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John Edwards just hit the stage, introduced by his wife. Predictably, the place went wild, although Al Sharpton created the most frenzy to date. His drawl seems more pronounced than in recent speeches. He starts by echoing Mellencamp.
“I grew up in a small town in rural North Carolina. My father worked in a mill [...]

The Show goes on. Finally, a little popular culture. John Cougar Mellencamp
just finished singing "Small Town" and now Bill Richardson, America’s
most unlikely Latino, is speaking in Spanish. Being in the midst of all
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Back on Blogger’s Row there is an air of restrained exuberance due less, we suspect, to tonight’s speaking agenda than to the Big Blogger’s Bash later tonight at an exclusive Greek restaurant in Charlestown where we are invited to meet “the future majority leaders of Congress”. Stay tuned for a report.
Bad news on the key [...]

(This story was written last night but we couldn’t post it because of fading wi-fi and near terminal exhaustion)
You know you’ve reached the big time in American Journalism when
Jerry Springer comes to call. The talk-show-host turned politician
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