Bird’s-Eye View

12:37 p.m. McCain’s exiting now. Nothing much new, and he’s exiting to the (CLICHE ALERT! CLICHE ALERT!) the Rocky theme. McCain’s not learning much from Clinton’s failures. She invoked Rocky but forget the movie involves a white boxer who went toe-to-toe but did not defeat the charismatic African-American champion with a funny name.
12:33 p.m. WOW! […]

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You know, the Associated Press with this man-on-the-street article sums it up about right. Regardless of who was right and whether Obama messed up with his characterization of “bitter” small towners “clinging” to guns and religion, the slapfest that’s followed appears to be worse.
And this fracas may finally prompt Democratic Party leaders to say enough is […]

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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Gov. Ed Rendell, in Pittsburgh yesterday to rally volunteers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, said the latest controversy over what a presidential candidate said — Sen. Barack Obama’s comment that small-town Pennsylvanians cling to guns and religion out of frustration and bitterness over job losses — “shows a pretty significant lack of […]

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Among the Top Ten things you wouldn’t want to happen as a campaign hits the crucial stretch run? Lose your top strategist and pollster.
Mark Penn, a major architect in Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency, ran into a conflict-of-interest when, as the Wall Street Journal reported, he met with Colombia representatives about a trade deal […]

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