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Biden, beginning to fight
(CNN) — Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, Barack Obama’s choice for vice president, accepted the nomination Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. He was introduced by his son Beau Biden, Delaware attorney general. Sen. Joe Biden: You know, folks, my dad used to have an expression. He’d say, “A father knows…
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Bill, again
You know, I–I love this, and I thank you, but we have important work to do tonight. I am here first to support Barack Obama. And second — and second, I’m here to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden, though as you will soon see, he doesn’t need any help from me. I love…
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A bit of Kerry . . .
Senator John Kerry at the 2008 DNC I love Sen. John Kerry’s speech from last night. For the full speech watch the above video, is here but here’s an excerpt: I have known and been friends with John McCain for almost 22 years. But every day now I learn something new about candidate McCain. To…
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. . . considering the import of history
King’s “Dream” speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great…
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Shades of Nixon
The campaign of John McCain for president of the United States has been lurking in the gutter these past several weeks. Karl Rove’s henchmen, when they took over the faltering McCain campaign, they quickly surmised that they could not win on the issues. The American voters would not trust Republicans to fix the mess the…
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GOP Veepstakes
Word is out this evening that Sen. McCain is finalizing his vice-presidential pick tonight. Because we may know as soon as tomorrow who he’s chosen, it’s now or never for another round of veepstakes. If I were advising McCain, here’s who would be on my suggested short list: Tom Ridge Kay Bailey Hutchinson As a…
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Hillary’s speech
Hillary needed to do three things last night: (1) Tell her supporters not to vote for John McCain (2) Tell her supporters why they should vote Democrat. (3) Tell her supports why they should support Obama, in particular. In my view, Hillary did the first two and didn’t even attempt the third. Her rationale for…
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But I was a POW!
It is obvious in this campaign that you cannot question McCain about anything without him bringing up the fact that he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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A wanderer arrives
When I was a young newspaper reporter (a nerdy one, at that) at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., one of the journalists I looked up to was Michael Powell. Mr. Powell was then at New York Newsday but he had passed through The Record in what was becoming an itinerant career, with stops at Newsday,…
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Joe, himself
Joe Biden in Springfield, IL Sen. Joseph Biden’s remarks in Springfield, Ill., Saturday, after being introduced by Sen. Barack Obama as his vice presidential running mate. Well, it’s great to be here! On the steps of the Old State House in the land of Lincoln. President Lincoln once instructed us to be sure to put…