Democrats are salivating at the prospect of Michael Bloomberg being asked to join Obama as his running mate. Much of the chatter is about Obama's need to shore up the Jewish vote - deeply unhappy over the Reverend Wright business - if he is to take the White House. Bloomberg introduced Obama without endorsing him before the candidates speech on economic policy
at Cooper Union in New York, reviving memories of their breakfast meeting at a NY diner four
months ago.
Interest in Bloomberg's future is at fever pitch among the chatterati but Stu
Loeser, his press secretary, hosed down the idea of
the vice presidency, saying, "He's trying to shape and influence the
campaigns, he's not trying to join one."
Talking Points Memo has performed an invaluable service knitting together key
moments of Hillary's cv enhancing Bosnia sniper story. They have assembled tape of Hillary speaking on the subject on
different occasions, the key video from the trip, what
eyewitnesses have to say and what her aides said. Here in one place you have Hillary, people who were actually there and no Republicans or Obama types lining up to deliver a gratutious kick or two. Sit back and enjoy.
Hillary is pumping
the Jeremiah Wright business as much all she can, while husband Bill puts it about that only she and McCain are patriotic enough to run for president. But as consistently brilliant Talkingpointsmemo.com points out, her latest remarks that Wright "would not have been my pastor" were disingenuous at best.
It has taken a former Democratic nominee, George McGovern,to pose - and dare to answer - the question that has been hovering above countless dinner parties for months now. Is it more of a handicap when running to be US President to be black or to be a woman?
Get ready for a nasty presidential fight when Obama snags the nomination. A McCain staffer has been fired for Twittering a link to the Obama Wright video seen below. Soren Dayton was kicked off the campaign after texting a link to the “Is Obama Wright” video on the Twitter micro blog site.
Bill Maher is back on form. Listen to him demolish John McCain for his "senior moment" when he confused Sunni an Shia. He tells us that most Americans know John McCain is the one who should answer that phone ringing at 3am because they know he’ll be up trying to pee...
Remember Hillary's really effective "3am ad", about the phone ringing in the White House with some crisis or other and needing somebody already "tested" to answer it. Well here's Casey Knowles the little girl in the video, now all grown up, who it turns out is an Obama volunteer. She has made her own video rejecting what she calls "the politics of fear".
John Edwards
has been lying low since dropping out of the race in late January after a dismal showing in his native South Carolina. Here he tells Jay Leno that he has been using his tractor to clear brush and small trees off his land (what is it about American politicians that they love "clearing brush"? Ronald Reagan used to do it at his Santa Barbara ranch, Bush does it in Crawford and now Edwards is at it in Posh Chapel Hill North Carolina), home-schooling his kids and playing hoops with Obama. But he's still not ready to say who he intends to endorse, Obama or Clinton.
Obama called for a dialogue on race to begin. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and his “Senior Black Correspondent” Larry Wilmore give a flavour of how that discussion might go
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." --Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.
Hillary has been desperately burnishing her credentials as world leader in waiting boasting that she endured "sniper fire" after landing at an airport in Tuzla in 1996. She said, "We just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles" she miss-recalled. The truth is easier to discern in this photo, taken on the airstrip that date. The Washington post's fact checker gives her four pinocchios for telling this whopper.
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