Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Mark Halperin worries about Chinese aggression. He wants the US to raise military expenditures. I worry about the economy. I want the US to cut social expenditures. Neither of these things is going to happen. Let us hope Halperin overestimates a potential enemy. Let us hope I overestimate the limits of taxpayer masochism. Government is [...]
Media Matters (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
In an update to a May 12 entry on his blog, The Page, Time magazine senior political analyst Mark Halperin reported that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) had "use[d]" Atlantic magazine national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg's May 12 interview with Sen. Barack Obama "to accuse Obama of calling Israel a 'constant sore.' " Halperin added, " Obama camp hits back , calling...
Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Analysis: The nod to Obama would have meant more had it come earlier, says Mark Halperin. And three other campaign developments that coincided with it will matter more
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin is predicting a big announcement tonight. Could it be that John Edwards has come off the fence and is going to endorse Barack? Or could this be the start of something bigger - an Obama-Edwards ticket? The website Political Insider is making a strong case for Edwards who was , of course, [...]
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
So hints tragic reporter hero Mark Halperin, who says the Barry campaign will announce a major endorsement between 6:15 and 7:15. Obama will be holding a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan tonight...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
So hints tragic reporter hero Mark Halperin, who says the Barry campaign will announce a major endorsement between 6:15 and 7:15. Obama will be holding a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan tonight...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is planning to announce "a major endorsement" tonight at 6:30 pm ET. Mark Halperin hints it's John Edwards.
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Mark Halperin seems to think so. Whatever the case, stay tuned for 7 PM. ---- There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. - Robert F. Kennedy
Salon: War Room (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Reuters/Lee Celano John Edwards Barack Obama's campaign has been touting what it says will be an announcement of a major endorsement, to be delivered at 7 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. The early speculation -- fueled by a little teaser posted by Time Magazine's Mark Halperin -- is that the endorser will be this primary season's version of Godot, former Sen. John Edwards. (Halperin also...
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... “Clearly it's upsetting” the source tells ABC. “He brings the workers” to Obama. Meanwhile, Time’s Mark Halperin says a source reports that Edwards was on Obama’s campaign plane today. Original Post: The Obama campaign has announced a “major national endorsement” for a rally tonight at 7pm in Michigan, and the rumor mill is swirling that it is none other than Sen. John Edwards. Time’s...
Slog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Yes, I blatantly stole that from Mark Halperin. But that's what he gets for getting that John Denver song stuck in my head all morning. Almost heaven, West Virginia. Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze... Please. Make. It. Stop. But never mind my internal monologue. How will Hillary "Mountain...
All Things Anderson (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... Rapids, Michigan. •The political pundit panel (don't you love the alliteration') on Wednesday was Mark Halperin, Joe Klein and Gloria Borger. •It was nice to get to see at least a part of HRC's interview with Wolf, since I missed most of TSR today. Did anyone else find themselves wishing the camera would have been at a more flattering angle? •John King and his magic map painted a...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Mark Halperin does the math: Number of convincing explanations the Obama campaign has given for why he won't be competitive with Clinton in West Virginia: 0 Number of endgame visits by Obama to West Virginia: 1 Number (as a percentage)...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
over at Politico (it's news that there will be news later tonight, anyway) and rampant speculation that it's Edwards. If so, that will take the wind out of Hillary's West Virginia sails. Other possibilities: Jim Webb, Al Gore. [Update: Mark Halperin is [...]
The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... for the latest high-profile endorsement. ( Update : The event has been moved up to 6:30pm.) Time’s Mark Halperin is teasing the rumor , which he seems to believe is pretty close to being substantiated. Here’s what we know: * Obama is hosting a rally in Grand Rapids tonight. * The Obama campaign has indicated there will be a “ big national endorsement ” tonight. hosts plenty of rallies...
