Ad Paid for by the McCain Campaign Seeds Clouds over Denver
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
We’re off to see old friends on the political trail in Denver for the Democratic Convention and eager to see if the mile high drama gives Sen. Obama a boost in the polls, narrowing recently between him and Sen. John McCain.
Keep an eye on ET and The Insider, for our behind the scenes reports, and when we can blog, we will.
As for McCain’s ad mocking a Denver coronation, it comes on the heels of the Vietnam War hero forgetting how many homes he had, in response to a reporter’s question. Obama made hay with that (”I’ve got one, he’s got seven”), then the McCain camp was quick to fire back that BO shouldn’t be slinging bricks, mortar and mud. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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 »
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 »
From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Hillary invoking the Gods of comedy to get her out of a pinch. First, there was the sniper fire she dodged. Not. Then invoking the underdog pugilist, Rocky, still a viable damage control option…
We’re just watching her next move in the delegate hustle, last count, about 135 behind Obama. But like Rocky, she “never gives up.”
Barack, you got no choice, you got to just keep bashing to win.
Will Rocky Help Hillary and The Mansion Madam Go The Distance?
From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Hillary Clinton …. and the Mansion Madam?
Just look at who Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky is inspiring these days…And Thursday night, Jay Leno had the Tonight Show band play the Rocky theme song as the former First Lady sashayed onto the set … a little good-natured ribbing of the former First Lady for entering Rocky Rehab.
Down in delegate count, down in the polls, Hillary embraces America’s underdog icon…casting herself as The Contender, maybe down for the count, but not out of the fight? Right. Read the rest of this entry »
By John Nazarian, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
And the band played on, what is going on? I am probably more confused now as to the criminal justice system than when I started my career many years ago!
Now I know that the system is good, and for the most part works. The prosecutors on this case are right on top of their game and seldom if ever miss a beat!
By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
With the implosion of N.Y. Gov. Elliot Spitzer for frequenting the same high-priced escorts he enjoyed busting as a prosecutor, we’ve compiled a farewell rogues gallery so he won’t feel so alone.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey resigned in 2004 confessing an affair with another man, but this week The Other Man, the former driver, revealed the Gov was really bisexual and that he’d been the third wheel with McGreevey and wife, Dina, for years. He only came forward in the New York Post, he said, after hearing the ex-wife trash Gov. Spitzer as a hypocrite.
“Not only would I not knowingly have married a gay man, but I would never have allowed a gay man to father my child,” wrote Dina Matos in her memoir last year. Mid-divorce, the ex- first couple of New Jersey has a 6-year-old daughter, Jacqueline. Read the rest of this entry »
Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
A day after his landslide victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary, Senator Barack Obama won another surprise endorsement from the princess of an American political dynasty — Caroline Kennedy.
The daughter of the late President, who energized the nation as a symbol of youth, passion and hope before he died form an assassin’s bullet in a Texas motorcade, wrote in Sunday’s New York Times that Obama reminded her of her late father, and the ideals he believed in. Read the rest of this entry »
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