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8 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘clinton’

The 16-Month Marathon Continues

By Denis Campbell • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
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It has been an amazing primary season. The pundits, media and bloggers around the world have been breathless schoolchildren for the past 116 years as the contests pile up like weekly train wrecks and the Big MO’ (Baby!) swings back and forth like Boston Red Sox DH Big Papi Ortiz’s spring bat, erratically but when [...]



Hillary’s Nuclear Option

By Denis Campbell • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
No we’re not talking about her threat to wipe Iran off the face of the earth if they attack Israel. This nuclear option is her plan for winning the nomination at the convention in Denver.
Simply, the plan under wraps and labelled “secret” at Hillary HQ is a page out of former advisor to her husband’s [...]



Please Make it Stop!

By Denis Campbell • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Features
Citizens of Indiana and North Carolina, please help stop the madness”. Only you can give us our lives back and stop the death spiral of the Democratic Party. You’ve had your 15-minutes, please find a way to stop the insanity. Until tomorrow, or June, or September we feel obligated to present “He Said, She Said” the [...]



On Race and Differences

By Denis Campbell • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Features
Gary Younge of The Guardian Newspaper wrote a disturbingly true piece on the growth of race as the key issue in the current US Presidential election. Younge, a black man, speaks openly about the Clinton candidacy’s cynical use of race to destroy Barack Obama’s electability. As a person of colour, as I believe we all [...]



Mugabe Maths?

By Denis Campbell • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Features
Geoff Garin, Clinton strategist was complaining yet again about the double standard Senator Clinton is getting from the press, an argument heard since Super Tuesday with the famous Saturday Night Live “pillow fluffing” sketch.
The media abandoned Senator Obama out of fear and he managed to stay on message against a rising tide of negative attack [...]



The Winner? John McCain!

By Denis Campbell • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics
2. 4 million Pennsylvania voters spoke last night besting 2004’s anemic 800,000 votes cast (and that contest was already decided). No matter how you slice the numbers three times as many voters turned out, more than 150,000 of them newly registered. Both candidates won their core constituencies and



An Exhausting 7-Week Marathon

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
Fitting that the day after the Boston Marathon, 20 grueling miles to the top of Heartbreak Hill and then 6 long downhill miles, the Democratic candidates are near the line for the latest head-to-head battle in Pennsylvania. 



69 to -2

By Denis Campbell • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
That’s the number of Super Delegates since February 5th that have declared for Sen. Obama vs. Sen. Clinton in the Democratic primary races. Margaret Campbell (no relation), a state legislator from Montana added yesterday to this growing group and trend.



Can I Have Some Ketchup with that Candidate Please?

By Denis Campbell • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Features
I feel like I’m watching one of those retro cartoons where the two characters are being slowly nibbled away from the ground up until the only thing left will be two talking heads and one of them disappears.
Yes, it is the most exciting and dramatic campaign in the history of modern US politics. Every Tuesday [...]



Time for “Silly Season” in Earnest

By Denis Campbell • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
It’s already beginning…
“I have heard that Obama has said publicly, that he does not salute the American flag and will not. The other rumor is that he was said to have admitted that if elected, he will not use the bible, but the Koran for his inauguration.”
“Did you hear that Hillary Clinton was implicated in [...]