Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Media Love of Obama Doesn't Equal Victory Wednesday, July 23, 2008 By Susan Estrich Some years ago, a friend of mine who was then District Attorney of Los Angeles held a press conference on the beach with a couple of high-powered celebrities to trumpet efforts to use the criminal law to crack...
The Coalition of the Swilling (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
major dad points us to this Susan Estrich column. It sounds a warning chime for Team Obambi, but I'll betcha they're not listening. ...The problem with all this fawning is threefold. First of all, the fact that the press doesn’t...
Common Sense and Wonder (Free subscription) | yesterday
Very good piece from Susan Estrich: The problem with all this fawning is threefold. First of all, the fact that the press doesn’t push doesn’t mean that, sooner or later, the Republicans won’t. They will. Every question the press doesn’t ask and Obama doesn’t have to answer will be the subject of a speech at the [...]
neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Remember one of the main agents of the downfall of Presidential nominee Mike Dukakis? It was his failure to respond with sufficient vigor to his wife Kitty’s rape-murder when posited as a hypothetical in one of the Presidential debates. Here’s the story (strangely, it involves Susan Estrich again): Because she knew the Willie Horton issue would [...]
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... to say that Obama’s midsummer lead is comparable to Dukakis’s. That’s why Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich says that she’s nervous . After all, Dukakis lost. What’s more important, one would expect Obama to be doing much better than he is. He has set all-time records for fundraising and has ignited enthusiasm in a way that the icy Dukakis never could. And 2008 offers Democrats...
