From Time’s Amy Sullivan It was an emotional night in Clinton-land, with more than a few of her friends crying in the Clinton skybox. The former president tried to hold it together for most of Hillary’s speech, but by the end he was wiping away tears as well. After she concluded, he kept repeating, “She [...]
From Time’s Amy Sullivan Listening to Mark Warner’s keynote address, it certainly sounded like he went after Bush, McCain and the GOP. (He pulled off the attack-dog role better than did Kathleen Sebelius, who mostly sounded like a fourth-grade teacher who was very disappointed with George and John.) But overall, the speech didn’t strike me [...]
Reggie Love is Barack Obama’s right hand man: curator of his iPod, carrier of his hand sanitizer and disposer of unwanted brewskis. It’s a job he prepared for by playing for playing football and basketball at Duke — a team he was a walk-on for. I managed to catch him on the phone this morning, [...]
Denver, Co. I was thrilled to see Ted Kennedy up and about, and passionate as always. I thought Michelle Obama was spectacular in every possible way…but I had this one little problem with the speechifying on the first night of the Democratic National Convention: the word used most frequently was dream, and that is not [...]
Tonight’s her big night. So where do things stand with her supporters? Nancy Gibbs and I spent some time on the convention floor yesterday talking to delegates for this story. For all the noise you are hearing outside the convention hall (which is being amplified by the McCain campaign), the sense I got was that [...]
That is the new distinguishing characteristic of the fancy parties at the Democratic Convention this year, thanks to the congressional ethics rules that have gone into effect since the last one, which allow members of Congress to attend lobbyist-sponsored events only if they can be labeled as “receptions”– that is, if only finger food is [...]
The Obama camp comes out with what’s probably the cheekiest ad of the cycle. I have no idea how effective this could be, but it has a good beat and you can dance to it.
Carville declares the convention so far is a bust. But while it’s true that the first night was more about warmth than heat (you can read David Von Drehle’s account here), Obama officials are promising that the gears are about to shift. And ironically enough, given all the backstage drama, the campaign is counting on [...]
