He started out as if he were doing stand-up, bounding on stage, shouting hello to Des Moines, Iowa and… Chicago, a reference to the rumor that Obama had supporters bussed down from Illinois. (The Obama people deny this.) Then he said that since Giuliani got Robertson’s endorsement, “there’s an ‘amen’ in every sentence he says, [...]
Richardson thanks Iowa for “making democracy look good.” Then he informed the audience, “You’re going to hear a lot of speeches tonight, the last one a very good one.” Guess he got the excerpts. He said America “shouldn’t be just the world’s policeman, it should be the world’s conscience,” which had the unfortunate effect of [...]
Reporters here are already kindly disposed to Obama because for the first hour we were here, he supplied the only food available to us: fortune cookies. Here was my fortune:
Before the speeches started, two of Edwards’ senior staffers were touring the press filing center. Someone asked for a speech preview. One of the staffers rolled his eyes: “The expectations are so high for him…” I wondered if that was something he actually thought or something he wanted us to think he thought. Having seen [...]
Of the few dozen reporters gathered this morning in the Smithson room of the Veteran’s Auditorium, the foreign press was probably the least confused by the presentation of the caucus process. They were curious, however, if the rather convoluted system system that had just been explained to them (which includes provisions for “games of chance” [...]
