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  • As Race Wanes, Talk of Clinton as No. 2 Grows

    05/23/2008 9:30:58 AM PDT · by The_Republican · 33 replies · 131+ views
    NYT ^ | May 23rd, 2008 | PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY
    While Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers insist that she is determined to win the Democratic nomination, friends of the couple say that former President Bill Clinton, for one, has begun privately contemplating a different outcome for her: As Senator Barack Obama’s running mate. The reports about Mr. Clinton’s musings surface as the Obama camp has quietly begun the process of searching for a partner on the Democratic ticket. The prospect of an Obama-Clinton ticket has been fodder for political gossip for months, with some Democratic leaders pushing the idea as a way to unify the party. The Obama...
  • Heilemann on Obama’s Sister Souljah Moment

    04/30/2008 9:55:52 PM PDT · by The_Republican · 7 replies · 92+ views
    NY Mag ^ | April 30th, 2008 | John Heilman
    “April is the cruelest month,” wrote T.S. Eliot, and it’s difficult to imagine that Barack Obama and his people would in any way disagree. For the past 29 days, Obama has suffered through the rockiest stretch of his bid for the Democratic nomination — a period in which he rarely won a news cycle, as a series of blunders and controversies made it seem increasingly as though he was losing control of the narrative of his campaign and of his public image. Then came his extraordinary press conference yesterday, in which Obama sought both to make a clean break with...