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DENVER — Former IOP director Jeanne Shaheen gave a brief speech to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Wednesday evening. Shaheen, who is running for senate in New Hampshire, covered a number of domestic and foreign issues in her speech, including the economy and national security. "We need a new economic direction," Shaheen said, whose speech followed NY Sen. Charles Schumer ‘71. "No more country-club economics at the expense of working families and no more tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." Shaheen said that a Barack Obama Administration and Democrat...
...Even Senator John Kerry turned in a strong performance, taking his good friend John McCain down a peg on foreign policy and delivering his brief address with an edge and wit he persistently lacked during his own campaign for President. Kerry drew a distinction between what he suggested were the principled stands of Senator McCain and the expedient ones of "Candidate McCain." Ticking off policies on which McCain had reversed himself, Kerry said, "Talk about being for it before you're against it," playfully reprising one of his own more disastrous statements on the Iraq...
...McCain on the campaign trail. He has forsworn his freewheeling sessions of straight talk with the press, sticking religiously to GOP talking points, bottled up by a campaign that is highly disciplined, curiously hostile to reporters and quick to launch negative and often misleading attacks. During a brief, weird and remarkably uninformative interview, TIME asked him about the abrupt shift in strategy. The candidate who used to spend hours kibitzing with reporters refused to acknowledge that anything has changed. "I don't know what you're talking about," McCain said, staring blankly at a press aide, without even a wink...
...brief appearance Wednesday night onstage at the Pepsi Center, Obama explained to the convention crowd what he hopes to gain from moving his speech outdoors - the first time a major-party nominee has tried it since John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech in 1960. "We want to open up this convention to make sure that everybody who wants to come can join in the party and join in the effort," he said. To him, a huge crowd will illustrate a basic premise of his campaign: "Change in America doesn't start from the top - the top down. It starts from...
Despite falling well short in his brief run for the Democratic nomination, Biden was thought to have performed well and with discipline in what seemed like an endless series of Democratic debates. Most memorable was the line with which he took the sheen off one-time GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11." Democrats realize that with Biden, they are likely to see some occasional errant punches. "I hope so," says one Obama adviser. "Because that will mean he is swinging...