Cedar Rapids–I only have a few minutes to post here, but Obama has just completed his first real campaign event, a town meeting in a high school gymnasium. Large audience, natch…But really striking for these reasons: –very low key and serious. No hokey intro music. No stump speech. Just Q & A. “The country’s in [...]
Back inside from the Obama rally, hoping to regain the use of my feet, checking around for reactions…and look at this from The Corner. Aside from the fact that we’re in Illinois, not New Hampshire… And more from Lopez.
The Obama websiteis streaming live TV of the Senator’s announcement…I’m about to leave this clean, well-heated press filing center to brave arctic cold and watch the speech that I’ve just read: very inspiring, as expected, not many details, as expected…I”ll have more to say about Obama’s first day of campaigning later today, after he starts [...]
As a newcomer to this blogging business, I’ve been interested in the Edwards dust-up. As readers know, I’ve been critical of the tone of the left-wing blogosphere in the past. But I think that Yglesias raises an important point here and anyone reading the comments section of any Swampland post knows that troglyditic right-wing cavedwellers [...]
