Posting for Amy Sullivan I can’t be totally sure, but it’s possible that the press box is about to be crushed by a herd of rampaging buffalo. It’s either that or the fact that nearly all of Invesco stadium is full of people stamping their feet to amuse themselves between acts. We’ve also seen several [...]
Jay Newton-Small has a terrific story on how Obama wrote it.
Al Gore is giving a very tough speech, but is talking about twice as fast as usual. From where I’m sitting, it appears they are running the TelePrompTer at hyperspeed. A well-placed source tells me that is also how they kept Joe Biden on time last night, so that his big moment onstage with Obama [...]
Stevie Wonder is singing “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.” Wolf Blitzer and Donna Brazile are dancing on the CNN platform.
Atlanta biotech executive Kirk Dornbush is a very big second-generation Democratic fundraiser. (His dad was Bill Clinton’s ambassador to the Netherlands.) But around the Obama headquarters, Dornbush is known as the “chum king.” He has spent much of this year traveling the country setting up tables at rallies, where he sells Obama-themed merchandise. The campaign [...]
Jay Carney and I just posted a complete transcript of our interview with McCain. I continue to be interested in the following exchange over Iraq, when we asked McCain whether he still stands by the definition of success he described in April, when Gen. David Petraeus came before Congress: “A peaceful, stable, prosperous, democratic state [...]
My colleague David Von Drehle just made it through the mags. He reports it took him two hours and 24 minutes–and says the line is getting longer. Will.I.Am is now singing “Yes We Can.” Also, I’ve checked with the Obama campaign on a sensitive ethical issue. They say if I buy a soda, I will [...]
Just to give you a sense of what it’s like here: I showed up at 2:30 (six full hours before Obama is supposed to speak) and discovered a line that had to be at least a mile long. It took me an hour and 50 minutes to make it as far as the magnetometers, but [...]
One of John McCain’s health care advisers has proposed a novel solution to the nation’s health insurance problems: stop counting those who don’t have health insurance, since anyone can get health care if they go to an emergency room. Therefore…everybody’s covered. To which one can only say: huh? But I’ll let Ezra Klein, health policy [...]
