Bill Clinton steps up to the plate for President Obama and plays serious hardball against Mitt Romney, using Osama bin Laden, in this new campaign video.
One of the peculiar features of modern elections is the campaign conference call with the political press. It’s like the bastard child of the press conference and the press release, a talking press release if you will.
They rarely if ever feature the candidate. Campaign aides and flacks usually take the lead. But there’s a subset of these calls in which specific issue-area experts stand in, and those are the ones that can get a little unpredictable. For the Romney campaign, they’ve been especially unpredictable and oddly gaffe-prone for a campaign that by virtually every metric is professionally and tightly run.
Jon Stewart: Rupert Murdoch’s like an Australian Mr. Magoo.
I think this is right, from TPM Reader EA:
I can’t ever remember a Democrat being so aggressive in attacking an opponent’s foreign policy and national security nonsense. It shows a comfort with toughness that [reflects] both the accomplishments of the administration and hopefully also some political maturity.
This is the weekend that New York and Hollywood invade DC for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, at its heart still a charity event, but one that has taken on a life and culture of its own. Let the parties begin.
Somehow Republican primary voters managed to pick the one presidential candidate who’d said on the record that it wasn’t worth trying to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. And the Obama campaign hasn’t forgotten.
A remarkable shot of the Shuttle prototype Enterprise over New York City this morning.
Some evidence emerging that the tide is turning against the anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment in North Carolina