New Orleans Senator Barak Obama became the only presidential candidate to actually make it to the state before Saturday’s primary. He spoke at Tulane University, but in other ways this was classic campaigning as I read the Times-Picayune story. First, he had a taste of Chicago transplanted to New Orleans: Obama also …
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Clinton’s Wet Kiss
Denver Seeing President Clinton as he walked up to speak last spring at the Anniversary banquet at Citigroup for New York ACORN, he told me that he had given ACORN in his inimitable words, ” a big wet kiss” in the book he was currently finishing. Now that Bill Clinton’s Giving: How Each of Us …
Oliver’s Fall
Buenos Aires A calm and groggy morning followed the overnight flight from Houston punctuated by a cup of chicory coffee brought from New Orleans to the troops in Buenos Aires. Ravioli lunch at a parrilla, a great siesta, and wonderful pizza at Burgio on Cabildo, and I felt I was finding my place …