ABC’s Terry Moran looks kinda like a, um, donkey this morning, after reporting via Twitter that President Obama had called Kanye West a “jackass” yesterday, after West disrupted the MTV music awards in a typical fit of self-absorption. Obama’s “jackass” utterance came during an off the record exchange with CNBC. ABC News has apologized …
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Can Dance
Never mind the creepy Kenyan guy trying to marry daughter Chelsea, the Secretary of State has some moves. (At 25 sec.)
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Lewis Finally Makes Up His Mind
He’s for Clinton. He’s for Obama. He’s for Clinton. He’s not saying. And, wait, yup, he’s for Obama.
John Lewis FINALLY makes up his mind, telling the Atlanta Constitution Journal that neither Clinton nor Obama are returning his calls at this point.
“I did it because I felt I had to support Mrs. Clinton because of our friendship,”
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Ickes’ Sticky Memory
At a Washington DC breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor this morning reporters did their utmost to get Clinton senior advisor Harold Ickes to admit the campaign has failed to meet even their own goals laid out in near daily conference calls since Super Tuesday.* Ickes played the expectations game like a maestro.
One …
Obama v. McCain
Obama this morning held a press conference with reporters in Los Angeles where he made it clear that he believes that the increasingly likely candidacy of Senator John McCain in the GOP race will help Obama win the Democratic contest. Obama made his case on two fronts. First, that his early opposition to the war in Iraq is much more …
Hillary Giving Up on the Palmetto State?
Hilary will skip South Carolina most of the week, according to this nice scoop from the New York Observer, in order to campaign in California, Arizona, New Mexico, New Jersey and New York, all February 5th states.
The campaign isn’t totally abandoning the South Carolina, apparently Bill and Chelsea will be here tomorrow. But, clearly, …
Obama’s “Si Se Puede!”
When Obama invoked the specter of Cesar Chavez this week in a rally with the Culinary Workers Union in Nevada by proclaiming “Si Se Puede!” — Chavez’s legendary rallying cry — I was surprised. After all, the United Farm Workers, Chavez’s organization, had endorsed Hillary in May.
So I called an old acquaintance from college, …
Hillary Dreams of Being America’s Next Top Model
But settles for Dancing with the Stars instead.
When asked about which reality show she’d participate in while appearing on the Tyra Banks Show (Banks also host’s America’s Next top Model) Hillary said:
In my dreams I would be on America’s Next Top Model but in reality I would have to choose my limited talents and of them dancing
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Obama Campaign Defends “Present” Abortion Votes
In an unusual pre-emptive conference call with reporters the Obama campaign today defended his series of “present” votes on abortion measures in the Illinois State Senate.
The votes were actually part of a strategy developed by Planned Parenthood to stop Republican attacks on pro-choice candidates. “We had a very astute and devious …