President ’08
If you want to understand why Barack Obama has been unable to further his climb in this year’s Presidential field since the initial burst of excitement that followed his entry into the race, look no further than his statement over the weekend to ABC news on why he doesn’t wear a flag-pin on the campaign…
According to NBC News, after a moment of contention, Senator Hillary Clinton offered some assistance to Randall Rolph, an Iowa resident who questioned her vote in favor of labeling Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist organization…Clinton accused the man of being a plant who had been sent to ask the question, to which he…
Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D) has quietly brought President William J. Clinton’s former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger onto her campaign as an advisor – unpaid for now, but let’s keep an eye on those campaign finance reports. In April, 2005, Sandy Berger pleaded guilty to removing and destroying documents from the National…
John Podhoretz, who has been playing the Stop Hillary tune since before it made the charts (and giving her candidacy the tone of inevitability from before the first notes), doesn’t get those enigmatic conservative religiosos: The conduct of Religious Right leaders has been entirely baffling. They’ve have several candidates they could have rallied around as…
With the accelerated Presidential Primary schedule, there is much debate about whether the traditional, smaller-state early contests will matter as much as they have in the past. In reality, we won’t know the answer to this question until it’s all over, including the shouting. That said, the Des Moines Register‘s latest poll of likely Iowa…
From the Associated Press, via Drudge…Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday. “Newt is not running,” spokesman Rick Tyler said. “It is legally impermissible for him to continue…
What to make of this? Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year’s election, warning that it could boost the GOP’s efforts to hold on to the White House. Discussing the possibility of a new nightmare assault while campaigning in New Hampshire, Clinton also insisted she is the…
Peter Woolley, political science professor from Fairleigh Dickinson University, began his op-ed on the 2008 Presidential race published in Monday’s Projo with this sentence…Don’t assume that 2008 will represent an easy Democratic win over the Republicans.The article is mostly about how a third party candidate might change the dynamics of the Presidential race, upsetting the…
I know it’s early, but a primary (ha ha) point here is to put certain quarters of the Republican coalition on notice that the idea that “George W. Bush screwed things up so badly, we never stood a chance” will not be accepted as an excuse for losing the 2008 Presidential election. From Rasmussen’s latest…
In case you missed, it David Broder talked to Fred Thompson and got some insight into what concerns the pending (c’mon already!) candidate: The approach Thompson says he’s contemplating is one that will step on many sensitive political toes. When he says “we’re getting a free ride” fighting a necessary war in Iraq with an…
