As a journalist who has covered Obama for 19 months now, I have heard him deliver more speeches than I can count. I know when he’s tired he goes long – like 90 minutes long – rambling through oft-repeated points and stories. I’ve seen him address crowds of 80,000 and rooms of less than 100. And after a while you become immune to …
Monroe, Michigan
After making brief remarks on Hurricane Gustav at a Labor Day event in Monroe, Michigan, Obama was asked about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy.
“I have said before and I will say it again: I think people’s families are off limits and I think people’s children are especially off limits,” he said.
He encouraged reporters …
My story out today on Obama and Biden’s chemistry.
Joe Biden called his vice presidential opponent Sarah Palin “good looking” at an event in Toledo yesterday. It was classic Biden, full of self-deprecating humor.
Biden: There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent and that is that – it’s obviously,
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As McCain and Palin make their way down to Mississippi today they would do well to remember George H. W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Most people remember Bush botching the job, prompting one outraged local official to ask “Where’s the cavalry?” But at the time Bush’s first trip to the Miami area was roundly …
Here’s a story my colleague Michael Grunwald and I whipped up today. It pulls from an interview two weeks ago I did with Palin for our “Hotshots to Watch” series. You can also listen to the interview, in which she talks about how she hopes to shape the Republican Party, her own rapid ascent and her compelling personal story, and …
As Biden started speaking Obama’s protective press pool hustled into the press area, which means Obama’s in the building…
Update:
Obama spokeswoman Jenn Psaki tells us Obama will join Biden on the stage when he’s done speaking.
Given Obama’s statements in Moline that he wasn’t aiming for soaring rhetoric in his acceptance speech tomorrow, it’s not entirely surprising that a reporter on Obama’s flight in to Denver from Billings, Montana today asked David Axelrod: Is Obama aiming for boring?
Axelrod laughed and snarkily replied: “Yeah, that’s why …
Billings, Montana
Here’s a dispatch from the road on Obama’s migration west. As I note in the story, Gore made a surprise stop to the floor of the convention in Los Angeles when he arrived that Wednesday to see his daughter speak. Obama is currently not scheduled to set foot in the Pepsi Center but his aides won’t rule out that he …
Moline, Illinois
In a press conference on the tarmac before leaving for Kansas City, Obama just batted down stories that there’s any dissention between himself and the Clintons.
“She could not have been more clear today, she could not have been more clear in the course of the last several months,” Obama said. “President Clinton …
This story has been a long time coming, having spent some time in Chicago looking at her childhood and early working life. Probably my favorite anecdote about Michelle came from her mother, Marian Robinson. The family lived in a one bedroom apartment, part of a little brick bungalow on a tree-lined street that belonged to a relative. The …
From this week’s dead tree edition, five up and coming Dems you may not have heard of, but odds are you soon will.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
The reading this morning at the First Lutheran Church here where Obama – totting his own bible – attended services may have just been coincidental, though the reader Don Etnier, did preface it with this:
Paul tells us that you shouldn’t be cocky just because you’re an excellent singer. Or musician. Or public
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