New Orleans There are precious few transcending moments in politics, so that whenever a milestone is reached, it is worth noting. Such indeed may be the case with Senator Barack Obama’s speech about race and religion yesterday. In the Omni/Shoreham hotel in Washington yesterday, Stewart Acuff, organizing director for the AFL-CIO, which has taken no …
Month: March 2008
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Washington In trying to sort out the problem in the Democratic primaries of voters in Michigan and Florida being disenfranchised within their party selection systems all manner of proposals have been made defining self-interest within exacting degrees. We have weighed in on the simpler issue that a manual ballot is preferable to a mail ballot. …
Bear Bailout
Washington Mark the date. The party is really and truly finally over on Wall Street, and it’s all about cleaning up now. I’m in DC for some meetings and other business coinciding with the Take Back America Conference, but here at the Shoreham everything overheard at breakfast were the shocked whispers of how Bear …