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MICK CORNETT, Oklahoma City mayor, challenging the city's residents--among the most obese in the U.S.--to shed a collective 1 million pounds in the New Year...
...group, which included seven Democrats and six Republicans who have served as governors, Senators and Congressmen, listed eight challenges facing the next President. Convened by former Oklahoma Senator David Boren, the bipartisan group included former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. While the meeting drew attention for its discussion of a possible third-party candidacy in the 2008 election, the panel's most valuable contribution was that way it detailed - and did not sugarcoat - the nation's challenges over the next decade. Amid a campaign that is often criticized for shortchanging voters on a substantive...
John Danforth, former Missouri Senator, said that U.S. politics is plagued by "one-upmanship" and a tendency by both sides to appeal to their loyal and often uncompromising flanks, rather than the political middle. The sessions in Oklahoma were "intended to be a catalyst for people in the center of American politics who believed that they had been marginalized," said Danforth, a Republican. The bipartisan group urged candidates in a statement to "go beyond tokenism to appoint a truly bipartisan cabinet with critical posts held by the most qualified people regardless of their political affiliation...
...turned Republican turned unaffiliated mayor of New York City, might run--and spend $1 billion of his personal fortune on the effort. Both Nunn and Hagel have suggested they would accept an offer to be Bloomberg's running mate. Though publicly coy, Bloomberg is the animating force behind the Oklahoma meeting, and his aides have been feverishly laying the groundwork for an independent campaign in case, as one describes it, "the window of opportunity opens." And if it doesn't--and it probably won't--moderates will have to wring their hands for another four years...
...Hampshire primary that his fifth place finish was, in actuality, "a three-way tie for third place." But there's danger in the viability strategy, danger exemplified by Howard Dean. After finishing a disappointing third in '04, Dean declared: "We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico. We're going to California and Texas and New York, and we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House." Then, Dean let out the yawp heard round...