Year: 2008

What has Dick Morris been smokin’?

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Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, South Carolina, Dick Morris

Maureen Dowd, on Hillary Clinton:

“It’s odd that the first woman with a shot at becoming president is so openly dependent on her husband to drag her over the finish line.”

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2008 Election, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd

“My fellow Americans, I am sick and tired of not being president,” said Clinton, introducing his wife at a “Hillary ’08” rally. “For seven agonizing years, I have sat idly by as others experienced the joys of campaigning, debating, and interacting with the people of this great nation, and I simply cannot take it anymore. I have to be president again. I have to.”

“Damn, this feels good,” Clinton told supporters as he shook hands in Charleston Monday.

He continued, “It is with a great sense of relief that I say to all of you today, ‘Screw it. I’m in.'”

Heh.

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2008 Election, Bill Clinton

…and the most important thing happening in P Diddy’s life is his announcement that he’s changing his name, again. What in the world are we gonna do?

More insanity, here, here and here.

Oh, and this is complete crap too.

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Celebrity, P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Sean John, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger

He downplays his influence in a hypothetical Billary Administration. Heh, riiiiight.

Hopefully, we won’t have to worry about this.

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Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, President, White House

Fred Thompson will drop out of the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

Fred Thompson plans to drop his presidential bid, FOX News learned Tuesday.

Thompson has begun calling friends, family members and supporters to tell them his campaign is over. He left Nashville Tuesday afternoon for McLean, Va., where he is expected to make an announcement about his campaign as early as Tuesday night.

The former Tennessee senator and actor has not won any early primary or caucus contests and finished third in the South Carolina primary Saturday.

More, from the AP:

“Today, I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort,” Thompson said in a statement.

Thompson’s fate was sealed last Saturday in the South Carolina primary, when he finished third in a state that he had said he needed to win.

In the statement, Thompson did not say whether he would endorse any of his former rivals. He was one of a handful of members of Congress who supported Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2000 in his unsuccessful race against George W. Bush for the party nomination.

See also: CNN, Reuters

Let the VP speculation begin…

MORE: Dan Riehl – “Call it an intervention.”

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2008 Election, Fred Thompson, GOP, Politics, President, Republicans

This is priceless.

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2008 Election, Bill Clinton, Sleepy

…and selfish.

Tad Devine, a Democratic consultant who was a senior adviser to the Democratic presidential candidates in 2000 and 2004, said that even without taking first place in primary states, Mr. Edwards has reason to stay in and possibly influence the result at the nominating convention.

“Even though he doesn’t expect to win, he expects to do well enough to win delegates,” Mr. Devine said. “Anybody who can command 15 percent of the vote and get on the ballot can wind up with literally hundreds of delegates at the convention, and that’s a pretty strong position to be in.”

So, the role Edwards seeks is kingmaker. Meanwhile, he goes out each day acting like he’s working hard to get votes that will benefit him, when in actuality, they’ll end up benefitting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Why then would anyone really vote for John Edwards if their vote ultimately ends up with someone else? Ignorance is bliss with sheep, I guess.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards