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VEEPBEAT: Caroline’s Coming to Town
July 25, 2008 4:52 PM
ABC News' Howard L. Rosenberg reports: Sen. Barack Obama returns to the US this weekend and on Monday, Caroline Kennedy, the camera-shy co-chair of his vice presidential search team, is scheduled to be in Washington.
Coincidentally, that’s the day Obama’s prospective VP Chief of Staff, Patti Solis Doyle, has told her hires to report for work. Kennedy’s appearance in the capital is heralded in a last minute invitation to a reception circulated last night via an email from Miriam Sapiro, an attorney and former Clinton National Security Council aide.
"I am co-hosting an exciting event,” Sapiro wrote last night shortly before 11 p.m. in an email titled, “Come and Meet Caroline Kennedy” that forwarded this invitation.
“Please join me at a Cocktail Reception with Caroline Kennedy on Monday, July 28th at Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley’s beautiful home in Georgetown. The Kennedy family, and Caroline in particular, are playing important roles putting a Democrat back in the White House. This is a rare opportunity to meet Caroline and get her perspective on the election.” And in a breathless postscript, Sapiro wrote, “I apologize for the short notice but we just got the confirmation that she will be in DC on Monday.”
But if you’ve got visions of Camelot dancing in your head, hold on. If you want to attend the reception you’ll have to donate $1,000 to Obama’s campaign. And for those who want to join Miriam and her co-hosts for a small “VIP reception” with Kennedy before that, well, that will cost $2,300, the maximum individual donation allowable for the primary campaign under election law.
Sapiro, incidentally, is married to New York Times’ Stephen Labaton, one of the team of reporters who bylined the Feb. 21, 2008 front-page story that raised questions about Sen. John McCain’s ties to lobbyist Vicki Iseman.
She is also an initial signer of a letter circulating on the Internet from a group formed around the same time called “Jews For Obama.”
July 25, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (29)
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Caroline is going to run for either Senate or Representative.
I hope she moves to mass and takes over her uncle's place.
that would be awesome.
Posted by: dl | Jul 25, 2008 5:23:09 PM
THE KENNEDYS HAVE BEEN BRILLIANT AND HELPFUL TO AMERICANS ON ISSUES THAT MATTER. THEIR PROFOUND SURPORT FOR SEN. OBAMA IS YET ANOTHER SMARTNESS AND GOOD THEY ARE DOING TO AMERICA AT THE TIME AMARICA CAN´T AFFORD A MCCAIN OF ANTI WOMEN WITH ZERO VISION AND COMMON SENSE, A WORSE CANDIDATE THAN BUSH !
Posted by: JUNIOR | Jul 25, 2008 5:43:45 PM
Yea that would be awesome, at least she has'nt left some one under a bridge to die!!
Posted by: bombem | Jul 25, 2008 5:44:16 PM
I agree
Posted by: Mase | Jul 25, 2008 5:45:28 PM
Obama is going to pick TED KENNEDY for Vice
Posted by: dead end trip- | Jul 25, 2008 5:52:04 PM
Cost of Obama to travel to the Middle East making promises to them at the United States tax payers expense. $0.
Obama dissing American troops. PRICELESS.
Posted by: wol | Jul 25, 2008 5:55:02 PM
Great team and very great leadership, a leadership with vision and judgment. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.
Posted by: BKMC | Jul 25, 2008 6:00:19 PM
So Kennedy and Obama will hash out the final pick? Will Obama preempt McCain's choice? Poor JMac just can't catch a break.
Posted by: matthew | Jul 25, 2008 6:00:27 PM
I believe McCain's plan all along has been to announce just AFTER the chosen one has chosen (some)one.
Posted by: Beth | Jul 25, 2008 6:18:49 PM
John McCain is JEALOUS and he's CONSUMED with Obama's APPEAL.
John McCain Visited the Middle East to No Fanfare, at the Tax Payers EXPENSE and his Campaign nor his Supporters, had No Issues regarding John McCain's International Visits, he was Not President as well.
McCain Visted Germany, Britain and other European Countries, with No Fanfare and yet McCain is Pi##ed at Obama, to the Extent of making himself look like the Semi-Senile, Jack Ass,that he is !!!
McCain Recently Visted Canada, Columbia & Mexico, with No Fanfare or clamor, yet McCain, his Campaign and his Supporters Attack obama for using the Tax payers Money....
Oh Yeah, theres Issues about Obama and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the REASONS McCain, McCain's Campaign or Supporters ...ERRONEOUS COMPLAINTS...
Its Pure Undisputed Jealousy & Envy.
I wonder how the Republican Party Voted for this Lame Brain, I just can't See McCain as their Choice for the next President of the USA.
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John McCain is JEALOUS and he's CONSUMED with Obama's APPEAL.
John McCain Visited the Middle East to No Fanfare, at the Tax Payers EXPENSE and his Campaign nor his Supporters, had No Issues regarding John McCain's International Visits, he was Not President as well.
McCain Visted Germany, Britain and other European Countries, with No Fanfare and yet McCain is Pi##ed at Obama, to the Extent of making himself look like the Semi-Senile, Jack Ass,that he is !!!
McCain Recently Visted Canada, Columbia & Mexico, with No Fanfare or clamor, yet McCain, his Campaign and his Supporters Attack obama for using the Tax payers Money....
Oh Yeah, theres Issues about Obama and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the REASONS McCain, McCain's Campaign or Supporters ERRONEOUS COMPLAINTS...
Its Pure Undisputed Jealousy & Envy.
I wonder how the Republican Party Voted for this Lame Brain, I just can't See McCain as their Choice for the next President of the USA.
Comparing Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler...Thats a Laugh...
CBS NEWS
Obama is simply allowing Citizen McCain, to Hang himself via His Own Tongue, while he enjoys his International Tour of the MiddleEast & Europe. Please Continue Citizen McCain...Please, by Alll Means, Continue. McCain, You are doing Yourself In and its a Your Words that make this Self Implosion all possible...
Carry On, Senator.
CBS: It seemed like a great way to counter Obamamania. Sen. John McCain would board a helicopter in New Orleans today, skim quickly over the Gulf of Mexico and land on an oil rig -- a made-for-TV moment to highlight his call for offshore drilling, an issue that Republicans believe will be a big winner in November.
Then came Hurricane Dolly, a Category 2 storm that made a helicopter ride impossible. And then, improbably, a 600-foot oil tanker collided with a barge on the Mississippi River, creating a 12-mile oil slick and causing diesel fumes to waft over the city's French Quarter. The trip was off.
In this campaign, it seems, McCain just can't catch a break.
Through a series of missteps, gaffes and bad luck, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has endured a difficult week in what has been a choppy campaign. He now has no major event to offset Sen. Barack Obama's speech at Berlin's famed Victory Column, where a huge turnout is expected. Instead, he will be in Columbus, Ohio, speaking at a nighttime cancer event.
"An extra day spent in Ohio is not really a problem," senior aide Mark Salter said, insisting that a bit of bad luck does not make a trend, even as the campaign was scrambling to fill the time.
"There's a hurricane; we had to cancel an event," he said with a shrug after McCain spent a rainy day in northeast Pennsylvania attending a town hall meeting in Wilkes-Barre and a fundraiser, and commiserating with a couple at a grocery store in Bethlehem about the high price of food. "That's not something that's going to happen every day. I'm not going to worry about it."
Before his overseas trip, Obama faced questions about the wisdom of his pledge to remove U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office, should he be elected. But as the week began, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to endorse that timeline, and the Bush administration said that it supports a "time horizon" for withdrawing troops. Suddenly, it was McCain who was forced to explain his opposition to the withdrawal plan.
Meanwhile, Obama's trip to the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by stops in Jordan, Israel and Europe, created a media frenzy,
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Comment: Seperation of Church & State: I`ll be glad, when No Candidate Attends a Church, or Endorsed by Any Church, Mosque, Temple Or Synagouge.
Note: Most of your Presidents were Not Christian, they were Deist-Masonic.
I`ll be Glad when All Candidates say, in Debates ...
"I'm Implementing the Seperation of Church & State Rule" ...
1. My Religion is the Constitution.
2. My Religion, is to the (Republic) For which It Stands.
3. My Religions are the Senate, Congress, The State, This Nation and Its People.
You Hypocrites can Have Your Religions...
