Just wandered through the spin room here at South Carolina State and…nothing happened. Most of the spinners were…speechless, or trading restaurant recommendations in Charleston, or asking reporters, “What did you think?” This represents a major advance toward honesty in Democratic Party post-game politics. The spinners were unspun because nothing really happened in this debate. A [...]
In dead-tree TIME this week, Jay and I will have a story on Hillary Clinton’s strategy for dealing with the new challenge she faces from Barack Obama. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading down to South Carolina this morning, so that I can see all the Democratic candidates being put through their paces at tonight’s debate, tomorrow [...]
TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney. Pretty much all of the Democratic presidential candidates are attending tonight’s debate in South Carolina – the first major debate of the 2008 campaign season. The debate will be broadcast by MSNBC live from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg from 7 to [...]
In the continuing back and forth between Henry Waxman and the RNC comes a letter to Waxman from RNC lawyers containing “the current list of users who we believe are or were White House employees using RNC accounts for whom we have been able to identify active e-mail data on operational RNC servers”: A Waxman [...]
The press corps was not impressed, but I think the crowd was slightly more so. I predict many stories will incorporate the truly grim* weather as a symbol for McCain’s stolid cadences and generally flat aspect. There was even a slight break in the clouds at the end of the speech — where McCain got [...]
McCain has been on the Daily Show more than any other guest. This may be the toughest interview he’s gotten on any show. There’s approximately one minute of wackiness and sort of unbecoming chumminess, then Stewart goes after him hard on Iraq, Reid (Stewart may be the only “news” anchor to accurately characterize the majority [...]
Rahm Emanuel’s office has put out excerpts of the speech that he plans to give at Brookings this morning, one that is being touted as the first shot in the Democrats’ effort to put the various Bush Administration scandals into broader–and darker–context. These are themes you are likely to be hearing a lot: …I’ve also [...]
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I usually avoid press comment when I’m up here, but I felt so strongly about what Senator Reid said in the last couple of days, that I thought it was appropriate that I come out today and make a statement that I think needs to be made. Translation: I wanted to go [...]
For the first time ever, Toyota tops GM worldwide sales for the quarter. John Edwards is the first to jump on the issue, but I suspect we will be hearing more about it from the other candidates. P.S.: Mr. Swamp, who just last year traded in our (still running) 1988 Camry for a new one, [...]
