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20th November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘clinton’

Is it over?

By Denis Campbell • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics
Can we come out now and go back to our lives? No? Barack has won but Hillary has not conceded? Aaaaargh! I feel like I did living in LA during the OJ Simpson trial. Will the government offer any counselling or addiction relief therapy to political junkies who will have scant little to do between [...]



Top Ten Democratic T-Shirts

By Denis Campbell • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics
The new magic number of 2,118 delegates to nominate is here and now that Michigan and Florida have been seated via compromise, it appears we have a nominee, even though we have a fractured party. So I spent this past weekend thinking about a new business and T-shirt ideas for this coming week announcing the [...]



Denver, Sioux Falls, Billings, San Juan… Aboooaaarrd!

By Denis Campbell • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Features, Lead Story
The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split [...]



I’ll Go Away, No… Wait A Minute

By Denis Campbell • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Features
I felt today a cross between Bobby, the unmarried suffering star of the 70’s hit musical Company and country singer Lorrie Morgan, who sang the 1998 country music hit ‘Go Away.’ The “I’m conceding, no I’m not” antics of the Clinton campaign today have been tragic to follow. Bobby struggled though George Furth’s 11 scatological, 1-act plays set [...]



She Said What?!?!?!

By Denis Campbell • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Features
In yet another incident of foot in mouth disease, Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday voiced the unspoken/unthinkable fear of many by cravenly invoking the horrible memory of 1968’s assassination of Bobby Kennedy in California before a group of South Dakota news editors. Her half-hearted apology for the gaffe seemed as self-protecting and disingenuous as her explanation [...]



Nuclear Options Have Unpredictable Fallout

By Denis Campbell • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features
We wrote about the so-called “nuclear option,” Senator Hillary Clinton is hoping to invoke during the 31 May Convention Rules and By-Law committee meeting. Simply, she wants to use her 13-supporting delegates to push through the seating of the entire Florida and Michigan delegations at full strength.
Florida and Michigan did not play by party rules [...]



Op-Ed Column of the Day

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
Victory Plan for Hillary (click to see full article on nyt.com)
By GAIL COLLINS/Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times Online
Published: May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. Trounced Barack Obama, who is consistently described as the inevitable presidential nominee.
Hard to know exactly what to do with this information.



Full Contact Political Sport

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics
Would George W. Bush stand for pointed questions on live TV from Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain if forced weekly to endure a forum such as the UK’s Wednesday noon mosh pit a.k.a. Prime Minister’s Question time? This is a place where every member of the House, in theory, can ask questions of the PM and his government.  [...]



For 33 Years, “Live, from New York…It’s Saturday Night”

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Features, Lead Story
This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane [...]



Hillary’s W in WV – Yawn, Real Story is Red State Mississippi

By Denis Campbell • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Features
338,000 people voted to assign 26 delegates or .6% of total delegates in play and captured the media spotlight for a week as the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton steel cage match went another breathless round, while reddest of Republican states Mississippi, ignored the personal campaigning of Vice President Dick Cheney as the Democrat Travis Childers won [...]