I have Enough on My Plate, as You can See.
4. "My Religion is this Great Nation, Its Diversed People and the Helath of this Nation's Economy and Continued Health, Wealth and Prosperity...
5. "Thank You and May the Spirits Guide & Guard this Great Nation and it's People"
Seperation of Chuch & State...For ALL Candidates.
They should not Attend Church...Anywhere.
Because the Pastor-Preacher can say Anything Controversial, at Any Time and this can Only Hurt the Politician, who may or may not have been in the Church, when the Pastor- Preacher says what he says.
All Politicians should use this Election as a sign...
Seperate, Church & State...Permamently.
PS: Politicians & Most People don`t Attend Church Religously, Devoutly..Anyway, Just Like Some of YOU...HYPOCRITES.
I`d Love to See Your Church and its Members.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/25/2008 11:24:52 AM
Comment: ---------------------------------
CBS NEWS
Obama is simply allowing Citizen McCain, to Hang himself via His Own Tongue, while he enjoys his International Tour of the MiddleEast & Europe. Please Continue Citizen McCain...Please, by Alll Means, Continue. McCain, You are doing Yourself In and its a Your Words that make this Self Implosion all possible...
Carry On, Senator.
CBS: It seemed like a great way to counter Obamamania. Sen. John McCain would board a helicopter in New Orleans today, skim quickly over the Gulf of Mexico and land on an oil rig -- a made-for-TV moment to highlight his call for offshore drilling, an issue that Republicans believe will be a big winner in November.
Then came Hurricane Dolly, a Category 2 storm that made a helicopter ride impossible. And then, improbably, a 600-foot oil tanker collided with a barge on the Mississippi River, creating a 12-mile oil slick and causing diesel fumes to waft over the city's French Quarter. The trip was off.
In this campaign, it seems, McCain just can't catch a break.
Through a series of missteps, gaffes and bad luck, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has endured a difficult week in what has been a choppy campaign. He now has no major event to offset Sen. Barack Obama's speech at Berlin's famed Victory Column, where a huge turnout is expected. Instead, he will be in Columbus, Ohio, speaking at a nighttime cancer event.
"An extra day spent in Ohio is not really a problem," senior aide Mark Salter said, insisting that a bit of bad luck does not make a trend, even as the campaign was scrambling to fill the time.
"There's a hurricane; we had to cancel an event," he said with a shrug after McCain spent a rainy day in northeast Pennsylvania attending a town hall meeting in Wilkes-Barre and a fundraiser, and commiserating with a couple at a grocery store in Bethlehem about the high price of food. "That's not something that's going to happen every day. I'm not going to worry about it."
Before his overseas trip, Obama faced questions about the wisdom of his pledge to remove U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office, should he be elected. But as the week began, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to endorse that timeline, and the Bush administration said that it supports a "time horizon" for withdrawing troops. Suddenly, it was McCain who was forced to explain his opposition to the withdrawal plan.
Meanwhile, Obama's trip to the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by stops in Jordan, Israel and Europe, created a media frenzy,
Posted By: Omaar @ 07/25/2008 11:24:18 AM
Comment: If I hear McCain Inaccurately Talk about "The Surge" Or say in his Lame, Stale and Dull Speeches, say "My Friends" as if he's Really talking to us, as a caring Friend, for the 1000th Time, in his Boring-Snoring Speeches...
I'll Campaign and Vote for either Ron Paul or Bob Barr and the Sad thing about that is....
I don't even Like Bob Barr !!!
Wait a Minute, Who in Hell Below or Heaven Above am I Kidding...
Barack Obama is Our Next President Of the USA !!!!
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/25/2008 11:20:32 AM
Comment: CBS NEWS
Obama is simply allowing Citizen McCain, to Hang himself via His Own Tongue, while he enjoys his International Tour of the MiddleEast & Europe. Please Continue Citizen McCain...Please, by Alll Means, Continue. McCain, You are doing Yourself In and its a Your Words that make this Self Implosion all possible...
Carry On, Senator.
CBS: It seemed like a great way to counter Obamamania. Sen. John McCain would board a helicopter in New Orleans today, skim quickly over the Gulf of Mexico and land on an oil rig -- a made-for-TV moment to highlight his call for offshore drilling, an issue that Republicans believe will be a big winner in November.
