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...round of drinks were ordered. These politicians-in-training obviously didn’t need any alcohol to loosen their tongues, but we anxiously anticipated what would be unleashed when Sam Adams and José Cuervo joined the roundtable. We gave the group what we imagined to be classic IOP drinking game selections: Do, dump or marry: Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Chirac and Ariel Sharon...
...precedent is any guide, Chris Matthews will ask Al Sharpton tonight at the Institute of Politics (IOP) what his favorite movie is. And if precedent is any guide, it will be his most difficult question of the night. On each of our last two Monday nights of Hardball, the candidate-guest has struggled with the first genuine softball of the evening. The quick-talking Sen. John Edwards was dumbfounded at this simple question, creating a painfully awkward silence while he tried to think of one (which led many to comment that it must have been the one question for which...
These two surprises, one at the IOP and one across the country in California, share more in common than October; they are symbolic of the opposite and concurrent personality disorders of America’s two political parties. On one hand, the right wing is replete with personalities who undermine everything they profess to stand for. Across the aisle, members of a Democratic party, aghast at the hypocrisy of their counterparts’ personalities, seem themselves reluctant to demonstrate any personality...
...flood of lottery entries slightly subsided for the Rev. Al Sharpton’s scheduled appearance at the IOP this coming Monday, with 1,038 registrants for the drawing...
...Iowa, which opens the 2004 electoral season with Jan. 19 caucuses, polls show Dean in a dead heat with Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., who is slated to visit the IOP for a “Hardball” telecast...