Senator Clinton’s campaign’s accusation on Monday that Barack Obama has lifted language from other politicians, calling it plagiarism, shows how rhetoric is playing a vital role in this presidential election.
It also shows that Clinton’s campaign has targeted Obama’ dominant factor: the way he uses simple words to inspire millions of people. But is that a [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Plagiarism and the Power of Simple Words
February 19, 2008
Substituting One Bush For Another
February 18, 2008
It may be too hazardous to sell a President Bush and McCain combo right now, but daddy works fine.
Former President George H.W. Bush endorsed John McCain’s presidential campaign this Monday, a move McCain hinted at on Friday. But the President’s Day aspect had a nice touch to it, so Bush used the holiday to speak [...]
China’s Top Political Couple Has a Love Story, Too.
February 16, 2008
On Valentines day CBS 60 Minutes examined the love stories of American public figures, including Barack and Michelle Obama. During their one minute and twenty five second interview, Michelle described how the office romance began. She thought they’d be friends. He said Michelle rejected him for a date at first and then he [...]
President Bush defends inaction on Darfur
February 15, 2008
The BBC’s top page today showcases an interview in which President Bush defends his decision not to go into Darfur.
He called it a “seminal decision” not to intervene with force, taken partly out of the desire not to send US troops into another Muslim country.
Other than sounding more and more like a moderate with each [...]
On an island in the sun…
February 14, 2008
While Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claims he’s not smart enough to be intentionally trying to remain in the race just to block John McCain from becoming the official Republican presidential nominee, nobody can question his intelligence when it comes to picking good spots to do paid speaking engagements.
Huckabee will be in the Cayman [...]
Huckabee “not smart enough”
February 13, 2008
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appeared in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Saturday afternoon. Blitzer asked Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, who trails John McCain by an insurmountable margin of pledged delegates, if his strategy at this point is simply to prevent McCain from getting the delegate majority he needs to become the official [...]
Ian Sherr tries to find the delegates…
February 12, 2008
Published Feb. 12, 2008 in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Count the Delegates, If You Can
by Ian Sherr
Just when I thought I had figured out why the Democratic Party has superdelegates, Nancy Pelosi comes along and says I have got it all backward.
“The superdelegates were established to give many more people at the grassroots level the opportunity [...]
What Side Are You On?
February 5, 2008
Kimberly Geiger asks An Important Question
Published in Capitol Weekly
As Super Tuesday dawns in the state with the greatest trove of convention delegates, members of California’s Democratic congressional delegation face an uncomfortable choice in backing Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Some have decided that making no endorsement at all is the better part of wisdom.
“I just [...]
EAST COAST ARROGANCE TRACKER
February 5, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 — NBC News political director Chuck Todd
needs to get his time zones straight. In his hour-by-hour guide to
Super Tuesday, Todd lists all primary and caucus close dates in
Eastern Time. That’s fine. Out here in California, we’re quite
accustomed to subtracting three hours from published times.
But when it comes to Alaska’s Democratic caucus, [...]
Tales from the polls
February 5, 2008
It used to be simple.
Then I moved from the East Coast to California and everything changed. I found myself voting on propositions most people have never heard of but become experts on once inside the voting booth. But that has turned out to be the simplest part of the process.
Today, near Berkeley’s campus for the [...]
