The Wall Street Journal reports that a high-profile event of the "people's inauguration" will be aired exclusively on HBO. The premium cable channel has signed a deal with the Presidential Inaugural Committee to televise 90-minutes commercial-free from the "Opening Celebration"...
A blockbuster for nearly a year, the presidential showdown ends its run Tuesday. If it lives on as a Hollywood movie, here's our picks for the cast, based entirely on looks: Campaign 2008...
It happened last week in Tampa, Fla. The speaker, Jim Piccillo, a Florida Republican who is supporting the Democratic ticket, said afterward that he had no idea he'd flubbed the intro until heard agbout it on the radio on his...
Thanks for joining us. We're going to use our new live blogging format again to cover tonight's debate. Feel free to leave comments in the usual area at bottom of the live blog area....
There's a bunch of stuff scheduled for Day 3 (of 4) at the Democratic National Convention, but only two speakers that anyone give's a horse's patootie about: Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden. Biden is the prime-time headliner (no matter how...
Charlie Wilson -- he of "Charlie Wilson's War" fame -- rallied a midday gathering of Texans Monday with a call to end the war in Iraq. The former Texas congressman said the U.S. should have kept its focus on Afghanistan...
In Springfield, Ill., on Saturday, Joe Biden sought to portray John McCain as joined at the hip to President Bush. "You can't change America when you supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time," Biden said. Count on the...
In an interview with Todd Gillman, U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards of Waco says the antics of a similarly named, slick-talking, lying philanderer probably helped sink his chances of becoming Barack Obama's running mate. The other guy went on television to...
Staff Writer John Riley has compiled a list of interesting biographical facts about the Democrats' vice presidential candidate. Among them: He was a lousy law student. His first wife and daughter were killed in a car wreck just after...
At first, The New York Times reports, Barack Obama "was not entirely sold on" Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware as his running mate. The story decribes how that sentiment changed over two months, through "one of the most rigorous vice-presidential...
Here are the texts of the remarks by Barack Obama and Joe Biden Saturday in Springfield, Ill. Looks to me like the Obama text -- from a Chicago Sun-Times blog -- is the candidate's official prepared remarks, as released to...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Saturday that Rep. Chet Edwards was in the running to be Barack Obama's running mate until the end of the process that resulted in his selection of Joe Biden. "He was (in it until...
Expect much bloviating today, and tomorrow, and the next day, about the wisdom of Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate. (Whether the selection is deemed a good one or a bad one, of course, will...
So Barack Obama -- whose campaign, top to bottom, is a lot more high-tech than John McCain's -- was going to announce his selection of a running mate digitally, in a way that no presidential candidate had ever done it...
Karl Rove weighed in this morning on Democratic vice presidential pick Joe Biden, saying his long experience in the Senate only reminds voters that Barack Obama doesn't have much. It was classic Rove: Attack an opponent's strength, make it a...
Will the Catholic faith of Sen. Joseph Biden (right, with wife Jill) help or hurt the Democratic ticket? How about his pro-choice stance on abortion? See what one religiously savvy observer thinks over on our Religion blog....
According to John McCain's campaign, Joe Biden thinks an Obama-Biden ticket is a bad idea -- and not because of the "Biden" part. Shortly after Barack Obama announced his choice of a running mate, McCain's spokesman Ben Porritt said: There...
In case you weren't one of the select many who signed up to get Barack Obama's text announcement of his choice for a running mate, here's what went out just after 2 a.m. Dallas time: Barack has chosen Senator...
News and to the Associated Press that Joseph Biden is Barack Obama's running mate. Highly unlikely that they and CNN are all wrong. The quick AP dispatch: By LIZ SIDOTI and NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack...
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