COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fiscal conservatives often have a tough time campaigning in front of interest groups, since most interest groups want the same thing–more government money–that fiscal conservative candidates want to limit. So it was that John McCain arrived at The Ohio State University Thursday, before a crowd of yellow-clad supporters of the Lance Armstrong [...]
Here’s a link to my story, and to Callie Shell’s fabulous photos. Afterward, the candidate made a surprise pop-in to a dinner with the traveling press corps and his campaign staff in downtown Berlin, and had a celebratory vodka martini (olives, very dry). UPDATE: Baggage call tomorrow is at 10 a.m. As my grandmother would [...]
As I read, and then watched, Barack Obama’s powerful and well-turned speech in Berlin, I couldn’t help but wonder if the Senator and/or his speechwriter were consciously invoking John Lennon with the line (and title) “A World That Stands As One”. My guess is not. But this verse from Imagine was the first thing that [...]
Washington Bureau intern Will Schultz filed this quick report from the Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning with House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO): – Energy, energy, energy. It looks like Republicans are going to be all about it this year. Blunt said opinion on drilling “has completely flipped,” and that the GOP has got [...]
As we all huddle around our televisions to watch the German masses cheer, as we prepare to read yet another magazine cover story featuring Obama’s awesome good-lookingness, as we remind ourselves once again that this is a once-in-a-generation change election, a couple points to remember: 1. The American news media has a coverage problem, with [...]
What’s your guess as to what the official crowd estimate will be in Berlin? Here again is how the candidate was managing expectations in his back and forth with reporters aboard his plane this morning: BO: I did not realize, my staff basically just told me, that this space is bigger than I realized, so [...]
Ezra has a hilariously unexpected comparison–the juvenility of the McCain and Howard Dean campaigns. Putting radio ads on in the U.S. towns called Berlin is more dopey than funny and raises the question: In the welter of gaffes and bad news, have the McCain folks gone goofy?
While there was no mob scene at the Western Wall (per the post below this one), there appears to be the potential for one right below my hotel window. The reason: I’m on the second floor, just above the rear entrance where Obama’s motorcade is parked, and people are quickly figuring it out. In the [...]
Clearing security at the Tel Aviv airport is such an achievement that I intend to put it on my resume. But now, as commenter Trifecta put it in an earlier thread, ich bin ein Swamplander. Some of the reporters traveling with Obama were surprised upon landing to discover their editors in something of a frenzy. [...]
