[Translate] This breaking news, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson annouced he was stepping down as President-Elect Barack Obama’s Commerce Secretary Designate. The reason given by the Washington Post is that in light of the matter of the Blagojevich Scandal, Richardson reconsidered the importance of an alledged “pay-to-play” investigation in New Mexico. I learned the news from this email: Richardson to withdraw as Commerce secretaryNew Mexico governor cites pending investigation of business dealingsBREAKING...
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[Translate] National Journal Online — Lost in Transition — E-Government Ball Already Rolling At Commerce: “If Barack Obama wants to prioritize e-government, he might look to the Commerce Department, which has quietly gained a reputation for being one of the most Web-savvy departments in the federal government.Commerce has long been viewed as a sprawling, almost ungovernable bureaucracy, but over the last few years it has seen significant advances in areas both small (online video) and large (the 2010 census).“I...
[Translate] Clinton supporter and CNN commentator James Carville is known for saying what’s on his mind, regardless of the results. Recently he called New Mexico Governor and former presidential candidate Bill Richardson “Judas” for endorsing Barack Obama. But in this exchange with the same Governor Richardson this week on “Larry King Live”, Carville stuck his foot in his mouth big time, when he said that the NY Times Editorial Board — the same one that endorsed Senator Clinton for president —...
[Translate] Gov. Bill Richardson v. James Carville A Warning To Superdelegates In a timely op-ed in the Monday Washington Post, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson reveals that is call to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to report that he’d endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President was “heated” but did not give more details. Richardson was writing to report his displeasure with the “personal” attacks Clinton supporter and CNN Commentator James Carville has exacted on him after Richardson endorsed Obama....
[Translate] First congratulations to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on her New Hampshire Primary win. Second, congratulations to Senator Barack Obama for the best speech of the night. In this video, I assert that Senator Clinton’s crying peformance was just that, a performance. And I say this is so because the Clinton Campaign has a track record of staging people in place at events to ask pre-determined questions. This was done – for example — in Newton, Iowa, where according to the Grinnell College newspaper…...
[Translate] Just one day after releasing an unusual poll reporting Senator Barack Obama tied with Senator Hillary Clinton after his Iowa victory, but also as others released polls with Obama ahead by as much as 10 points, CNN / WMUR / UNH issued what CNN calls a “new” poll, this one reports Obama with 39 percent, Clinton at 29 percent, Senator Edwards at 16 percent, and Gov. Richardson at 7 percent. What’s interesting is this poll’s data sheet does not include a disclaimer note, unlike the first poll....
[Translate] U.S. Senator Barack Obama added another high-profile endorsement to his growing list of them, this one from the Dallas Morning News. Here’s what the DMN wrote today: We Recommend: Barack Obama Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination12:00 AM CST on Sunday, December 23, 2007 America is at a historic crossroads as a woman, a Hispanic and an African-American vie for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Two of those candidates, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, were finalists for our recommendation...
[Translate] Going public and getting picked up by The Wash Post hurts Clinton’s campaign, for sure. Garry Thomas counted himself a Hillary Clinton supporter — even signing up to be one of her 25 co-chairs in Iowa alongside with former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack. But Thomas now says he felt obliged to switch sides in recent weeks. “I think the Clinton campaign went negative,” Thomas said in a telephone interview on Thursday. He attributed his defection to the new tone Clinton took last weekend, describing...
[Translate] 33 percent of persons responding to a CNN-After-Debate Poll online reported that Senator Barack Obama was the winner of the CNN Las Vegas Democratic Debate. Indeed, both CNN’s poll and the Iowa Independent reported Obama as the winner as have other bloggers. Iowa’s point of view is strongest as that state has the first major voter test in January. Here’s what Douglas Burns of the Iowa Independent wrote: Obama Exposes Regional Difference With Clinton As Debate Turns For Himby: Douglas BurnsThursday...
[Translate] Being the supposed front runner has the one disadvantage of having everything you do or say analyzed and taken-apart. And in this digital world, the results of that work are spread far and wide rapidly. Senator Clinton’s poor performance in this debate — so bad that it may have cost her the nomination. I say may, because she’s got another chance on November 15th with CNN. NBC went on the attack, which places CNN in a bind. If they’re too nice to Clinton, they could be seen as favoring her,...
[Translate] This is an update of our earlier story on the death threat Radio Talk Show Host Mancow Mueller says he received after he had former Hollywood business man Peter Paul on his show Friday. I’ve just received from a source a copy of the radio show audio file where Mancow discusses the death threat he received with James Nesfield of the Equal Justice Foundation (ejfa.org) on Mancow’s radio show, Monday, October 29th. Here’s what was said in text form: Mancow: Listen, I had a guy on named Peter Paul...
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