In Small Towns, Bill Clinton Finds A Campaign Niche
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 5th, 2008 4:30 am by HL
In Small Towns, Bill Clinton Finds A Campaign Niche
LUMBERTON, N.C. — Bill Clinton swung open the screen door and stepped onto Baxter Williams’s front porch, its wooden floorboards creaking beneath him. The former president, a veteran speechmaker used to 50,000-seat stadiums and convention halls, sipped from a bottle of water and took in his latest…
The Willie Horton of the 2008 Campaign?
Conduct a thought experiment: Imagine that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor to presidential candidate Barack Obama and preacher with controversial views, was not an outspoken black man but a white woman who penned her controversial ideas in a scholarly journal. If Wright’s views were the o…
