By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Moments before he took the stage in Denver to touch 84,000 people Thursday night, I stood just a few feet away, camera rolling, to capture Sen. Barack Obama, as he touched two dozen voters, picked at random to meet him, in a rare and personal way.
He’s an active listener, engaging, bantering, even comforting with one woman who was so overcome with emotion, she burst into tears.
“Why are you crying?” he asked, hugging her, telling her everything was going to be okay. Read the rest of this entry »
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
While pundits debate Sen. Barack Obama’s VEEP recruiting, vetting running mates down to the wire, filmmaker Michael Moore questions the wisdom of hedging bets with some conservative, smart-ass White Boy who backed the war, like Sen. Joe Biden, or Sen. Evan Bayh, who also has blue collar appeal, or governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine.
So what if they can deliver big blocks of electoral votes if they don’t jive with with what he Stands for, asks Moore in an open letter to Caroline Kennedy asking the Obama running mate adviser to toss her hat into the ring. It could also chill gripes about Sen. Hillary Clinton and conjure excitement over party roots. Read the rest of this entry »
Hillary Clinton Buries Hatchet with Obama; Vows to Help Elect Him.
By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Now we know anything is possible in love, war and politics, as Hillary Clinton makes peace with “what might have been,” and throws her juggernaut team behind Obama.
To hear FOX News tell it, the Republicans pined Hillary wasn’t at the top of the ticket, turning their dump trucks around enroute to the landfill to park the old garbage. How will John McCain attack the enemy now?
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Even as he claimed historic victory stripes with enough delegates to be the first African American Democratic Party candidate for President, Sen. Barack Obama reached out Tuesday night to a crestfallen opponent and praised Hillary Clinton as a crusader for a better America.
But as we all saw, she didn’t leap to congratulate, or resciprocate. She wasn’t ready to throw in the towel. Yet. And that could present a big problem, and some say, a missed opportunity to unite the party at a critical moment. Read the rest of this entry »
By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
ATLANTA, June 4–She’s “absolutely not” planning to toss in the towel, even if South Dakota and Montana go for Sen. Barack Obama as expected, says Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Terry McAuliffe says she aims to keep fighting for uncommitted super-delegates, hoping they will ignore how their states voted to bring her from behind to win her party’s presidential slot. Read the rest of this entry »
Hillary Bean Counters Righteously Indignant…Declare Pop Vote Lead!
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com
It’s all over but the crying.
Yet, to hear Hillary number crunchers spin it, Sen. Clinton walks away with the popular vote over Barack Obama in primaries that end Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota, AND against Sen. John McCain in her own face-off polls.
Just listen to the how-can-this-be-happening indignation from her bean counters in our clip…Hillary insisting she’s got blue collar white males and Hispanics in her hand, crucial demos that seem to be bolstered by victories in Puerto Rico and W. Virginia.
But she’s still losing—and fighting on. Why?
Well, well, well…there’s a personal reason no one has touched on, according to a longtime political reporter who has covered her, that may explain what many pundits cannot. Read the rest of this entry »
Will She Go The Distance, Or Is This The Final Round?
By Bald Truth Staff, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
He was the comeback kid Tuesday, Barack Obama roaring back to win big in a state where he was favored after a full frontal assault, but also scoring big in the politics of expectations, as he fended off Hillary Clinton’s gas tax attack and knocked his firebrand pastor’s spit balls out of the park.
CNN was predicting Clinton would take Indiana, but just barely, its pundits noting senior citizens, over 65 years old, saved the day for Hillary by turning out en mass.
Hillary appeared composed if anguished; her husband hung back, looking puffy around the eyes as if he’d been fighting back tears, or anger that the wave had not broken as they expected. Read the rest of this entry »
By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
“Let me respond in a non-bombastic way,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. said, mocking himself and critics with a wink and a grin to applause and hoots at the National Press Club.
Some got it, some didn’t, but Obama’s pastor was serving up a caustic primer on how black preachers and their flocks relate to each other, and how it can be so easily misunderstood and exploited by the media–and rival candidates sparking America to recoil in ignorance.
To defuse The Rev, we’d like to see an invite to host SNL, where a diet of his brand of wit, would desensitize viewers and perhaps defuse brewing hostilty, much as James Brown did in Boston the night after Martin Luther King., Jr. was assassinated. Read the rest of this entry »
With Sen. Hillary Clinton blasting away at Sen. Barrack Obama on the eve of the crucial Pennsylvannia primary to rescue what she considered, once, hers for the asking –the Democratic party nod for President—we had to ask maybe the top political correspondent in the country, CNN’s John King, do they actually hate each other?Â
“While they publically say they’re friends when this started, the question is will they be friends when this is over,” the veteran politico told The Bald Truth in an exclusive interview in Las Vegas, where we caught up with him at a National Association of Broadcasters campaign roundtable. Read the rest of this entry »
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