NY Gov: Comm. Organizer Digs Have Racial Overtones
Culvahouse Faces Challenge for Chairmanship While Vetting for Palin
Arthur “A.B.” Culvahouse Jr. has just weathered a tough week.First came Sarah Palin. Culvahouse, chairman of O’Melveny & Myers and former White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan, was in charge of vetting Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential contenders. When McCain announced his choice of the Alaska governor, Palin’s complicated personal and professional background sparked a series of questions about whether the vice presidential screening process was thorough enough.Meanwhile, Culvahouse was fending off a serious challenge to his chairmanship of O’Melveny. Four other partners ran against Culvahouse for the job, as first reported by Legal Times’ sibling publication The Recorder. Former partners told The Recorder and Legal Times that the crowded chairmanship race in part reflects discontent over Culvahouse’s push for bigger profits at what some say is the expense of firm culture.For now at least, Culvahouse appears to have won on both fronts. He’s likely to hold on to his O’Melveny chairmanship, and Palin’s Republican National Convention performance won praise from Republicans, who saw her as energizing and unifying the party.
CNN’s Ware: McCain ‘has no idea what is going on in Iraq.’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) constantly touts his support of the “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq, how it has “succeeded” and that “we are winning in Iraq.” Last night on CNN, Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware took issue with McCain’s concept of “winning” and said if McCain’s believes that increasing troops was the only factor in reducing violence in Iraq, “then he has no idea what is going on”
Culvahouse Faces Challenge for Chairmanship While Vetting for Palin
Arthur “A.B.” Culvahouse Jr. has just weathered a tough week.First came Sarah Palin. Culvahouse, chairman of O’Melveny & Myers and former White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan, was in charge of vetting Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential contenders. When McCain announced his choice of the Alaska governor, Palin’s complicated personal and professional background sparked a series of questions about whether the vice presidential screening process was thorough enough.Meanwhile, Culvahouse was fending off a serious challenge to his chairmanship of O’Melveny. Four other partners ran against Culvahouse for the job, as first reported by Legal Times’ sibling publication The Recorder. Former partners told The Recorder and Legal Times that the crowded chairmanship race in part reflects discontent over Culvahouse’s push for bigger profits at what some say is the expense of firm culture.For now at least, Culvahouse appears to have won on both fronts. He’s likely to hold on to his O’Melveny chairmanship, and Palin’s Republican National Convention performance won praise from Republicans, who saw her as energizing and unifying the party.
CNN’s Ware: McCain ‘has no idea what is going on in Iraq.’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) constantly touts his support of the “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq, how it has “succeeded” and that “we are winning in Iraq.” Last night on CNN, Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware took issue with McCain’s concept of “winning” and said if McCain’s believes that increasing troops was the only factor in reducing violence in Iraq, “then he has no idea what is going on”
Maddow’s debut beats Larry King, Glenn Beck.
On Monday, Rachel Maddow debuted her new MSNBC show, “The Rachel Maddow Show.” According to Nielson, more viewers tuned in for Maddow’s debut than watched Larry King on CNN or Glenn Beck on CNN Headline News, although Hannity and Colmes on Fox News still held the top slot during that hour:
Biden says McCain reprising 2000 attacks Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican John McCain is aiming the same kind of attacks at Democratic nominee Barack Obama that Biden had defended McCain against during the 2000 White House race.
McCain and Palin castigate the earmarks she seeks Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, equated lawmakers' requests for funding for special projects with corruption on Wednesday even though Palin herself has requested nearly $200 million in so-called "earmarks" this year. Campaigning in Virginia, McCain suggested earmarks are particularly shameful at a time when families are struggling with rising food, gas and home mortgage costs.
McCain and Palin castigate the earmarks she seeks Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, equated lawmakers' requests for funding for special projects with corruption on Wednesday even though Palin herself has requested nearly $200 million in so-called "earmarks" this year. Campaigning in Virginia, McCain suggested earmarks are particularly shameful at a time when families are struggling with rising food, gas and home mortgage costs.
Payback: GOP points to Biden daughter — Call it Palin Payback. — After Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, her teenage pregnancy, and her high school boyfriend were run through the media wringer last week, Republicans are now pointing to Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, to make the case …
HRC defends Obama on ‘lipstick’ — From NBC's Ken Strickland — At a Capitol Hill news conference today, Hillary Clinton defended Obama's “lipstick on a pig” comment, accusing McCain of using the controversy to distract from substantive issues in the campaign.
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