Tag Archives: 2008-presidency
Clinton campaign kills negative story
September 30, 2007 – 12:46 pm
From Politico’s Clinton campaign kills negative story: “Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton’s aides…offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned [...]
The world after George W. Bush
July 23, 2007 – 11:38 am
From The world after George W. Bush: “To cope with the strategic situation Bush will be leaving, his successor will have to disavow the false assumptions underlying many of his policies.”
Links for May 17, 2007
May 17, 2007 – 10:59 am
Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Gets It Right: During the most recent debate, Congressman Ron Paul said that September 11th was blowback for our actions in the Middle East, which is the first time that I can think of when a national politician (and a Republican no less!) has actually told the American public the [...]
Links for May 16, 2007
May 16, 2007 – 11:00 am
The Realignment of America:“It has become a commonplace to say that population has been flowing from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt, from an industrially ailing East and Midwest to an economically vibrant West and South. But the actual picture of recent growth, as measured by the 2000 Census and the census estimates for [...]
The Republican Presidential Candidates’ Debate
May 7, 2007 – 09:52 am
Another person over on YouTube has uploaded the Republican Presidential Candidates’ Debate that aired last week. Like the Dems’ Debate, this one is broken up into ten ~10-minute clips, making it easy to watch over time. And like the Dems’ Debate, I recommend watching it. I know it’s ridiculously early in the election cycle, but [...]
Sen. Mike Gravel Kept Out of NH Debates
April 30, 2007 – 01:58 pm
Watch the video Sen. Mike Gravel Censored: “On March 14, Sen. Mike Gravel, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, addressed big media’s attempts to censor his campaign.” [FYI: On all YouTube links, you can now hover over the link, wait for the Snap Preview window to come up, and then play the video directly [...]
Democratic Presidential Debates
April 28, 2007 – 02:02 pm
If you missed the Democratic Presidential Debate this past week, a gentleman who goes by the name of “acurajustin” has uploaded the whole thing to YouTube in managable 10 minute clips. If you don’t have an hour and a half to sit down and watch the whole thing, the clips make it easy to spread [...]
How Mitt Romney’s corporate success explains his flip-flops
March 2, 2007 – 11:13 am
From How Mitt Romney’s corporate success explains his campaign—and his flip-flops: “It’s not surprising that Romney has fled from his public record and is running to the right. What’s surprising is that the man who has usually been so competent is proving to be rather poor at execution, and timing. He’s moving hard right at [...]
