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Elizabeth Edwards' Harshest Critics: Are They Sorry Now?
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyOn the day Elizabeth Edwards died, Time magazine's Mark Halperin eulogized her on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" as "one of the most public and valiant cancer survivors" he had ever known, an advocate who had used her spotlight to champion issues dear to her, including health care and gay rights. Movingly, Halperin described Edwards as an "incredible testament" to strength and courage and a mother who had worked to keep her family's life as normal as possible during the last days of her illness. In fact, unless you were one of the millions who read "Game Change," the '08 presidential campaign ...
Palin Rolls Out All-Media, All-the-Time Campaign
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyOver the past few days, Sarah Palin has rolled out a new phase of her political strategy -- a full-blown use of all media platforms to keep herself in the public eye. With the debut of her eight-part family series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," which drew a record-high nearly 5 million viewers to The Learning Channel on Sunday (against Sunday night football and the CBS and ABC hits "Undercover Boss" and "Desperate Housewives''), Palin can chalk up another media victory. But it is a mega-profile in the New York Times Magazine, released online Wednesday in advance of publication in print this ...
John Heilemann's Theory on Why Democrats Won't Fix Social Security
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe full 18-member deficit reduction commission has yet to vote on it, but the two chairmen of the bipartisan group President Obama's appointed -- former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson -- released their proposal last week. One part of the plan includes gradually raising the Social Security retirement age (for full Social Security benefits) to 69 by 2075. Predictably, liberals were angry at the commission. In fact, some bloggers dubbed them the "Catfood Commission." When you consider a) how bad our financial situation currently is; b) that ...
How N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Fended Off All Comers
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – Not so long ago political analysts and insiders in New York political circles saw Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as easy pickings. She was an upstate two-term congresswoman from a rural and conservative district appointed to fill the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton after Caroline Kennedy, the sentimental favorite, withdrew from consideration during the messy, two-month process. From the moment Gillibrand took the job in Jan. 2009, she was under attack -- ignored, criticized or dismissed by all sides and political parties. Even after serving a few months, most New Yorkers still ...
Is This Goodbye, Harry? You Deserve a Plaque for Public Service
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI hope his prehistoric perspective and unfortunate choice of words regarding Mr. Obama's complexion and diction does not cost the majority leader his seat in the Senate. Despite a substantial war chest and significant pork power, the four-term lawmaker may not have another six-year tenure in his future. Nevadans are not wild about Harry in his current re-election campaign, and races are lost on far less than front-page indiscretions. The senator from Searchlight must wish he hadn't been so frank with reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann during the presidential election campaign. ...
Reid Apologizes for Racial Remark About Obama, and Also Sinks in a Poll
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThis was not the best of days for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who found himself apologizing for having referred to candidate Barack Obama in private as a "light-skinned" black with no "Negro dialect," and then having to digest a new poll saying most Nevadans viewed him unfavorably and would elect any of his potential GOP opponents over him. ...
Reid Apologizes for 'No Negro Dialect' Remark
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 9) -- The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Obama is the nation's first African-American president. "I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my ...
Report: Hillary First Rejected Obama Post, Worried About Bill's 'Penchant for Controversy'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen Barack Obama asked Hillary Clinton to become his secretary of state, she first turned down the job. She later accepted, of course, but was reportedly worried about the effect her husband's "penchant for controversy" would have on a role that would require the utmost diplomacy, loyalty and discretion. That and other revelations about the Democratic and Republican 2008 presidential campaigns will be the subject of CBS's "60 Minutes" this Sunday when Anderson Cooper interviews political reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann about their book, "Game Change." Halperin and Heilemann ...
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