Bird’s-Eye View

We rolled through the scenic western countryside of Lancaster County, but this did not impress the press on Barack Obama’s bus tour.
We passed a few Amish farms. But this, too, did not impress the press.
The Washington Times reporter who’s on the media bus with the likes of the New York Times, Time Magazine, NBC News […]

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ALLENTOWN - The Barack Obama show has pulled into Muhlenberg College, and he’s addressing another boisterous crowd. In the meantime, I’m catching up on what’s happening outside the “bubble” of the traveling press pool. In other words, what’s happening in the world outside of the campaign bus.
Read on CNN.com that Obama’s rival, Hillary Clinton, made […]

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On the bus right now after a visit in a rainy Reading and now making our way to an event at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. Having a difficult time a.) finding something to eat and b.) trying forget getting car sick.
There are two buses following Barack Obama, and they’re packed with press. Bus one carries […]

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11:47 a.m. No calls for Clinton to drop out of the race. No question about Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama told the crowd he believes the Democrats will unite no matter who’s the nominee because, apparently, Clinton is a better alternative than McCain, according to Obama.
Obama’s out after an hour and 20 minutes. I’m out, too. Obama’s […]

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HARRISBURG – Once the stories are filed, once the editors’ questions are answered, once the laptop is turned off, there is only one thing journalists on the traveling press pool must do … eat and drink.
 
By 10 p.m., I hadn’t eaten since before noon, and taking an invitation from the Washington Post and New York […]

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STATE COLLEGE - Just finished the State College rally. 22,000 people bundled in the cold to watch a senator from Illinois talk about health care, foreign policy, education and the environment. He spoke for about 45 minutes, and many of those people waited in line and then waited in the viewing areas for as much […]

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I can’t remember a single election, whether municipal, legislative or statewide, where the words “fiscal responsibility” doesn’t enter into the campaign dialogue.

And in a presidential election where millions upon millions of dollars are donated and spent at dizzying rates, that doesn’t immune candidates like Hillary Clinton from monetary issues. Indeed, if you want it […]

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“Drives can change your life,” my friend Jan said before telling a story about how in 1970 he graduated from Millersville University, set to become a teacher in Australia but because of a roadtrip he took with a buddy ended up serving as an Air Force pilot in Vietnam.
 
In Jan’s car, we passed through gray-brown […]

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First, there was New Hampshire. Barack Obama could end the candidacies of his Democratic rivals including the once heavily-favored Hillary Clinton with a victory there. Didn’t happen.
Then it was Super Tuesday, Feb. 5. Clinton or Obama could deal the other a knockout blow. Didn’t happen.
Ohio and Texas? With victories in at least one, pundits argued, […]

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Gov. Ed Rendell appearing on the Charlie Rose Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXYDNibSbOo

This hasn’t been a good week for President Clinton. Rendell’s here saying Hillary Clinton is better prepared for the White House than he was in 1992, echoing what Chelsea Clinton said yesterday.

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