Delivery Could Use Some Work
Posted on September 23, 2008 at 11:18 amBut on the reasons why Democrats should avoid attacking Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton is right on:
“People look at her, and they say, ‘All those kids. Something that happens in everybody’s family. I’m glad she loves her daughter and she’s not ashamed of her. Glad that girl’s going around with her boyfriend. Glad they’re going to get married.”‘
Clinton said voters would think, “I like that little Down syndrome kid. One of them lives down the street. They’re wonderful children. They’re wonderful people….”
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Not With Him But For Him: What Bill Clinton Should Do
Posted on September 11, 2008 at 1:31 pmTalk Left has a good idea:
If I were running Obama’s campaign, I would have Obama campaign with Bill Clinton next week in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan for a few days.
I would go even further. I would say that Clinton’s role doesn’t (and probably shouldn’t) include that many joint appearances.
Clinton needs to go to the poor, rural and, most importantly, white areas of the swing states and make the case Obama seems incapable of making for himself.
Clinton needs to do what he did for his wife during the end of her campaign.
He needs to speak to small audiences, stay away from the national press as much as possible, and work those out-of-the-way, isolated places where Democrats, who are whether black nor highly educated, live.
If Clinton, can do a non stop tour of those kinds of areas he might well help accomplish for Obama what he failed to do for his wife.
If he were successful, it would go a long way to heal the rifts he and his wife made in the primary. He would restore his position in the party.
The only question is: Does he want to?
Clinton Still Doesn’t Think Obama Is Ready For The Jelly
Posted on August 5, 2008 at 7:10 amThe former president still refuses to concede that Barack Obama is ready for the Oval Office:
Bubba’s backers concede his unwillingness to say his party’s nominee is ready to sit in the Oval Office was a faux pas.
“The political answer is to just say, ‘Yes,’ period,” said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. “But as a former President, he has a special perspective on what it takes.”
Clinton couldn’t just say the political thing, Lehane added, because he’s still smarting from Hillary Clinton’s bitter defeat.
“This is someone whose spouse was on the ticket, a person he felt tremendously strong about, who he felt had the ability to become President,” Lehane said.
Clinton and his wife argued in nearly every speech that she was ready tobe President on day one.
Bubba did praise some of the very same traits he ripped in the primaries - including Obama’s ability to lead through inspiring words, which he trashed as empty rhetoric on the campaign trail.
“He clearly can inspire and motivate people and energize them, which is a very important part of being President,” Clinton said. “And he’s smart as a whip so there’s nothing he can’t learn.”
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Explicit Denial: Al Gore Won’t Serve As Veep
Posted on July 18, 2008 at 7:11 amFrom the Boston Globe:
“I’ve decided to impose a personal term limit of two terms as vice president,” Gore said on ABC News.
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Post Politics: 11 April 2008 - Afternoon Edition
Posted on April 11, 2008 at 3:09 pmThe Knoxville News-Sentinel reports this morning that former U.S. Representative and mayoral candidate Bob Clement will join up with Knoxville real estate heavyweight Coldwell Banker Commercial Wallace & Wallace. Clement will remain based in Nashville and will not be working in real estate full-time. Clement in January launched Clement & Associates, a lobbying and public affairs group, with offices in Knoxville, Nashville and Washington and joined up with the GOP-heavy Washington lobby shop, The Livingston Group, shortly thereafter.Bill Clinton decides to remind everyone about his wife’s various gaffes on the campaign trail in the hopes of promoting a narrative pitting Hillary against a hostile media.
The Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Sen. Andy Berke (D-Chattanooga) and Rep. Mark Maddox (D-Dresden) will host the Days of Remembrance Ceremony on April 14 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Old Supreme Court Chamber.
Don Williams breaks down the Presidential race using America’s National Pastime.
U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Bob Tuke accuses Sen. Lamar Alexander for being in bed with the Oil Lobby while talking up energy independence and the environment.
Blake Fontenay gets confused as to which Columbia is being referred to in a Marsha Blackburn press release.
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