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Posted: 10:04 p.m. Sunday, April 6, 2008
By Jamie Dupree
It was a weekend filled with lots of little things that will have insane campaign insiders talking, while most voters in America will be more worried about who is going to get booted off of American Idol this week instead.
First, hats off to the Clintons on Friday, as they gave reporters a classic late Friday "document dump" of the couple's tax returns.
Friday night is the preferred graveyard for stories like this. They get lower ratings on the evening news that night. Saturday newspapers are not as widely read either.
And when you get down to it, there wasn't that much "news" in those tax returns, other than the headline, which was that the Clintons have gotten rather rich in the last eight years. Like millions and millions type of rich.
But once again, there was much more 'hype' than there was substance. It's a lot easier to demand that your opponent release their tax returns, because every day that they don't, you can hint that they must be hiding something.
No one ever learns that you should just say YES, I will release those returns. Just let me find them, make sure nothing too personal gets released and go from there. Boom, thank you, the story is over.
Instead, Hillary hemmed and hawed a bit and made it look like there might be something there that could be trouble. The tax return issue is almost always a phony one for both parties.
In other news, how many of you know who Ed Schluz is? Yes, he is most likely Neal Boortz' favorite liberal talk radio host, but he didn't make news that way.
Instead, Schulz became the Democratic version of Cincinnati talker Ed Cunningham when Schulz opened a Barack Obama event by calling John McCain a "warmonger."
Cunningham had opened an Ohio event for McCain back in February by repeatedly using Obama's middle name of "Hussein" and calling Obama a "hack."
Now both sides are even on that one. Wonder where the next Surrogate Faux Pas will come from?
As for McCain, he has seemingly changed his mind on Secret Service protection, after the Service Director told Congress in public session last week that they weren't protecting the soon-to-be GOP nominee.
McCain told Fox News Sunday that they will be meeting to arrange security for the future. It's something that McCain needs to do.
I was very surprised that when he was back at the Capitol a few weeks ago for a day of votes, he had no security with him at all. I mean, none. He walked the halls by himself on the way back and forth for votes.
Now let's move on to important things, like Memphis or Kansas?
I have a 50/50 shot at being right, so I'll say Memphis, with the MVP going to the 6'6' guard that has the hyphenated last name.
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