It was splitsville last night after the Kentucky and Oregon primaries. Hillary Clinton took Kentucky by a wide margin and Barack Obama took Oregon. In doing so, Obama gained the majority of the delegates though he did not surpass the 2026 needed to gain the nomination. Chris Cillizza, from The Washington Post, will join Ron in HOUR ONE to talk about the options. During his four years at the paper, he reported on campaign politics from the presidential to the congressional level. Chris covered governor's races and southern House races at the Cook Political Report and wrote a column on politics for Congress Daily. His freelance work has appeared in a variety of publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Washingtonian and Slate. He has also been a guest on CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. He currently writes “The Fix” in the political section of The Washington Post. Chris will be followed by Iowa Democratic Party Chair Scott Brennan who just came out this week to endorse Barack Obama.
Joining the show in HOUR TWO will be Bob Nash, Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Campaign Manager. Nash will be on talking about what the future holds for Clinton, whether she will drop out or keep on pushing forward. Nash was President Clinton's White House Personnel Director from 1994-2001. As President Clinton's White House Personnel Director, Nash led the administration's efforts to hire a diverse workforce that represented all Americans. A native of Texarkana, Arkansas, Nash worked on Bill Clinton's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns and Hillary's Senate contests, focusing on reaching out to racial, ethnic and minority groups.
Then-Governor Clinton appointed Nash as President of the Arkansas State Development Finance Authority, where he managed a multi-billion dollar public sector finance institution to support Arkansas' housing, small business and public facilities.
Also joining Ron in HOUR TWO will be Eric Lichtblau. Lichtblau received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for his stories on the NSA's wiretapping program. He has worked in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, covering the Justice Department, since 2002. From 1999 to 2002 he covered the Justice Department for the Los Angeles Times. He will be on today’s show talking about his NYT piece detailing the latest report on military interrogation practices.
Rounding out the show today will be Maria Milito from Q104fm in NYC. She will join Ron to talk about American Idol as she is the “American Idol Princess”.
Plus your calls and much more on American Afternoon with guest host Ron Kuby.
seating the delegates in Michigan and Florida
From what I remember, when Florida and Michigan disobeyed the rules of the DNC and scheduled their primaries too early, Hillary and her reps agreed publicly with the DNC that the states should not be represented at the national convention. However, it was early in the primary campaign, and Hillary had no worry about losing the nomination.
Now Hillary is scrambling for ways to sneak through to victory. Demanding that the states be recognized is one way, she seems to think. It gives her more of the popular vote, and to sway superdelicates to her cause, she's been arguing that she has won the popular vote (if you want to totally ignore the unpublished popular vote from the caucus states, as she wants to do).
Unfortunately, this new position, with regard both to the states of Florida and Michigan, and with regard to the caucus states, reinforces what you said wasn't true: Hillary will twist and bend and contort reality in order to win. It's her dark side. Yes, she's a great competitor, but yes, she'll do anything to win.
I wish you would be able to ask one of her reps why she has suddenly got religion? Why is she supporting Florida and Michigan now when she didn't at first?
And one correction about today's guest. Obama did not campaign in Florida. Hillary did not "campaign" in Florida, but she managed to be in the state a few days before the vote for a fund raising affair. Hmmmm. Now wasn't that clever timing? Sneaky and slick.
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By c robertMay 21, 2008 - 4:38pm