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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Political bits

(HuffPo) Bill O'Reilly goes "guerilla media" and gets into a scuffle with the Secret Service at an Obama event. He's also at a Clinton event. (Retooling his show for a Democratic 2008?)

(NYTimes) Huckabee campaign manager Ed Rollins on the record,
Mr. Huckabee’s campaign manager, Ed Rollins, suggested he was entering something of a temporary alliance of interest with Mr. McCain against Mr. Romney. Mr. Rollins said Mr. Huckabee would be using the next several days to present what he said would be an unfavorable comparison of their records as governor.

“We’re going to see if we can’t take Romney out,” Mr. Rollins said. “We like John. Nobody likes Romney.”

Interestingly, McCain wants to run against Huckabee because he's an evangelical, while Huckabee wants to run against McCain because he's hated by evangelicals.

(NYTimes) "Clinton advisers said Friday that they would not mount a negative advertising campaign..., saying the primary was too soon for such an onslaught to have any effect." (Not because of the morality, but because it wouldn't work.)

And, Carl Bernstein is vicious,
The shining aspect of the Clintons’ politics has always been their understanding of the tragedy of race in America. Each has spoken eloquently of the day when a black candidate for president would capture the imagination of the country, and be elected.

But never did the Clintons anticipate that it might occur on Hillary’s watch as a candidate for president herself, in opposition to them.


Big debates tonight on ABC. Should be fun.

Later: Clinton drops a piece of "scare mail."

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