Then came Hurricane Dolly, a Category 2 storm that made a helicopter ride impossible. And then, improbably, a 600-foot oil tanker collided with a barge on the Mississippi River, creating a 12-mile oil slick and causing diesel fumes to waft over the city's French Quarter. The trip was off.
In this campaign, it seems, McCain just can't catch a break.
Through a series of missteps, gaffes and bad luck, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has endured a difficult week in what has been a choppy campaign. He now has no major event to offset Sen. Barack Obama's speech at Berlin's famed Victory Column, where a huge turnout is expected. Instead, he will be in Columbus, Ohio, speaking at a nighttime cancer event.
"An extra day spent in Ohio is not really a problem," senior aide Mark Salter said, insisting that a bit of bad luck does not make a trend, even as the campaign was scrambling to fill the time.
"There's a hurricane; we had to cancel an event," he said with a shrug after McCain spent a rainy day in northeast Pennsylvania attending a town hall meeting in Wilkes-Barre and a fundraiser, and commiserating with a couple at a grocery store in Bethlehem about the high price of food. "That's not something that's going to happen every day. I'm not going to worry about it."
Before his overseas trip, Obama faced questions about the wisdom of his pledge to remove U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office, should he be elected. But as the week began, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to endorse that timeline, and the Bush administration said that it supports a "time horizon" for withdrawing troops. Suddenly, it was McCain who was forced to explain his opposition to the withdrawal plan.
Meanwhile, Obama's trip to the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by stops in Jordan, Israel and Europe, created a media frenzy,
Posted By: Omaar @ 07/25/2008 11:19:57 AM
Comment: McCain has Not Visited (Afghanistan in 2 years), thats a Damn Fact and yet he Scolded Obama, regarding Iraq. McCain Visited, Iraq, Britain, France in March and recently Canada, Columbia & Mexico...
My Friends and yet All this BellyHoo about Obama, though McCain himself suggested and wanted to Tag Alongside Obama on his World Tour....
John, You asked for it and now , You must Live with it...The World Embraces him and Britain is going to be So Cranked up, to Meet and Greet the Next President of the USA !!!
You Got what you wanted John, You've just been (Shish Ca Bobbed) !!!
Most newspapers headlined Obama's pending arrival with the leftist daily Liberation giving a full front-page spread to "Obamania."
After Berlin, where Obama drew some 200,000 spectators for a speech Thursday, the conservative newspaper Le Figaro wrote that Obama is not looking to draw crowds in Paris "because he knows his huge popularity in our country could ill serve him with a part the American centrist electorate."
That was a reference to the negative image France had for years among some Americans because of Paris' vocal opposition to the invasion of Iraq.
Only one venue was on Obama's Paris schedule ??? the presidential Elysee Palace. A meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy was set for 5 p.m. to be followed by a joint news conference.
Sarkozy, a conservative, was rushing back from a summit in southwestern France to host Obama.
Although Sarkozy and Obama are on different sides of the political fence, the French leader seems to have a softspot for the US senator.
"Obama? He's my buddy," Le Figaro quoted the president as saying before Obama's arrival. "I am the only Frenchman who knows him."
Sarkozy, elected in 2007, first met Obama in 2006 while a candidate for the French presidency.
Sarkozy offered considerably less to Obama's Republican rival, John McCain during a March visit to Paris. After 45 minutes of talks, McCain was left on his own, fielding questions from reporters in the courtyard of the Elysee.
French supporters of Obama were excited about the visit.
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Posted by: o. | Jul 25, 2008 6:27:00 PM
John McCain is JEALOUS and he's CONSUMED with Obama's APPEAL.
John McCain Visited the Middle East to No Fanfare, at the Tax Payers EXPENSE and his Campaign nor his Supporters, had No Issues regarding John McCain's International Visits, he was Not President as well.
McCain Visted Germany, Britain and other European Countries, with No Fanfare and yet McCain is Pi##ed at Obama, to the Extent of making himself look like the Semi-Senile, Jack Ass,that he is !!!
McCain Recently Visted Canada, Columbia & Mexico, with No Fanfare or clamor, yet McCain, his Campaign and his Supporters Attack obama for using the Tax payers Money....
