Without a link, Drudge reports the Des Moines Register will make their endorsement late Saturday. John Edwards got it last time around. But get a load of this coming out in the New York Times on the wooing process. The Clinton folks have had a parade through the offices, including Bill, Clark, Albright until one editor said the political machines were off-putting.
A final burst of courtship unfolded Thursday at a nationally televised Democratic debate moderated by Ms. Washburn, who had been criticized by candidates at a Republican debate the previous day for discouraging them from engaging one another aggressively and for asking them to raise their hands to answer a question on global warming.
As the Democrats debated, Mrs. Clinton chimed in, “Carolyn, do you want to ask us to raise our hands about global warming?” None of the candidates left the stage before stopping to shake Ms. Washburn’s hand, the final act to a methodical pursuit that began shortly after the presidential campaign got under way nearly 10 months ago.
As the board’s decision neared, efforts at persuasion peaked, particularly from the Clinton campaign. Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, a leading surrogate, made an unsolicited call to Ms. Washburn. Calls to the board’s office were also made by former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Gen. Wesley Clark, each of whom had been given the task of raising a different element of Mrs. Clinton’s experience.
“When Gen. Wesley Clark called, I was on deadline and I needed to get some pages out,” Ms. Hunter said in an interview in her office, which was filled with stacks of position papers and campaign literature. “And I had to just tell him, ‘I’m sorry, General Clark, if you want to call me later, that’s fine,’ but I had other work to do.”
Pausing for a moment, she added in a cheerful voice: “At a certain point, celebrity isn’t going to wow us. In that sense, it can almost be off-putting. You sort of felt the power of the political machines at times, really trying to put the pressure on.”
I came across and interesting idea. Future news. Here is my attempt:
China shocks the world by revealing the first completely pollution free coal fired power plants are supplying energy to the Olympics. Every gram of carbon the plants produced is trapped and recycled.
In further news it is announced that you may save the environment by getting drunk. Distilled spirits manufacturers finally realized that they could trap and recycle CO2 produced by sour mash fermentation by adding just a little extra plumbing.
And finally, one of the largest sources of waste paper was eliminated as phone books the world over went on an "opt in" system. After it was realized that many people who communicate via cell phone and internet never even open a phone book, it was easy to cut the number of phone books produced in the world by 90%.
Posted by: poetryman69 | Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 07:21 PM