Okay, after three very intense. hours (plus) onstage moderating this health care forum, I really needed a massage and a margarita. Not in that order. So here, belatedly, is my take from the moderators’s chair: I suspected that my colleagues in the press filing center weren’t entirely thrilled at spending a Saturday in Las Vegas [...]
So it looks like Obama was not the only candidate to not wish the Edwardses well on stage in Las Vegas; Kucinich appears to have left that out of his TPs as well. But as far as Obama’s sentiments: I emailed both campaigns and they both confirmed that Obama has personally communicated his sympathy to [...]
Shorter Hillary: YOU CAN TELL I CARE ABOUT HEALTH CARE BECAUSE I AM SHOUTING ALL THE TIME. She is in favor of universal health care (now) and thinks it could take as little as… eight years to get there. She did this weird thing where she walked around during the question time rather than sit [...]
Richardson: Jolly Latino Elf who wants all the children to have health care. Coolest moment — no doubt whatsoever that mental health coverage should have parity with all other health coverage. Being a dark horse candidate gives one sympathy with the crazy people, I think. Wishes Elizabeth Edwards well within the first minute on stage. [...]
Karen phrased it about as tactfully as she could, but she did just ask Edwards, “Can voters trust you to be in it for the duration?” To which Edwards replied, “We’re in it for the duration.” A more important response came later, when he pointed out that he and Elizabeth are lucky: “A lot women [...]
