Chelsea Clinton was asked about that Monica Lewinsky business again — this time during a Q&A at North Carolina State. The former first child didn’t much like the question.
Archive for March, 2008
At a town hall meeting today in Lancaster, PA, Barack Obama says Countrywide Financial is responsible for “infecting the economy” by “inducing” borrowers to take out “these sub-prime loans.” And not only that, but their top executives got big bonuses when the troubled company was sold.
Sound Bite: “What’s wrong with this picture? Everything’s wrong with it.”
According to most polls, Hillary Clinton is running well ahead of Brack Obama in Pennsylvania, but it looks like she needs some dough to finance the rest of the campaign. In this clip she thanks her supporters — and asks for contributions.
Sound Bite: “I’m being outspent 2 to 1, 3 to 1, 4 to 1 . . . even 5 to 1.”
McCain’s campaign puts up a web ad arguing that he’s better because his parents were great. The royalty argument, I think that is.
Conservative NY Times columnist William Kristol would scold him for that, I think. Kristol writes today that biography isn’t enough.
McCain will spend this week trying to reinforce his biographical advantage, embarking on a “Service to America” tour to places associated with his own, and his family’s, service to the country — from McCain Field (named for his grandfather) near Meridian, Miss., to Annapolis, to two of his stateside Navy postings in Florida.This is a perfectly reasonable way for McCain to spend time while most of the country enjoys the Democrats’ rollicking demolition derby.
But here’s something for the McCain campaign to remember: Democracies don’t always elect the man who has done the most for his country. . . .
Campaign consultants like to say elections are about the present and the future more than the past. To the degree they are about the past, they’re about the very recent past: “What have you done for me lately?” But we don’t even hear that question much anymore. Today’s campaigns are designed to capture the present and imagine the future.
Senator Patrick Leahy may want Hillary to fold her tent, but Barack Obama says she should keep on keepin’ on.
Sound Bite: “My attitude is that Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants, her name’s on the ballot.”
Here’s Senator Leahy calling for Hillary to bail out.
At a recent campaign event, Chelsea Clinton was asked whether her ma will be a better president than her pa.
Sound Bite: “Well, again, I don’t take anything for granted, but hopefully with Pennsylvania’s help, she will be our next president, and yes, I do think she’ll be a better president.”
An Obama supporter makes a Hillary-for-Governor commercial, wishing she’d return to New York — cue pictures of messed-up guvs — “where they really need her.”
Hillary tells an Indiana rally she’s not quitting.
A daughter kidnaps her 80-year-old Mom to an Obama rally to try to lure her into the movement. Mom looks miserable.
Rosie O’Donnell tells Sam Harris (who’s going for Obama but protests a half-dozen times that, you know, he loves Hillary) that she wants an Obama/Clinton ticket. “If they work together, it’ll be 16 years…. It has to happen, or it won’t happen.”
Harris says that if a Republican wins, he’s thinking Canada. Rosie says that she met McCain at a rehabilitation center for veterans. He says her, “You’re like me, what you think, you say…. I have faith in this man much more than I had faith in any of the Bushes.”
Barack Obama appears on The View.
He says — for the first time? — that if Jeremiah Wright had not retired from the church and had not recanted his controversial views, Obama would have quit the church.
Videos captured by viewers, in four parts. The discussion before:
Obama’s entrance and the discussion of Wright:
Barack Obama’s latest commercial says nothing has happened since the oil embargo and gas shortage of the ’70s. He’ll change that.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean wants the remainder of the party’s super delgates to make up their minds by July 1. He also wants the two candidates to play nicer. (Side note: Is CBS News’ Harry Smith a tad too intense for a morning show? Just askin’.)
Sound Bite: “I think the superdelegates have already been weighing in. I think that there’s 800 of them and 450 of them have already said who they’re for. I’d like the other 350 to say who they’re at some point between now and the first of July so we don’t have to take this into the convention.”
I was just thinking that we hadn’t really seen any slick, citizen-made attack ads on YouTube since the Hillary 1984 spot. But this morning, I find two, just put up, going after Barack Obama. They use the same video template to make two points — one about the disenfranchised voters of Florida and Michigan, the other about Obama’s campaign contributions from what the videographer calls special interests. The tagline: “The art of hypocrisy.”
The Florida/Michigan spot (which also throws darts at Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi):
The campaign contribution spot:
This 60-second ad says John McCain has “walked the walk” — he’s seen as a POW giving his military serial number (624787) — and that he’s “the American president Americans have been waiting for.”
