By Larry Santana, Paul Gackle and Kim Geiger A former Clinton campaign aide has launched a web petition, voteboth.com., in hopes of reviving the notion of a Democratic “dream ticket.” The site doesn’t specify who would be on the top of the ticket. But it was sponsored by something called Democrats United for Clinton—slash–Obama ’08. [...]
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The race card
March 12, 2008 – 9:24 pm
First, it was Peggy Noonan. Now, it’s Geraldine Ferraro. What is it with white women using the race card to demean Barack Obama’s candidacy? Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket with Walter Mondale — the first and only woman to ever hold a VP bid — said this to a [...]
Education and the youth vote
March 9, 2008 – 9:33 pm
It’s a question my parents, grandparents and teachers have been asking me for years. Why don’t young people vote? And then the Iowa caucuses arrived. Record turnout of young people delivered the state to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and suddenly, the question from my elders changed. “Why Obama?” they asked. Is it his age? Is [...]
Speeches or solutions? I take speeches.
February 21, 2008 – 7:52 pm
In the wake of the 2004 election, Slate’s Chris Suellentrop said it best: “Vision without details beats details without vision.” Despite her decades of political experience and staff of campaign experts, Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to get this. In a speech to Ohioans yesterday, Clinton referred to herself as, “someone who’s not just in the [...]
Huckabee “not smart enough”
February 13, 2008 – 7:30 pm
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 [...]
