Election season nominally begins with the candidates announcing their campaigns; it truly begins with the first knife fight.Election season nominally begins with the candidates announcing their campaigns; it truly begins with the first knife fight. The Clinton and Obama camps had that little rumble, thanks to David Geffen and Maureen Dowd Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times.[1][2] She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. . Geffen, the liberal Hollywood mogul (is there any other kind?), co-hosted a party that raised $1.3 million for Senator Obama, despite having raised $18 million for Bill Clinton in the past. Worse, he told Dowd Dowd is a derivation of an ancient surname which was once common in Ireland but is now quite rare. The name Dowd is an Anglicisation of the original Ui Dubhda, through its more common form O'Dowd. that the GOP was digging up dirt on Bill; that Hillary is unable to say "I made a mistake" about voting to authorize the Iraq War Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. ; and that both Clintons are liars: "Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling." So the Clinton campaign demanded that Obama condemn Geffen and return his money, to which the Obama campaign replied that the Clintons had no problem with Geffen when they let him sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom The Lincoln Bedroom is a bedroom on the second floor of the White House, part of a guest suite of rooms that includes the Lincoln Sitting Room. The room is named for Abraham Lincoln and was used by him as an office. . Quick conventional wisdom scored St. Barack the loser, for letting his people play politics like ordinary folk. We are not so sure, since the Illinois senator reminded people of the Clintons' general ickiness. In any case, America will be embroiled em·broil tr.v. em·broiled, em·broil·ing, em·broils 1. To involve in argument, contention, or hostile actions: "Avoid . . . with this grotesque couple--Hillary and Bill--for the next twelve months, at least. |
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