I read about 20 news blogs, most of them are title "the blank" as in The Page, The Caucus, The Swamp, The Fix, The Trail, and the Daily Dish. So today I bring you The List. Actually, it's a bunch of lists. Nothing too deep here today, just a few lists to end a pretty difficult week.
First Up.
Best Obama and McCain Surrogates
- Claire McCaskill. Right on message every single time. Tough and factual.
- Hillary Clinton. She has been a good soldier since losing. I imagine we will see a lot of her in October.
- Joe Lieberan. For those that don't know Joe Lieberman, it is very effective for McCain to trot out a former Dem as a leading pit bull. For those that do know him, they realize that he is just a jerk.
- John Kerry. He honed his skills as a campaigner, now that his primary is over he will be out there much more.
- Mitt Romney. Crisp and on message despite being an insufferable bore and a slithery human.
- Carly Fiorina. She said what? Does she know that she got fired from HP because SHE could not run HP?
- Bill Richardson. Likable guy but maybe the least knowledgeable guy on the planet.
- Rudy Giuliani. Not remotely a likable guy.
- Bill Clinton. Stay on message?
- Lindsey Graham. Maybe it's the accent.
- Slate Political Podcast. Great cast, great banter
- It's All Politics. When they aren't trying to overdo it with the one liners, these guys are pretty good.
- Washington Week. Gwen Ifill has good guests and moderates an insightful conversation
- CNN Politics Daily. 15 minutes of political highlights for the day
- Meet the Press. Prefer listening than watching on TV. Unfortunately not as good as it was a few months ago. :(
- The Page.
- Ben Smith
- The Daily Dish
- The Daily Kos
- Taegon Goddard's Political Wire
- John Dickerson - Slate
- Wolf Blitzer- CNN
- Chuck Todd- NBC
- Joe Klein
- George Stephanopolis
Best TV Political Analysts
- David Gergan
- John King
- John Cafferty
- Donna Brazille
- Sean Hannity. inusufferable
- Lou Dobbs. See above.
- Larry King. Great guests, terrible questions
- Greta Van Sustrin. What happened since she left CNN?
- Chris Wallace. No personality
1 comment:
I think Phil Gramm should be on the bad surrogate list somewhere.
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