Caroline Kennedy Drops Out Of Senate Race

According to the New York Post Caroline Kennedy has dropped out of the race to replace Hillary Clinton as the Senator from New York.
Governor Paterson also admitted on Tuesday to considering state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for the spot. We’ll have more as it develops.

Obama’s Cabinet… so far

Today Barack Obama named his latest additions to the staff naming Clinton, Holder, Napolitano, and Rice to his team. This is his team so far:
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Attorney General [...]

Better Know a Member

Today we’re here with Andy Sookram the Secretary of the College Democrats.
Chris Puntarelli: So Andy what do you do as secretary?
Andy Sookram: What do I do? Everything. I am a key component of this organization, that’s what I’m told.
CP:What brought you to college democrats?
AS: What brought me to college democrats?
CP: That was the question yes
AS: [...]

SHENANIGANS

It’s that time once again. I smell something bad, and it’s not Sarah Palin’s mooseburgers.
I call shenanigans!
This time I’m calling shenanigans on Kevin, Jay, and Derek. Who are these three? Well they are some ill informed, and sometimes outright absurd St. John’s students who seem to want to destroy Senator Obama’s image.
St. John’s University conducted [...]

2008 Democratic National Convention

I recently came out of shock.
The speeches, the emotions, everything was overload. Never would I have imagined that this year would be the year to change history.
We are all making history right now, the 18 million people who voted for Senator Obama, the 18 million people who voted for Senator Clinton. All of us, joined [...]

Analysis that Doesn’t Really Matter: The Veepstakes

We’ve seen over and over again that it would be too difficult for the media (especially the cable TV “news”) to feature significant substance, so instead they focus on water cooler chatter. Big surprise. The topic that’s been swirling around ever since the Obama/Clinton saga ended has been who Sens. Obama and McCain would choose [...]

Dream Ticket Redux?

OK, I have never thought that the whole “dream ticket” idea was too good of an idea, let alone dreamy. While they do have different strengths, I was always more concerned with their diversity and wide array of weaknesses.
For anyone who was paying attention today, Barack and Hillary campaigned together for the first time, according [...]

It’s official. Clinton’s out.

Today, Senator Hillary Clinton officially suspended her campaign and endorsed presumptive nominee Barack Obama. Even though it was, in some people’s opinions, a couple of days late, it was done very appropriately and well. Although the past 16 months have been extremely tiresome and sometimes bitter for both of the candidates, it is my firm [...]

Dear Hillary Clinton Supporters,

Over the past 5 months you all put up the best fight a candidate and her consitutents could. You have helped create the Democratic political machine that will advance the party for years to come. Finally we have a system that is as formidable as the Republicans. I’m sorry that things didn’t work out the [...]

Clinton to back Obama

More news on the democratic primary…. wait no seriously, it’s really over.
Barack Obama has the unofficial nomination of the democratic party. He made a speech yesterday to a roaring crowd of supporters in what could only be described as a rock concert atmosphere.
Senator Hillary Clinton will endorse presumptive democratic nominee Barack Obama on Saturday. According [...]