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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (20016)	1/4/2008 10:16:11 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224666

Obama's victory speech was impressive with it's "one people" theme; however, when he said "I'll bring the troops home from Iraq," he gave Hillary necessary ammunition. Why pull the winning team off the field when the opposition is still a threat?..it doesn't make sense.

To: longnshort who wrote (20016)	1/4/2008 12:51:08 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224666

Ed Rollins admits plan to go negative in SC..so much for Huckabee's imagined high road. >Huckabee Chairman Ed Rollins on the Wisdom of the Washington Press Corps By Terry Trippany \| January 4, 2008 Chris Wallace and Mike Huckabee campaign chairman Ed Rollins got into it a bit during an interview on Fox News after the announcement that Huckabee took Iowa. During the exchange Wallace had asked Rollins about a blog article that appeared on Townhall.com where Rollins was allegedly overheard bad mouthing Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani. The blog article must have hit a sore spot as Rollins became defensive in explaining his comments that appeared in the blog entry while confirming that he did indeed say some of the things that were attributed to him. Wallace took the opportunity to follow up on that answer in an exchange where Rollins became agitated, calling Wallace and the rest of the Washington press corps "wise men", with a final swipe that "all the wisdom doesn't live in the press corps." Chris Wallace became a bit defensive himself in response. Brit Hume and crew at Fox News Studios had a good time with it, laughing that "It's always good to get an interview with a joyful victor." The full transcript was a bit more colorful with Rollins having a couple of tense exchanges with Wallace while discussing the Townhall.com report. Wallace: Ed, I'm not sure if you're aware of this but you are the subject of a blog on Townhall.com tonight. Someone says they overheard you eating at a restaurant called Winstons. Let me ask you first of all, did you eat at a restaurant called Winstons? Rollins: I did and the blonde that they are referring to is my wife. We snuck off to have a little lunch today and obviously when you have thousands of thousands of reporters covering it, ah, there was no one else in the restaurant but one woman at another table and obviously she was the blogger. She certainly sat down and took whatever we were saying. It was a private conversation between my wife and I. Wallace: Well let me ask you, since she was right so far let me ask you about another couple of things that you allegedly said. Rollins: She was right. I had carrot cake and a tuna melt sandwich. Wallace: Ed it says that you talked about going negative in South Carolina and said "put some good in there if you have to, with the bad. Do what you gotta do." Did you say that? Rollins: What I, listen it was a private conversation between my wife and I. I talked in terms of South Carolina as a different place. Once again, it was not for public consumption and the reality is Mike Huckabee makes the decisions in this campaign, I don't. It is a more negative statement, we're used to those kinds of things. I was talking to her about where this thing goes. She's a political novice and this is a whole new game to her and I don't think that she expected to have our lunch, private lunch, with no one else in a private restaurant sitting there and taking notes at an adjacent table. Terry Trippany is the editor and publisher of Webloggin<