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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Biden's undisciplined manner has made him a favorite among the media, who are always hungry for a quote, but I've always heard that the cardinal rule for picking a running mate is do no harm. Might a loose canon bring more harm than good? Thoughts? ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint If it's Sunday, it's Meet The Press... Never has a slogan been more apt, for my household and for millions of Americans, it was simply a part of our routine. Tim Russert had no equal. His was the only can't-miss-show on television and his absence will be missed by everyone who cared to be informed. He was 58. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint The VP watch is the only game in town. Lets take a look at some of those on the short list. Up first, former Virginia Governor, Mark Warner. Obama would like to sure up the South and those Appalachian voters who aren't getting the Obama vibe. Warner is a moderate Democrat who might help Obama appeal more to centrist voters. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint No, It's not Matthew Broderick...todays doodle is of David Plouffe (pronounced Pluff), the campaign manager for presidential candidate Barack Obama. Plouffe is credited with the strategy that won Iowa and prolonged the primary season past Super Tuesday. The idea was to esablish an early presence in states where their opponent (believing the race would be over) had no organization. That strategy yielded twelve consecutive wins after super Tuesday and produced the margin of victory that would never be relinquished. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Leading off, Political consultant, David Axelrod. Axelrod is credited with implementing a strategy that encouraged grassroots participation, involving the people and giving them a stake in the campaign. Encouraging bloggers and using the internet to build an army of donors contributing a hundred dollars or less, Obama's grass roots fund raising soon dwarfed the small number of deep pocketed contributors in other campaigns . ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Congratulations to Senator Obama! Yesterday in my post regarding the passing of Bo Diddley I linked to some footage of him performing his self titled song released in 1955. That was before Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech, before the end of Jim Crow laws, before civil rights legislation, and before Barack Obama was born. The camera pans several times to the audience showing white kids bopping to Bo's rhythm and blues, but in the last few seconds (about 5:17 in) the camera pans to a segregated group black girls enjoying the show from what appears to be the balcony. That was fifty years ago, when many southern states legislated that blacks had to use a separate entrance, learn at a separate school, drink from a separate faucet, sit at the back of the bus, and could only sit in the balcony at theaters...Last night our nation made Bar ...
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