Posted on 04/28/2003 9:07:43 AM PDT by William McKinley
I found this to be funny. The 'Notepad' is a feature on ABC.com's website where campaigns can put out a 200 word item every day. They are encouraged to be irreverent in it, but it has to be 200 words or less.
That highly intelligent trial lawyer John Edwards submitted his for today:
Dateline: Room 629, Center of New Hampshire Holiday Inn, Manchester (via Blackberry):Lawyer: a person who can write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief. —Jennifer Palmieri, for the Edwards campaign.For Senator John Edwards this weekend, it was non-stop, grilling debate prep sessions broken up by a star-studded dinner Saturday night.
This debate prep was no "inside the beltway" Ginsbergian enterprise, but a series of q and a sessions from regular Americans in New Hampshire.
And the star-studded dinner? The Cheshire County Spaghetti Dinner in Keene, where the combo of John Edwards' barn burner speech (he got a standing ovation and it wasn't because they were getting up to leave!) and the surprise appearance of media starlet Dean Broder left the Keenians swooning.
If Elliott Stephanopoulos' father is having a hard time coming up with tough issues for next weekend... here's a sampling of what's on the mind of Granite Staters: corporal punishment (okay, eventually it became clear that the questioner was talking about "capital punishment," not "corporal punishment." But it gave our Senator an opportunity to brush up on the issue nevertheless), public financing for Congressional elections (yep, Granny D is still making her annual pilgrimage to the S'ghetti Feast), and how are we going to defeat Bush (giving our Senator the opp to prove again and [TRUNCATED BY NOTE EDITORS DUE TO LENGTH]
Ladies. Gentlemen. Halperin.Love the zinger at Kerry.200 words. One could do a lot of damage in 200 words... But before I make passing reference to Lieberman's Irish-catholic roots, allow me, in the best tradition of the Note, to begin by simply stating the obvious.
That being: While each campaign was given explicit instructions for their submissions (200 words, in by pub date, no a cappella submissions accepted,) all of us are also operating under certain unwritten rules.
And while the vast majority of the Note's politically savvy readers already know what those are, for the benefit of our Washington Times subscribers, allow me to use the first of our five pre-debate missives to make those plain:
1) Absolutely no real debate strategy will be unveiled in this forum.
2) Ditto debate positioning.
3) Feints will probably abound.
4) But if so, most will be absurdly transparent.
5) None of these rules apply to Kucinich.
So with that said, let me close by saying that not enough has been said about the Dixie Chicks; for my money, nothing's better than reality TV; and something tells me that come tomorrow Craig Smith will rethink his suggestion that I just write whatever comes into my head.
—Jano Cabrera, for the Lieberman campaign.
I have absolutely no chance of ever becoming the President of the United States.
(and only 14 words!)
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