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Obama bounces, Hillary flattens.  Twists and turns in the Demo Presidential campaign got a little wilder this week with Bill Richardson, aka Wolfman Jack, the latest ‘friend’ to turn on Hillary Clinton. It’s almost like “March of the Demos” as one by one the big honchos - Kerry, Kennedy, Richardson - dive into the icy waters that bring the […]

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I have never believed in the notion that the media is inherently liberal. Not while pasty white guys on Fox and Rush Limbaugh and crowd tap into huge audiences with liberal-bashing tirades that are more reality-show style entertainment than any measure of political discourse. The right wing has its own very effective media cabal that rivals anything The New York Times […]

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The Governor of New York Disappears - ”Kristen” Goes Down, Resurfaces - The stunning fall and demise of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer occured in its entirety last week. You could not escape Spitzer and every unfolding minute revelation of his prostitution addiction in print, on TV, radio, or in casual conversation and now poof! he is […]

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So “Kristen” is Monica Lewinsky who was Donna Rice, who is every middle age man’s young girl fantasy. Kristen is 22 (that’s a young girl to me), or 26 years younger than Eliot the horny Gov. Another perverse way of looking at it, she is five years older than Eliot’s oldest daughter. Tell me what the […]

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Goodwill may sound fuzzy wuzzy but it is a critical component of any long-term public relations program, political careeer, or any public or private endeavor. New York Governor Eliot Spitzer may have survived his prostitution sex scandal but the reality is that he had very little goodwill, even among Democrats. Spitzer built his career as […]

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While we wait for Governor Spitzer to cut his deal with the Feds before announcing his resignation, the State and the Lt. Governor are kept in the dark (there is a pun there, yes, since our new Governor is legally blind). The three Spitzer daughters, age 13, 15, 17, are the most tragic victims of this […]

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The turning point for Hillary was Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago. The skit lampooning the media’s gentle handling of Obama, and the all-too-real spoof of Hillary’s latent bitchiness as qualifications to be commander in chief really turned this Dem election into a good old fashioned street brawl. It was time to get […]

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Maneuvering in major political campaigns is all about public relations. This campaign for President has yielded some fascinating PR strategies that have worked at times and more often backfired.
Rudy Giuliani’s strategy to fashion a stump speech that characterized the people of New York as slovenly, out-of-control, criminal liberals bore him the intense animosity of the […]

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POLITICS: Obama to the wire
With Obama handily defeating Clinton in three primaries yesterday (Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington state), the two Democratic party front runners have nearly identical delegate counts. That means that late-stage primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, May 20, Montana and South Dakota, June 3, take on huge importance. The front-loaded Super Tuesday did not anoint the […]

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Hillary takes a thumpin’ in South Carolina, Teddy Kennedy comes out today for Obama, Caroline Kennedy had an impassioned plea for Obama in a NYTimes Op-Ed yersterday, Kerry threw his French chin behind Obama a few weeks ago - for a guy who is about one word - CHANGE - Barack Obama is dragging the fossilized […]

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