I really cannot stand the extended, 2-year Presidential campaign, so I was generally ignoring the goings-on in each race during 2007. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'm ready to jump in. First place to look, each campaign's web site. Let's see where they stand on the issues, since I don't want to pay attention to the media's "horserace" drumbeat. Here are some links (I know, you can Google them yourself...):
Hillary Clinton
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson
Posted by wdpankow
at 01:53 PM
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An interesting take on the way messages from each of the (top 3) Democratic campaigns are presented.
Declaration - Request - Promise: Lead - Lobby - Legislate
Future - Present - Past::Obama - Edwards - Clinton.
Future is to Present is to Past as
Leadership is to Lobbying is to Legislating.
DECLARATIONS
Leaders create the future. They bring it forth. They declare it. They speak, and in the moment of their speaking, the future is.
John F. Kennedy and we SHALL put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
In that moment, we "shall it," all of us, the entire country. Kennedy declared our future. He brought it forth. He languaged it. And as one, we moved forward to meet the challenge, more or less, together.
If you were alive July 20, 1969, and of a certain age and in the western world, you watched as Jack Kennedy's declaration unfolded. I was ten years old and I remember everything.
That's leadership in action. Leaders make DECLARATIONS.
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Posted by wdpankow
at 01:38 PM
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As if you need me to tell you...
Democrats:
Obama 940 38% 16
Edwards 744 30% 14
Clinton 737 29% 15
Richardson 53 2% 0
Biden 23 1% 0
Uncommitted 3 0% 0
Dodd 1 0% 0
Gravel 0 0% 0
Kucinich 0 0% 0
Republicans:
Huckabee 39,814 34% 17
Romney 29,405 25% 12
Thompson 15,521 13% 3
McCain 15,248 13% 3
Paul 11,598 10% 2
Giuliani 4,013 4% 0
Hunter 515 1%
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at 10:06 AM
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2008 already off to a good start...
Michigan 41, Florida 35 - Capital One Bowl, Orlando, FL
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at 06:34 PM
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