Caught up with omnipresent Charles Barkley last night. The round mound of rebound has been doing the chat circuit talking up Obama, despite his former, extremely logical position of being a Republican “because I’m rich.” I put the “if the Obama campaign were a team, what team would it be” question to him, and he [...]
Obama guy David Plouffe to the Atlantic: “If [McCain] does pick Romney, what a duo! It’s the greatest job killing machine in the history of American politics. Mitt Romney is an expert on Cayman Island tax shelters. You couldn’t have a more out of touch ticket.”
We understand Terry McAuliffe (aka, “The Macker”) caused quite a stir on the floor yesterday, first convening with Virginia governor Tim Kaine and then taking time to talk with the delighted delegates, posing for pictures, signing autographs, trying on their hats… and listening to their concerns. He’s obviously a natural politician, though he’s never run [...]
Or, rather, what team would the McCain campaign be? Hari Sevugan picks up where Reggie Love didn’t want to go (let’s hope Reggie doesn’t know anyone playing ball in LA): “Maybe the Clippers. They’ve had a failed approach for years but all they offer their fans is more of the same. After decades in the [...]
We’re hearing a lot about anniversaries this week. Obama will be accepting the nomination 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Hillary Clinton spoke on the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage. But today is an anniversary too, and one that is getting surprisingly little attention [...]
It’s Joe Biden’s big night tonight. So what does it feel like to have almost made the cut? Stealth candidate Chet Edwards came through the grueling vetting process with his magnanimity and sense of humor intact: It is a measure of what a near-miss means in politics that, instead of getting the VIP treatment in [...]
Ilan Goldenberg has an accurate assessment of John McCain’s latest negative ad–it’s hard to keep up–over at Democracy Arsenal today. And David Ignatius, writing from Damascus, implicitly lays down a significant test for McCain: Bashar Assad wants direct peace talks with the Israelis, under the sponsorship of the United States and France. Assad has been [...]
For those of you who mistrusted the results of the Frank Luntz focus group I visited the other day here in Denver, Harold Meyerson has a column in the Washington Post today about a Stan Greenberg focus group in Macomb County, Michigan–a blue-collar bastion–that sends a similar message.
Hillary Clinton reports for duty. Mitt Romney auditions for veep. Mark Halperin grades the speeches.
