Expect a few photos over the next 16 days or so, but VERY infrequent postings.
Au revoir!
Take his decision to deliver his acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver. It seems that the venue for the rest of the Democratic convention - the Pepsi Center (occupancy 21,000) - is just too small.
Obama says he wants to give the common folk more "access" to the process. Only a man with an Olympian's sense of entitlement to mass worship could describe such a choreographed descent upon a place called "Mile High" as an effort to bond with the common man. A demigod, it seems, is never so tall as when he stoops to bask in the adoration of the little people.
New York, NY ? President Bill Clinton will deliver a major Clinton Foundation announcement on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:45 PM at the Clinton Foundation Harlem Office. Currently, the Clinton Foundation works in over 44 countries on six continents to address some of the most pressing global challenges, including HIV/AIDS, climate change, childhood obesity in the United States and economic development around the world
What: Clinton Foundation Announcement
Who: President Clinton and leading drug manufacturers
Where: Clinton Foundation
55 W. 125th Street
New York, NY
When: Thursday, July 17, 2008
12:45 PM
"I'm having extreme difficulty getting the Obama campaign to commit to this event, and we do not understand why,? said Ms. Picard, whose husband is deployed in Iraq. ?We made it very clear to them that if they would commit to the event, we would work with them on dates."I'm starting to get the impression too that the Obama campaign turns down these offers time and time again only to scramble to schedule their own event on the date mentioned.
The organizers released details about the event in hopes that it would pressure the Obama campaign to agree to the event.
"This was a decision that was made with tremendous difficulty, to publicize it,? Ms. Picard said. ?We were at a point where we had no other option. We got the impression that they could talk us to November."
Fri. July 4th 2pm
Nutritious and Delicious Independence Day Luncheon with Ralph Nader
Honolulu, HI
"McCain starts his bid for New Hampshire's four electoral votes with an important potential advantage: He's not only well-known, he's something of a local hero."
Obama did well in January's Democratic primary but didn't emerge a star here. He finished a close second to Hillary Clinton and won 41 percent of the independent vote, the best showing of any candidate among New Hampshire independents but not an overwhelming tally.
I was sorry to see the Obama campaign "reject" Gen. Wesley Clark's remarks about John McCain on Face the Nation yesterday. I think the context of Clark's remarks mattered (although that's gotten lost in the right wing blogosphere's attacks on Clark). Clark was baited into his statement by host Bob Schieffer, who took issue with some earlier, milder remarks Clark had made about McCain's military service not being direct preparation for the presidency.
Here's what was said:
Schieffer: I have to say, Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down. I mean --
Clark: Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
Schieffer: Really?
I think the most fascinating part of the exchange was Schieffer's "Really?" which teed up the whole MSM outragegasm over Clark's words. Really, Bob, it's true: Riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down are not, by themselves, qualifications to be president.
Obama needs military leaders and veterans who aren't afraid to stand up and question McCain's "experience" argument, when so much of it is tied to his military experience. Earlier in the interview Clark called McCain a "hero" for the way he endured five and a half years of torture as a POW, but he was credibly taking on the argument that McCain's military experience, itself, makes him uniquely qualified to be commander in chief. I'm not sure Obama had to reject what Clark said, which was otherwise unobjectionable. I think Clark deserved better.
Walter "Butch" Maki, a former helicopter combat soldier in Vietnam, served as long-time district director for Congressman Bill Richardson, and formed professional relationships with New Mexico's federal, state, and local political and grassroots leaders.(Albuquerque Journal, Feb. 11, 2007)
The [New Mexico] House approved the bill on a 56-6 vote without almost no debate.
One provision could provide some financing for a startup company that is negotiating to buy Qwest's telephone lines on the Navajo reservation. The company, Sacred Wind Communications, plans to use wireless technology to expand telephone service on Navajo lands.
It would be truly stunning if Obama could turn Montana into a competitive state this November. George W. Bush won Montana?s 3 Electoral College Votes by twenty percentage points in 2004 and by twenty-five points four years earlier.