John McCain has a half a point in today’s assault on Barack Obama’s alleged national security inexperience: It wouldn’t be a bad idea for Obama to visit the war zones, meet with our troops and their leaders–as soon as the nomination fight is over. There’s a lot to learn, if you ask the right questions. [...]
Scott McClellan being asked about Richard Clarke’s book (3/22/04): Q Why do you think he’s doing this? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising [...]
On a conference call just now, Obama staffers just commented on the prospect of protesters at Saturday’s DNC Rules Committee meeting: “We don’t think this should turn into a spectacle.” They also characterized the proposition of seating half of Michigan and Florida as “more than generous” and a “concession” — though they, obviously, aren’t actually [...]
Poniewozik’s take.
Returning to the Senate after a presidential campaign can be, well, awkward. A webstory out today on the landscape Hillary might face if/when she returns to the Senate.
What would you ask? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2008 press@hillaryclinton.com *** MEDIA ADVISORY*** Harold Ickes, Tina Flournoy and Howard Wolfson Hold Conference Call TODAY to Discuss Saturday’s DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting WHO: Harold Ickes, Senior Advisor Tina Flournoy, Rules and Bylaws Committee Member Howard Wolfson, Communications Director WHAT: Conference call to discuss [...]
And he even comes with a ready-made dKos handle, Matrix: “This doesn’t sound like Scott. It really doesn’t. Not the Scott McClellan I’ve known for a long time. … It sounds like somebody else. It sounds like a left-wing blogger.” And yet I doubt McClellan will be speaking at “Netroots Nation” come summer. The book [...]
So, what exactly will the much anticipated Rules & Bylaws Committee be discussing this Saturday in Washington? Some juicy tidbits from the schedule being circulated: Florida has two challenges before the committee, one to reinstate its superdelegates as the state contends that the committee did not have the jurisdiction to remove those votes; and two, [...]
The robotic former press secretary pulls no punches in his new book, according to the Washington Post account of it: Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at [...]