Oh Yeah, theres Issues about Obama and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the REASONS McCain, McCain's Campaign or Supporters ...ERRONEOUS COMPLAINTS...
Its Pure Undisputed Jealousy & Envy.
I wonder how the Republican Party Voted for this Lame Brain, I just can't See McCain as their Choice for the next President of the USA.
Posted by: o. | Jul 25, 2008 6:27:48 PM
There's some talk of McCain picking Jindal for VP, please make it so. Pllllleeeaaaaassseeeeeee
Pllllleeeaaaaassseeeeeee
Pllllleeeaaaaassseeeeeee
Nothing would cook McBush's goose quicker than that. The senile war monkey and the nut case. Whatta pair.
Posted by: JR | Jul 25, 2008 6:38:59 PM
Who cares what Caroline Kennedy thinks, she has not exactly spent her life devoted to politics, I use to respect Senator Ted Kennedy, it is sad to see him supporting someone like Obama. I guess they are casting a blind eye to Trinity Church and R. Wright.
Posted by: rogersm234 | Jul 25, 2008 6:41:08 PM
Caroline Kennedy was put into this sham of a commitée when the other Ted Kennedy hand-me-down had to quit because he got special favors from subprime loan bank Countrywide. She was put there to stop anyone from thinking Clinton should get a chance.
Same as Patti Sollis Doyle got the job to keep Clinton out of the mix. They are both examples of how Obama continues to disrespect a campaign who ran over him those final months of the primaries.
Obama looses this if he doesn't get wise to the fact he needs humility and Clinton to rally the troops and remind Dems that this is about getting GOP out, or "bridging the divide" as the campaign formulated early on.
352 superdelegates and Al Gore are wrong, and Caroline Kennedy in the middle of this farse have few chances of doing the right thing. Can she liberate herself from uncle Ted?
Posted by: Sylvia Johnsen | Jul 25, 2008 7:00:00 PM
I think McCain should wait until after Obama makes his pick. America needs time to ingest the laughter Obama will create when he announces his choice!
Posted by: david from texas | Jul 25, 2008 7:25:54 PM
Bobby Jhindal has declined to accept the VP position.
Posted by: david from texas | Jul 25, 2008 7:28:06 PM
They say Caroline will probably pick her boss billionaire Michael Bloomberg to be Dem VP and whose job is to privatize entire U.S. for profits$$$ and rid our system of government of "by and for the people."
Don't be surprise if and when Al Gore attempts to steal Dem nominee instead when Obama rids himself via scandals by Aug. convention.
And Dean and Pelosi can't shut Hillary out of the ballot process at Convention. President FDR needed 90+ delegates and the nominating process was open and fair in 1932. As a result FDR won on the 4th ballot and became President for 4 terms!!!
Posted by: francine223 | Jul 25, 2008 11:12:06 PM
They say Caroline will probably pick her boss billionaire Michael Bloomberg to be Dem VP and whose job is to privatize entire U.S. for profits$$$ and rid our system of government of "by and for the people."
Don't be surprise if and when Al Gore attempts to steal Dem nominee instead when Obama rids himself via scandals by Aug. convention.
And Dean and Pelosi can't shut Hillary out of the ballot process at Convention. President FDR needed 90+ delegates and the nominating process was open and fair in 1932. As a result FDR won on the 4th ballot and became President for 4 terms!!!
Posted by: francine223 | Jul 25, 2008 11:13:00 PM
Americans have become so generally nasty toward the decent that it makes one wonder how dumbed down we have become that we appreciate very little and critique everything. There are plenty of Americans around who are intested in the personal and public, philanthropic and political life of Caroline Kennedy. She is far more capable and accomplished than she is given credit, and represents a generational turn, from the usual crusty old pols, as a distinguished and discreet resource for vetting important personalities for the VP pick of the Obama campaign. While it's not rocket science to vet individuals, her name alone lends more to the process than any of her critics lend, that's for sure, and she is outside the beltway regirgitation of the usual suspects. Refreshing.
Posted by: Rita | Jul 26, 2008 12:02:13 AM
Remember she said: " We don't need a plan just hope and change."
Posted by: catleya | Jul 26, 2008 12:35:08 AM
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