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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:54:47 +0000

[...] He’ll be maintaining as high a profile as he can while quietly conferring with the likes of David Boren, Sam Nunn and Michael Bloomberg on his prospects as a “unity” candidate running to the right— redefined as the [...]

By: dick powell

dick powell — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:33:37 +0000

[...] Electoral extortion is such a fine idea: discuss [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:34:52 +0000

Barack and Mikey actually met at a diner recently … the News had a nice human interest story on the waitress, who was treated well, apparently. They chewed the fat for some time, but the article didn’t really go into specifics.

The unity people should love Obama he wants to transcend partisanship (Juan Gonzales was hesistant to sign on to that in his column today). OTOH, Bloomberg transcended partisanship the last few years by supporting the Republican Party and the War in Iraq.

By: Michael Wright

Michael Wright — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:19:33 +0000

On December 31, The Norman Transcript, whose editor is very friendly to David Boren, had a page-one article with the headline announcing that “analysts” were speculating on a Bloomberg-Boren ticket. The “analyst” quoted was an OU political “science” professor — an obvious lackey of Boren who was beating the drums for this idea. Boren is a former U.S. Senator who abrubtly resigned from that office in 1994, for reasons he never disclosed to the public. Evidence strongly indicates that he was about to be investigated and was forced out. This pathetic man has been having Potomac fantasies ever since. His recent “bipartisan forum” was just a scheme to put the media spotlight on himself as a partner to Bloomberg. He obviously spent much of his time, and OU staff members’ time, organizing this extravaganza for his personal benefit. This was abuse of public funds.

By: Weldon Berger

Weldon Berger — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:40:38 +0000

Obama v Huckabee was the example mentioned in the NYTimes story pre-wankfest, but the key thing was that they said explicitly that the failure to announce a unity government would result in a third-party challenge no matter the nominee.

No, the summit didn’t go well and Boren and Nunn are backtracking somewhat, saying that the urgency is less now that Clinton and Obama are talking bipartisanship. Since both candidates were making those noises before the meeting, I take this to be a face-saving exercise, and I expect Nunn and Boren will recover from their humiliation in short order and get back in the game. They pretty much have to if Bloomberg runs, because there’s no other way to preserve their imaginary relevance.