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Tuesday Primaries: McMahon, Bennet Win
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 11) -- Democrats came off in Tuesday night's primaries as the staid party, not overly eager to rebel against the establishment. Republicans, meanwhile, continued their propensity to take flyers. In Colorado, Sen. Michael Bennet struck a blow for establishment candidates on the line this year by surviving a stiff Democratic primary challenge from former state House speaker Andrew Romanoff. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper ran unopposed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. And in Connecticut, attorney general Richard Blumenthal ran unopposed for the Democratic Senate nomination. ...
Reflecting on Specter (and the Time I Saw Him Naked)
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(May 19) -- I've only met Sen. Arlen Specter once, and though it was a brief encounter, it was a memorable one. He was naked, for starters. In the setting, it was OK to be in the buff: We were sitting in the locker room of Philadelphia's premier gym, The Sporting Club at the Bellevue, and Specter was changing into his clothes. (Gov. Ed Rendell was another frequent guest; in violation of gym rules, he used to throw water on top of the coals inside the sauna.) I introduced myself as a reporter for The Nation and other lefty magazines. In reply, Specter started to sing. I can't remember the ...
Obama Finally Zings Hillary
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyIt only took Barack Obama nine months but he finally came up with a way to counter Hillary Clinton's thinly veiled criticism that "this is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for."In what Maureen Dowd of the New York Times called a "zinger feathered with amused disdain", Obama retorted that notes that "My understanding was that she wasn't Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don't know exactly what experiences she's claiming."Obama's advisors must have been high-fived after that one. Finally, the Illinois Democrat has said what he should have said months ago. ...
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