Archive for March, 2008

Barack Obama handily wins Dallas County district conventions | Dallas Morning News for Dallas, Texa

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Barack Obama cruised to victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in Dallas County’s Senate district conventions Saturday, as Texas Democrats continued their arduous and sometimes frustrating process of choosing national convention delegates.

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Is Obama’s Inevitability Campaign Backfiring?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Hillary Clinton is clearly winning the message war here. On the campaign trail in Indiana today, responding to questions about Sen. Patrick Leahy’s call for her to drop out of the race, Hillary Clinton framed her staying in the race as letting voters’ "voices be heard."

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Univ. of Chicago Clarifies Obama’s Professor Status - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The University of Chicago has issued this statement about whether Barack Obama was a professor. Shorter version: Once Obama advanced to the position of "senior lecturer in law" from "lecturer in law," he was considered on a par with professors.

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Barack Obama: “The View” Video : Top Socialite

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama converses with the ladies of “The View” about his plans for his presidency. We will have one sexy beast of a leader if he becomes president!

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Keith Boykin: Clinton Owes Obama An Apology on The Huffington Post

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I ve had it with the Clintons. The past few months I ve tried to defend Bill and Hillary Clinton against some of the more unreasonable attacks from their critics. Just last weekend on CNN s Ballot Bowl, I defended Bill Clinton when critics accused of him of questioning Barack Obama s patriotism. The critics may have misinterpreted Clinton s remarks, I said, giving the former president the benefit of the doubt.

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Democratic race over? Clinton doesn’t think so

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Somebody forgot to tell Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential race is over and Barack Obama won.

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Bob Barr thinking ‘very serious’ thoughts about a presidential race, Iraq, and torture | Political I

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

On an Internet site called Anti-War Radio, former Georgia congressman Bob Barr confirmed on Wednesday that he’s “very seriously” looking at joining the race for the White House as a Libertarian — and had harsh words for both the Iraq war and for the Bush Administration’s defense of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

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Doctors rally for a remedy - Doctors For Medical Liability Reform

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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Showing open hostility toward Assembly Democrats, about 1,500 doctors paraded through the Capitol on Tuesday complaining about a crisis of unaffordable malpractice insurance brought on largely because of the potential for uncapped pain-and-suffering awards. Spilling into both theaters at The Egg, the doctors of the Medical Society of the State of New York applauded, and even rose from their seats, to commitments from Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno to overhaul the malpractice system. Any mention of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver or any members of his conference, who did not appear before the group, drew jeers and boos. The Democrat-led Assembly has been painted as overly supportive of trial lawyers and clients who sue doctors.

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Character-in-Action® Blog » Hillary Clinton Misspoke – or Did She?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Hillary Clinton did not misspeak. She did not make a mistake. It was not a “minor blip” as she later termed it. Mrs. Clinton clearly wanted to deceive us by embellishing the trip to Bosnia. She wanted to convince us that such a dangerous foreign situation qualified her further to become U.S. President. She wrote the words into her prepared speech, and did not forget the truth when she stood at the podium. Hillary Clinton lied – on purpose.

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Hillary or Nobody?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

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As Barack Obama was floating in the pool with his daughters the last few days in St. Thomas, some Clinton disciples were floating the idea of St. Hillary as his vice president. She can’t win without him, said one Hillary adviser, and he can’t win without her. They’re stuck with each other.

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