« May 2008 | Main | July 2008 »

Can Democrats Get Iraq Mo-Jo Back?

FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, from ABC's The Note. Conventional wisdom for basically forever has been that the more the campaign is about national security, the better it is for Sen. John McCain’s prospects. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll,...

Continue reading "Can Democrats Get Iraq Mo-Jo Back?"

June 30, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (47)

Clark’s Clunker

FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, from ABC's The Note. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark went where no Democrat really truly wants to go on Sunday -- calling into question, in surprisingly sharp language, Sen. John McCain’s military record. I’ve pasted the unvarnished...

Continue reading "Clark’s Clunker"

June 30, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (310)

Peripatetic Pursuits

FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, from ABC's The Note. Hi everyone, Rick Klein here from The Note at ABCNews.com, subbing in for Jake Tapper this week -- which the Obama campaign is playing as patriot’s week, in honor of the Fourth...

Continue reading "Peripatetic Pursuits "

June 30, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (78)

Obama Abroad

ABC News has learned that later this summer, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will travel to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee visited Iraq once before, in 2006. He will be visiting...

Continue reading "Obama Abroad"

June 28, 2008 in Obama, Barack | Permalink | User Comments (222)

Unity

Unity, unity unity. Latifah sang about it. U. N. I. T. Y. ("Who you callin' a ....") And then Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton visited Unity, NH, as well today. Read about that HERE. Watch our World News report...

Continue reading "Unity"

June 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (50)

Disunity in Unity

Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said all the right things today in their unity show in Unity, NH -- as if reading from a checklist. (For Clinton: praise Obama, say he'd be a good commander-in-chief, tell supporters...

Continue reading "Disunity in Unity"

June 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (192)

Grover Norquist: Obama is "Kerry With a Tan"

Conservative activist Grover Norquist dropped by The Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau and decided a classy and appropriate way to convey his opposition to the liberal positions of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was to call the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee...

Continue reading "Grover Norquist: Obama is "Kerry With a Tan""

June 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (69)

Live from Unity

One of the warm-up acts here in Unity, NH: former Governor/current Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen, who talked about why she stayed neutral in the race earlier this year. Shaheen's husband Billy, of course, wasn't so neutral, having served as a...

Continue reading "Live from Unity"

June 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (27)

Clinton, Obama, and Unity

I’m on the Obama campaign plane right now. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, just got on. They match. He’s wearing a white shirt and baby blue tie, her pantsuit is the same color. They just sat...

Continue reading "Clinton, Obama, and Unity"

June 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (171)

McCain Gambles with Awkward Joke

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked by columnist Jon Ralston why he didn't choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign. "I appreciate his support," McCain said. "As you know, the...

Continue reading "McCain Gambles with Awkward Joke "

June 27, 2008 in 2008: Republicans, Current Affairs, John McCain, McCain, John | Permalink | User Comments (184)