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Obama campaign chief calls McCain a "schmuck"! Obama campaign chief of staff Jim Messina has some tough words for John McCain while detailing the campaign’s strategy during a meeting with Iowa Democrats.
Download &... If McCain continues to be the schmuck he’s being, we’re gonna play there…tell some truth.”
(HT: Radio Iowa) feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 (You can access a PDF version of this post by going here)
From his
official website:
Governor Pawlenty grew up in South St. Paul, Minnesota. The only
child in his family to graduate from college, he attended the
University of Minnesota (B.A., J.D.) and practiced law in the
private sector. His public service career includes serving as a
city councilmember and ten-year member of the Minnesota House of
Representatives, including four years as House Majority Leader.
As Governor, he has balanced Minnesota's budget three times
without raising taxes, despite facing record budget deficits.
Governor Pawlenty's most notable accomplishments include proposing
and signing into law significant new benefits for veterans and
members of the military; enacting a property tax cap, eliminating
the marriage penalty and cutting taxes; toughening the state's
education standards; reforming the way teachers are paid through a
nation-leading performance pay plan; instituting free-market health
care reforms feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 John McCain is about to introduce Sarah Palin in Dayton, Ohio. First impressions are important. Palin is on the spot. I'll live blog it below the fold. By Big Tent Democrat Good visuals for McCain. An excited crowd. It's McCain's birthday? Framing this as an outsider, reformer pick. to coin a phrase, a change agent. So that is the rollout angle. Smart. Here's Sarah Palin. A woman vice president. Always a good visual. Common touch. Working class vice presidential candidate. Union worker husband. Son joining the army. That's a pretty good story. feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 Tread Carefully Regarding Palin Steve M makes a point worth repeating: [S]ome of the more piggish individuals on the Democratic side need to step back and take their cues from Hillary about how to handle [Palin] with class and respect. If Democrats are openly derisive regarding Palin's experience, it becomes chapter 2 of the "fairytale." Women will not like seeing her mocked any more than blacks liked seeing Obama get knocked around for his lack of experience. I would add that Obama does not need to be arguing how important experience is. Let me also add that when Tim Kaine, who has exactly the same experience as Palin, was treated by the Media and the Dems as a serious and acceptable potential pick, it opens up charges of a double standard. By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 First Reaction to McCain's Choice of Palin My first reaction to John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for VP: He just gave the election to Barack Obama. McCain is 72 years old. The likelihood that his VP pick will be President during his four year term is a serious consideration. A first term Governor from Alaska with only a year in the job? McCain now has no "ready to lead" argument to use against Obama. It was his best one. He may be ready to lead, but given his age, we have to consider whether his veep pick is. More... I don't know a thing about Palin yet, in fact, I've never heard of her. She looks like she came straight out of central casting -- a little bit like Geena Davis in the show where she portrayed a female President with a run so short I can't even recall its name. McCain's best bet was Mitt Romney. One part of me is relieved because McCain-Romney would have been a serious contender. Another part of me is worried, what if Obama's campaign makes a serious misstep, McCain wins, is unable t feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 Palin A Calculated Gamble For McCain As I wrote below, there are good reasons for McCain to pick Sarah Palin, the first term Governor of Alaska. Now, Palin is as experienced as Tim Kaine, who was considered an acceptable VP alternative to many. Which was ridiculous. Tim Kaine was unacceptable. McCain is also signaling an ideological contest, Palin is very conservative. Perhaps Obama's speech and not choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate last night spurred this choice. That said, Palin is a very risky pick and undermines many of McCain's lines of attacks - the experience argument. But the dynamics of this election are such that McCain needed something to shake up the race. This certainly does that. The discussion of Obama's speech have ended for the moment. Believe it or not, if not taking the Romney path and hoping for some campaign event to change the math, I think Palin is McCain's best bet. It is a gamble, but when you are going to lose if you do not gamble, you might as well take the shot. I think McC feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 NBC, CNN, FOX: McCain Picks Palin For VP Update [2008-8-29 10:16:17 by Big Tent Democrat]: According to NBC, John Harwood is reporting that McCain has picked Sarah Palin as his VP. If not Mitt Romney, then the Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, makes the most sense for McCain in my opinion. First and foremost, it would stop Obama's Media train in its tracks today. I have no idea what skeletons, if any, Palin has. Indeed, I know nothing about her really. But as a Media story, picking a woman would be huge. Second, it revives the Hillary melodramas. And at this point, Obama does not need that. We'll all know at 12. By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 NBC: Lieberman In Dayton For McCain VP Announcement So says NBC. Hinting at Lieberman as possibly the VP pick. Puhleaaze McCain, pick Lieberman. Please, please, please. for two reasons. Number one, it would guarantee that Obama will win in a landslide. Almost as importantly, it would pit Obama's new Politics of Contrast against David Broder's Unity '08 Dream Ticket. And we can smash, once and for all, the Beltway's grip on political discourse in this country. By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 The Politics Of Contrast Triumphant In my first post for Talk Left in the summer of 2006, I wrote: How did FDR do it and can Democrats defend FDR liberalism today? Maybe not by calling it FDR liberalism but they surely can and do when they have the courage of their convictions. The most prominent of these instances was the fight to save Social Security Faced with Media hostility, Republican demagogy and flat out lies, Democrats rallied to the FDR liberalism banner and crushed the Republican attempts to roll back the clock. FDR would have been proud of Democrats in that fight. No triangulation. Good old fashioned political populism won the day. And that is FDR's lesson for Obama. Politics is not a battle for the middle. It is a battle for defining the terms of the political debate. It is a battle to be able to say what is the middle. . . The lesson of Hofstadter is to embrace liberal governance and understand populist politics. It may sound cynical, but you must get through the door to govern. Lincoln knew this. FDR feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 Barack and Michelle Obama arrived back at the Westin Hotel at 17th and Lawrence around 11 pm. There was a huge motor parade escorting them. We all had to wait at the entrance until they got an "all clear." The kid in front of me didn't seem to want to wait and ended up arrested. There were tons of police motorcycles and SUV's, using sirens to take them back. The street was lined with people and they all cheered as the Obamas drove by. Motorcycles pictured below: feedburner.com Friday, August 29, 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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