By James Oliphant
Tribune correspondent
October 28, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Here’s one random sampling from a battleground state, with some margin for error.
“I just want it to end,” my father says. “Make it stop.”
The phone has just rung, and he knows the number. Knows not to answer. “It’s just them,” he mutters.
“Them,” by the way, is a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Obama’
October 28, 2008
Battleground fatigue: A letter from Columbus
October 22, 2008
Biden: No brain scans for aneurysms
The Chicago Tribune reports that among recent medical records released by Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, there are no scans that might indicate the potential for another dehabilitating aneurysm such as the ones he suffered 20 years ago. Biden, 65, had multiple brain surgeries following the attacks.
Here’s the report:
Newly released medical records [...]
September 4, 2008
Obama: ‘Who are they fighting for?’
Barack Obama addresses reporters at a hydroelectric turbine plant in York, Pa.
YORK, Pa.–Barack Obama said Thursday he wasn’t surprised by the ferocity of Republican attacks this week during the party’s convention in St. Paul.
“This is what they do,” Obama told reporters after a campaign event at a plant in York. “They don’t have an agenda [...]
September 3, 2008
Obama: McCain wants ‘campaign to be about biography’
Writ Large is on the road this week, embedded with the Barack Obama campaign.
DILLONVALE, Ohio—The politician who became famous in part because of his life story said Wednesday that the presidential race isn’t about biographies or personalities.
“I don’t know what John McCain is thinking,” Sen. Barack Obama told a crowd at an eastern Ohio college, [...]
September 1, 2008
Obama and Biden: Two sides of the coin
TOLEDO, Ohio–Political observers said adding Joe Biden to the Democratic ticket for president would do a lot of things for Barack Obama: provide him with a better connection to middle-class voters, shore up his foreign policy profile, perhaps give him a shot at winning a battleground state.
Add something else: Biden has taken the oh-so-serious, scripted [...]
August 31, 2008
ON THE BUS: An Obama campaign digest
Writ Large has gone on the road. For the next week, we’ll be with the Barack Obama campaign as it buses through the battleground states.
SOMEWHERE IN WESTERN OHIO–Campaigns are long marches. Extended, heavily choreographed, highly accessorized, marches.
They aren’t unlike Hollywood movies or Broadway plays. What the viewer sees on the screen is the result of [...]
August 21, 2008
DOUBLETAKE: Is Mac thumpin’ PC?
Welcome to Doubletake, your morning mash-up with Tribune correspondents Jim Tankersley and Jim Oliphant. Now in new Extreme Arctic Blast flavor.
Jim Oliphant: So, get your text message yet?
Jim Tankersley: No. And my new rule is, no text, no veepstakes in the chat. This is non-negotiable.
Oliphant: I haven’t gotten mine yet either. But this I am pret-ty sure this art [...]
