I only caught some of the news today, but two items stayed with me as the day wore on.
One was the report that the Clinton campaign was 8.7 million in arrears and only able to run one ad in limited markets in pennsyltucky.
The other, related, was that the Clinton campaign has not kept up with [...]
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Barack Obama, in Harrisburg to campaign in the Pennsylvania primary, drew applause from a crowd at The Forum with lines like these: “We need to break the politics of fear that uses 9/11 to scare up votes”; a promise to “obey the constitution of the United States”; and an aspiration to [...]
UNIVERSITY PARK — There isn’t usually a lot of movement in State College on a Sunday morning.
But this morning, a line to see Barack Obama speak on the steps of Old Main at 1:30 p.m. was longer than any line Beaver Stadium has seen.
Two to four people wide at every point, the line begins outside [...]
For the past couple of weeks, I have kept in my edit buffer a concern/complaint about the small amount of campaigning Barack Obama has done in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Bill “the lech” Clinton has done more campaigning in this state than Obama has done (I am unimpressed with Dickinson’s female law students breathlessly commenting on [...]
The campaign of presidential candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama (web|news|bio) ’s released more details of his six-day bus tour across Pennsylvania Friday, announcing Obama will hold town hall meetings in Harrisburg (March 30) and Lancaster (March 31).
Obama’s town hall meeting in Harrisburg will be held at The Forum auditorium at North 5th and Walnut [...]
I just have to share this letter to the editor I read this morning in the Kennebec Journal (Auguster, ME).
American sexism hurting Clinton run for Presidency
There is much comment in the news lately about racism and ongoing prejudice against black Americans. Little mention is made about the equally pervasive sexism in America — and in [...]
It wasn’t enough to claim executive experience due to being married to the former Arkansas Governor and 42nd President of the United States, now she has to claim that she’s been shot at by snipers.
Reading from a prepared statement last week, Hillary went on about how she had to tuck and run after landing at a [...]
While nearly all of the attention is on the Bush administration’s failed invasion of a sovereign nation, aka Iraq, I was reminded that today also marks the 40th anniversary of the massacre at My Lai.
If Iraq has been a tremendous policy failure, Vietnam was even more so.
Today, I spent several moments at different times wondering [...]
It’s been a busy time between keeping my eye on the newest thing on the news and doing that volunteer thing for the Obama campaign. Phone calls after phone calls after phone calls but only for a few more days ‘cuz voter registration for the PA primary pretty much is done as of Monday evening.
But I [...]
