Posted for Amy Sullivan It’s three nights into the Democratic Convention and a pattern is emerging. A number of speakers have made reference to their personal friendship with John McCain, carefully noting how much they admire him, before going on to criticize him. And that’s effective to a point–”more in sorrow than in anger” plays [...]
Posted for Amy Sullivan Joe Biden may not be the son of a mill-worker, but he reminded us he is the son of Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, just in case you forgot he’s Irish. I love that when he told the story of coming home after getting beaten up as a kid and having her [...]
Posting for Amy Sullivan, again. I agree with you, Karen–that version of John Kerry might actually have won in 2004. Earlier this evening I was reading through his acceptance speech. That year, Kerry mentioned Bush exactly twice in the whole speech. Instead of going after Republicans directly, he constantly referred to the elusive “they.” He [...]
I was feeling sorry for John Kerry having to follow Bill Clinton in the speaking lineup, but he electrified the audience as I have never seen him do before. As Scherer just said to me: Zell Miller without the mean.
Posting this for Amy Sullivan: Well. Whether you like the Big Dog or not, he definitely brought it tonight. It’s like these last 18 bitterly-fought months didn’t even happen. If I were a cynic, tonight’s speech might even make me wonder if all of that chatter about how ticked off Clinton was by the Obama [...]
From Time’s Amy Sullivan Four years ago at the 2004 Democratic Convention, I noticed that when conservative media figures like Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Scarborough moved through the convention area, the crowds would part to let them through while shooting glares and launching the occasional heckle. Fast-forward to the era of [...]
Here’s my TIME.com story about the session that David Plouffe had with us today.
