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Mitch Daniels, Michael Dukakis, George Will and the 'Charisma of Competence'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIf columnist George Will really wants to get his friend Mitch Daniels elected president, maybe he should stop talking about "the charisma of competence." Will used the phrase in a praise-laden introduction of the second-term Indiana governor at the Conservative Political Action Conference recently in Washington. He repeated it a few days later at the conclusion of a column devoted to promoting Daniels. Those are very high-profile venues, and perhaps it's true that all publicity is good publicity. But competence has not been a terrific selling point in past presidential races for short ...
Is This Man Tim Pawlenty's 'Willie Horton'?
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyNot long ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty told the Christian Broadcasting Network, one of his teenage daughters asked him, "Dad are you gonna run for president?" His answer: "I don't know, Honey. I'm not sure." While he's making up his mind though, the Republican Minnesota chief executive is showing all the usual signs of presidential aspirations, including spending lots of time and money in Iowa and New Hampshire. He is also coming under the kind of scrutiny that all candidates face. Just last week, one of his actions as chairman of Minnesota's Board of Pardons had City Pages, a Twin Cities weekly ...
Indian-Americans Gaining Clout in U.S. Politics
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyROCKVILLE, Maryland -- On a recent October evening, Rajeev Sharma told President Barack Obama and 50 other guests how his late father -- who left behind a wealthy family in India to study in Missouri -- took a job mucking out cow barns during graduate school in the 1960s, and that his father-in-law arrived in this country a decade later with $8 in his pocket. "They worked hard, became Americans, and now they're meeting the leader of the free world at the home of their children," an emotional Sharma said to Obama, as his wife, Seema, her parents and his widowed mother looked on. By evening's ...
Jan Brewer's Bad Night Conjures Up Other Memorable Debate Moments
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyArizona Gov. Jan Brewer's long and awkward pause in her gubernatorial debate was the talk of political junkies this week. Why she froze was anybody's guess. The governor compounded her problems by preceding her uncomfortable interlude with an inaccurate claim (that she balanced the state's budget) and by following it with an ungrammatical sentence: "We have did what was right for Arizona." The governor's lapse immediately took its place in the pantheon of memorable moments in political debates, a category full of gaffes, one-liners, whoppers, ill-advised gestures, zingers, and the occasional ...
Andrew Breitbart Debacle Just a Warm-Up for Racial Politics Ahead
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyNow that we've had a day or two to reflect after the latest paroxysm of what passes for an examination of racial attitudes, I'm certain of only one thing: A star is born. Shirley Sherrod, the woman at the center of the storm, handled herself with such class and grace that her future is limitless. She gets to do her social justice and civil-rights work on a bigger scale if she chooses, helping bail out the politicians who bailed on her, or maybe she'll run for office herself. She's suddenly a hot property in the very best sense. Beyond that, I hope the new president at the NAACP, Ben Jealous, ...
Boston Globe Endorses Dukakis for Appointment to Kennedy Seat
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAs the Massachusetts Senate prepares to take another step toward authorizing Gov. Deval Patrick to make a temporary appointment to the U.S. Senate, the state's largest newspaper is recommending Michael Dukakis for the job. Dukakis, 75, was the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and the Democratic nominee for president in 1988. ...
Turnabout is Fair Play
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe latest "dust-up" on the campaign trail is providing us with yet another example of why Barack Obama is not your run-of-the-mill, Democratic punching bag. Specifically, it is his ability to turn a negative into a positive that distinguishes him from such political casualties as Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry. Who else could survive such controversies as Reverend Wright and a truly regrettable choice of words used to describe the working poor, and somehow turn these gaffes into opportunities?Mind you, not everyone will see it this way. Hillary Clinton's argument -- that the GOP will ...
Rudy vs. Hillary? Just Relax
By Eric Schulzke - Politics DailyOne already sees signs of triumphalism and despair about the numbers facing Republicans in the race for the White House. Why do Republicans even want the nomination? History gives us the answer: the general election match up polls mean nothing until the stretch run. Just ask this man, Michael Dukakis. ...
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