regime change, but maybe it is about momentum change. so the goals were not clear all the way even though they were saying, you know, this is just enormous humanitarian atrocity. so, yeah. it was tough for me to understand that too, that if there was, you know, these atrocities taking place and we re not going to try to actually remove assad from power, we may be trying to get to the bargaining table, just deliver some kind of message, but congressman jeffries, i asked congressman grayson about this earlier, as i look at that and think about that now, we had jim moran yesterday making the point, what was that really all about. he s saying that was about delivering the message to assad, to russia, that the united states was about to act militarily. that threat had to be there in some real way, the united states was going to act militarily and without that threat, all of the diplomatic progress over the last few days wouldn t work. i asked congressman grayson about this, i m curious fr
this is from carl paladino, the republican candidate for governor of new york in the last race. it was sent out to more than 200,000 people. it was the key here, garbage scented mailers, designed to smell like trash. and, by the way, it still smells like trash because he wanted voters to know on a visceral level that new york state capital stinks. but three years later, they still haven t managed to get the stench out of it. even when they don t give off noxious fumes, campaign mailers serve as great records of political history. before he was a four-time president, franklin d. roosevelt was a vice presidential running mate to ohio governor james cox in 1920, documented by this amazing postcard. seven decades late, the republican party in massachusetts tried to turn voters against bill clinton by tying him to former president jimmy carter. remember the last time we elected a southern governor president of the united states, and the font helps remind us the year was 1992. it is the mess
from the clinton/gore campaign, vote hope, tells us who actually won that election. bill de blasio s decision to do away with campaign mail confirms something i always suspected, most people hate the sftuff or are indifferent to it. i bet future campaigns will learn from this example. if political mail goes away entirely, candidates will save money. voters will spend less time sorting through junk mail. a few more trees will get to live too. doing away with campaign mail and there will be a price for political junkies like me. we, at least, will be wistful about what we have lost. next iowa caucus is years away, which means the presidential campaign is already in full force. that s next. nom, nom, nom.
would be a marketing exercise where he could hold book signings, could sell videos under the and get a seat at the debate and it caught fire for some reason, but he was out there selling his book. there are certain candidates that run, you know, simply because they want to raise their profile. simply because they re thinking about having a television career or selling books, that is the nature of the process because it tends to be especially, you know, recently tends to be more open. and they re reluctant to say no to certain candidates even if they re not polling anywhere. and it is actually for the republican primary it was devastating. and it really hurt them in terms of how they presented the message and the candidates to the american people. i think this whole idea about a book i think it is interesting and you re right it has become the kind of this check the box thing that candidates do in order for them to run. i think it is such a passe thing