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“This is something new….”

By | 09.15.08 | 2:52 pm

Last week I wrote about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and how she has changed the model set by the late Clare Boothe Luce, who had set the standard that Republican women were held to for nearly three decades. But no longer. In the piece, I spoke about how Palin’s More…

Ackerman In Afghanistan

By | 09.03.08 | 12:42 pm

As part of my continuing quest to one-up Laura McGann — you guys have been reading her great Alaska stuff, right? — I’ve got an announcement. By this time tomorrow, I’ll be on a plane heading for Afghanistan. I’ll be near the Pakistan border with U.S. troops, trying to More…

Obama Camp Responds to GOP Convention

By | 09.03.08 | 10:30 am

On Wednesday morning, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign rolled out its toughest talking points of this Republican National Convention. Chief Obama spokesperson Bill Burton seized on President George W. Bush’s role in St. Paul, and then tweaked the Republicans for ignoring Americans’ economic challenges:

Obama Drops Another Music Video

By | 09.02.08 | 11:43 am

The rapper will.i.am was all over the Democratic National Convention last week. He was headlining a big concert in downtown Denver on the night of Obama’s speech, and hobnobbing with George Stephanopoulos at a private Huffington Post panel. He’s famous, at least among Democratic delegates, for the music video hit, More…