Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"For the bruised and bitter staff around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tuesday's death-defying victories in the Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas proved sweet indeed. They savored their wins yesterday, plotted their next steps and indulged in a moment of optimism. "She won't be stopped," one aide crowed."
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Showing posts with label Washington Post. Show all posts
Thursday
Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself - Washington Post
Wednesday
OBAMA: In the Weeks to Come, A Costly Battle on Two Fronts - Washington Post
OBAMA: In the Weeks to Come, A Costly Battle on Two Fronts - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"With losses in three out of four primaries yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his campaign face a scenario that a barrage of advertising, phone calls and door-knocking could not avert -- a protracted, two-front war against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain."
Thursday
McCain's Ties to Lobbyist Worried Aides - Washington Post
McCain's Ties to Lobbyist Worried Aides - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"Members of the senator's small circle of advisers also confronted McCain directly, according to sources, warning him that his continued ties to a lobbyist who had business before the powerful commerce committee he chaired threatened to derail his presidential ambitions.
Appearing before reporters this morning in Toledo, Ohio, McCain flatly denied receiving such warnings from his aides and said he had no knowledge that Weaver or anyone else on his staff had told Iseman to keep her distance. He also denied that he and Iseman had been romantically involved, despite a report in the New York Times that his aides were concerned that such a relationship existed."
Wednesday
Washington Post - Clinton Says Nothing About Losses
See also:
Hillary Clinton at the University of Maine - The view from outside, turned away, in the cold
Washington Post - Clinton Says Nothing About Losses
Excerpt:
"As news of her triple defeat in the Potomac Primary sank in, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did what has become a specialty in recent weeks: She headed someplace else.
After flying from Virginia to Texas for a rally on Tuesday night, Clinton did not publicly acknowledge, even in passing, that three significant primaries had taken place that day and her campaign had not issued a statement hours after results were announced."
Washington Post - The 2007 Pinocchio Awards
Excerpt:
"1. "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King"--Mitt Romney, "Faith in America" address, December 6, 2007."
Friday
Bush to Signal Support for McCain - Washington Post
Bush to Signal Support for McCain - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"With the race to succeed him reaching a critical juncture, President Bush this morning began rallying the Republican base around its presumptive nominee, John McCain, and in the process tried to define his own legacy for the general election campaign to come."
Wednesday
Clinton and Obama Trade Victories - The Washington Post
Clinton and Obama Trade Victories - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
"The results ensured that the fierce contest for delegates will continue into critical primaries in Texas and Ohio on March 4, and possibly beyond, in what has become the party's most competitive race in at least a quarter of a century."
Sphere: Related ContentTuesday
Bill Richardson's Choice - The Washington Post Blog
Bill Richardson's Choice - The Washington Post Blog
Excerpt:
"Gov. Bill Richardson's phone has been ringing off the hook. Sen. Hillary Clinton called Sunday night. That was followed by a call from former president Bill Clinton, then a call from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who's supporting Clinton. Sen. Barack Obama called twice Monday morning....
Richardson's torn. He served in the Clinton White House, first as ambassador to the United Nations, then as Clinton's Secretary of Energy. "I have a history with the Clintons," Richardson said. "And I've always liked her. She always seems very genuine." But Richardson considers Kennedy, who's long been respected by Hispanics, as "a mentor." In 1982, when Richardson ran for Congress for the second time -- he lost two years before -- Kennedy flew to Santa Fe and campaigned for him. "That might have been the reason I was elected," Richardson said. And he said he likes Obama, telling a story about how Obama saved him during one of last year's Democratic debates:"
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/29/richardsons_choice.html
Clinton, Edwards Hold Private Meetings After Debate - Washington Post
Clinton, Edwards Hold Private Meetings After Debate - Washington Post
(Headline from The Huffington Post)
Excerpt:
"According to eyewitnesses, they both walked out of their green rooms after the debate and agreed to talk, then went behind closed doors in Edwards's green room.
Clinton left 20 minutes later. No word on the subject matter, but as Edwards struggles in the polls with no wins to date, his post-campaign strategy is surely in the air."
Voices Are Raised in Democratic Debate - Washington Post
Voices Are Raised in Democratic Debate - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"The Democratic presidential front-runners clashed angrily in a debate Monday night, with Sen. Barack Obama accusing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband of repeatedly distorting his positions and Clinton asserting that Obama is trying to run away from his record."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/01/22/ST2008012200562.html
Monday
Washington Post: This Time, McCain Defused Conservative Attacks
Washington Post: This Time, McCain Defused Conservative Attacks
Excerpt:
"From Rush Limbaugh to Tom DeLay, voices that once held sway over the Republican rank and file unloaded on John McCain over the last week, trying to use a conservative electorate in South Carolina to derail the Arizona senator's quest for the Republican nomination.
But though McCain failed to persuade many of the old Republican power brokers, he wrapped up the Republican establishment where it counted most, South Carolina. His win Saturday underscored how different McCain's campaign has been this year compared with eight years ago, when a similar conservative assault effectively ended his campaign here and handed his party's presidential nomination to George W. Bush.
"I think the people of South Carolina are getting to know John McCain now, a little more than they know those folks anymore," longtime McCain aide Mark Salter said Saturday night of the senator's old nemeses."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/19/AR2008011903187.html
Washington Post: GOP Readies for True Test in Florida
Washington Post: GOP Field Readies for True Test In Florida - The Top Candidates Finally Go All-Out In a Closed Primary
Excerpt:
"Riding the momentum from his weekend victory in South Carolina, John McCain turned his attention Sunday to Florida and the high-stakes primary there that will test whether the Arizona senator can consolidate support among Republican voters and take control of the GOP nomination battle.
