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The Boys on the Bus
Perry Bacon Jr., National Reporter, The Washington Post
I flew to New Hampshire the night of the Iowa caucuses on Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's plane, after he had won. We got into Manchester after 4 a.m. and I was pretty groggy as I walked into the Homewood Suites after the press bus dropped us off. But there at the front desk was Huckabee. Read more…
Byron York, White House Correspondent, National Review
I went to a McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia on October 18. It was nothing out of the ordinary, until afterward I came upon a guy who was ranting about media mistreatment of Joe the Plumber. Read more…
Sam Stein, Political Reporter, The Huffington Post
Only when she found out my name and the name of my publication, the vitriol spread like wildfire. I was, it seems, persona non grata amidst the crowd of PUMAs. Read more…
Amy Sullivan, Senior Editor, Time:
The night of the Iowa caucuses, before Obama arrived at the Hy-Vee Hall to give his victory speech, a local drum-and-step group entertained the waiting crowd in a cordoned-off area next to the press pen. The kids were all African-American--the youngest, probably 8-years-old, and the oldest around 15. All over the country, African-Americans were still worried that white voters wouldn't support a black man. Read more…
Michael Scherer, Washington Correspondent, Time:
Back in September of 2007, I spent a couple days at a Republican retreat in an oversized Victorian dollhouse called the Grand Hotel on Makinac Island, Michigan. Most of the Republican candidates came there to speak to state party activists, serving up stump pomp while waiters in white-tie tuxedos served drunk diners with pecan-coated ice cream balls. Read more…
Walter Shapiro, Washington Bureau Chief, Salon
On caucus night at Precinct 69 in Des Moines, I knew that Obama had won the moment that I had to go to the third satellite parking lot because all the spaces were taken – 30 minutes before it was scheduled to begin. Read more…
Ronald Brownstein, Political Director, Atlantic Media
At that point, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s back was against the wall. So I headed to Texas to watch some of her volunteers making the last ditch effort to stave off elimination. With all the creativity that I could muster, I figured Hillary Clinton, back against the wall, Texas—where should I go? I picked the Alamo. Read more…
Update: “Moms on the Bus.” Check out New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s take on juggling motherhood and the campaign trial: “There is no materally correct way to say this,” she writes, “but the things I saw on the road—Obama’s world, the Edwards family trying to hold it together, the Huckabee surge, Iowa, African American voters in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton’s last stand, Denver—were worth the hours away from my daughter.” And on the joys of parent-child fingerpainting: Not possible to sneak a peak at the BlackBerry. Read the full post here.
John Talks Joe
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Once again, nobody has a personal experience or anything nice to say about the Dali bama.
This piece embodies everything I have come to love about the Daily Beast - fresh, smart, cleverly compiled, well written and beautifully organized (VERY IMPORTANT - are you listening HuffPo??) news. If only there weren't all of those silly "read more links" - jeepers, print the whole thing!
I thank you for sharing this story:
"I was interviewing Edwards while his wife Elizabeth looked on-and I happened to notice that she was doing a lot of scribbling. I assumed she was taking notes. At the next stop, as we got off the bus, she handed Raelyn a beautiful pencil portrait she'd done of her, just to kill the time. A nice moment of humanity in the course of a crazy campaign."
As a Black American, living in the South, I want to say thank you to John and Elizabeth Edwards, because without the courage and patriotism you exhibited thouhout the cold and windy Iowa Primary there would not a President Barack Obama. You are both two of the greatest American patriots who have ever lived. Sometimes I wonder John and Elizabeth if you are Angels in disguise. God bless you, and remember
"Black America has your back".
Thank you.
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