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by political buzz
If the rhetoric and side jaunts to places like Missouri and Iowa didn’t make it abundantly clear already, Obama’s major shift in focus and hard campaigning for November in Florida today makes it the real deal: Obama believes he has now won the nomination fair and square, with the requisite pledged delegates in his pocket, […]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by political buzz
Today’s contests in Oregon and Kentucky are of relatively minimal importance - save for the certainty that Obama will officially pass the required delegate threshold needed to claim victory in the primary fight with Hillary. He’ll be in Iowa tonight to do just that, ringing in the official beginning of his general campaign against McCain […]
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by political buzz
Word from the Clinton campaign is that Hillary is set to be in South Florida for “fundraisers” on Wednesday, the day after Obama declares victory in the race after a probable win in Oregon and another pile of delegates. She will be in Kentucky tomorrow, probably soaking in another big - yet virtually unimportant - […]
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