The Jan. 29 contest in Florida will be the first Republican primary closed to independent voters, who have provided McCain with his margins of victory in both New Hampshire and South Carolina. A victory, strategists agreed, would stamp McCain as the front-runner in what has been a muddied Republican race and give him a clear advantage heading toward Super Tuesday on Feb. 5."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/20/AR2008012002521.html
Saturday
Online, Obama Starts to Beat Ron Paul - The Washington Post
Online, Obama Starts to Beat Ron Paul - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
"This week, Obama's campaign announced that it received money from 100,000 online donors in the first 15 days of the year. Though the campaign won't announced exactly how much money that is -- unlike Rep. Ron Paul, who has made his online contributions public in real time -- it's still a stunning figure, say online political observers. Wrote Joshua Levy of TechPresident, the bipartisan group blog that tracks online campaigning: "in the last two weeks alone he's averaged about 50,000 donors a week. That's darn impressive, and it looks like Barack Obama has displaced Ron Paul to become the online fundraising juggernaut of the campaign.""
Tuesday
The Envy of BET Founder Robert Johnson
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama - The Washington Post
Alex: The below illustrates why they say that the most important color in politics is green (envy, cash, take your pick, whichever you think may most apply here).
I don't care how badly you want to be with a winner (or "king of the hill" yourself), don't people have even a little more self-respect than that?
Let's just say that Barack Obama - as the newcomer on the block compared to Johnson - gets more press coverage in a week than I'm guessing that Johnson, despite his long record of accomplishment, might get in a year.
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
"A day after his remarks about Sen. Barack Obama helped fuel a rancorous debate about race in the Democratic presidential contest, an unapologetic Robert L. Johnson described how frustrating it is to be on the other side of a candidate he compared to Teflon.
"We've always said we need a perfect, well-spoken, Harvard-educated black candidate who would prove we've transcended race," the billionaire African American businessman and supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) said in an interview yesterday. "Well, now we've got him and nobody knows how to campaign against him."...
Since 1990, Johnson has donated $2 million to congressional and presidential candidates, and 99 percent of that has gone to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. He has given $14,800 to Hillary Clinton since she first ran for the Senate in 2000. He gave $4,500 total to Obama during the 2004 and 2006 cycles, but none so far during this campaign, the CRP reports.
After Bill Clinton left office, he and Johnson traded professional favors, Johnson said. When Johnson was bidding to buy the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team, he asked Clinton to call league Commissioner David Stern and put in a good word for him, which Clinton did."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402980.html
Also:
Alex: I'm not privy to inside information, but I feel differently about this:
Rangel: Obama remarks 'absolutely stupid'
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/rangel_obama_remarks_absolutel.html
Obama's Farrakhan Test - Washington Post - Richard Cohen
Obama's Farrakhan Test - Washington Post - Richard Cohen
Excerpt:
"Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402083.html
Monday
McCain Moves Into Lead; Obama Gains on Clinton - Washington Post
McCain Moves Into Lead; Obama Gains on Clinton - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"The first contests of the 2008 presidential campaign have led to a dramatic shake-up in public opinion nationally, with Sen. John McCain now leading the Republican field and Sen. Barack Obama all but erasing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-overwhelming advantage among Democrats, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302514.html
Clinton's King Comment 'Ill-Advised,' Obama Says - Washington Post
Clinton's King Comment 'Ill-Advised,' Obama Says - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her recent remarks on civil rights Sunday, as Sen. Barack Obama weighed in on the controversy for the first time, describing Clinton's earlier comments about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. as "unfortunate" and "ill-advised."
Obama had previously tried to sidestep direct engagement in the debate over race. But the recent controversy has touched a nerve with many African Americans, including some sympathetic to the Clintons, and Obama chose to address it Sunday."
(link to Washington Post article at end of post)
Alex: Obama may be too PC, that is polite, to take on Clinton. She's pretty ruthless, and voters let her get away with that. Why do they?????
Washington Post Article Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011303624.html?hpid=topnews
Tuesday
Bhutto's Son Asks for UN-Backed Investigation of Assassination - Washington Post
Bhutto's Son Asks for UN-Backed Investigation of Assassination - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"The son of slain Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday called for a U.N.-backed investigation of his mother's death, saying that Pakistani authorities failed to provide her with adequate security and he did not trust them to solve her murder."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010801588.html
Thursday
Kenyans Vote in Presidential Election - Washington Post
Kenyans Vote in Presidential Election - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"Waiting in hours-long lines and in some cases queuing up well before dawn, Kenyans streamed to the polls by the millions Thursday in what was shaping up to be the most open and competitive presidential election since the country gained independence from Britain in 1963."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701100.html
Saturday
Democrats Want Probe of Tape Destruction - Washington Post
Democrats Want Probe of Tape Destruction - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"Angry congressional Democrats demanded Friday that the Justice Department investigate why the CIA destroyed videotapes of the interrogation of two terrorism suspects.
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, called on Attorney General Michael Mukasey to find out "whether CIA officials who destroyed these videotapes and withheld information about their existence from official proceedings violated the law."
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., accused the CIA of a cover-up. "We haven't seen anything like this since the 18 1/2-minute gap in the tapes of President Richard Nixon," he said in a Senate floor speech."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120800339.html
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