December 29, 2007
Wake-Up Call! and Last Call! Bring You...
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS:
"He found the house, ate all the cookies, and he drank the milk, and he took the carrots for the reindeer" -- Chris Dodd, confirming that Santa found his family in IA (CBS News).
Some lady sewed a Mitt Romney Christmas stocking for her brother using an Ames Straw Poll shirt ("Five Brothers").
CAUCUS! THE DRAMA!
Des Moines dental assistant/"very attractive young woman" Diane Herndon said she was on a "runner's high" when, upon jogging past Mitt Romney, she started "screaming" ("Washington Wire").
Martha Wolf (D), who owns Ivy Bake Shoppe and Cafe in West Burlington, IA, planned on "baking 100 blackberry scones and 50 raspberry and apricot turnovers" for McCain's 12/28 visit. She was also planning to "bake some sugar cookies," but she wasn't sure whether to make "elephant-shaped or donkey-shaped" (Des Moines Register).
A "small group of Guardian Angels, wearing their distinctive red berets," showed up at a forum in Fort Dodge for Giuliani ("The Caucus")
At its first preview on 12/27, "Caucus! The Musical" "drew raves from an almost full house" in Des Moines. The play "features Nora Halliday, a black woman, and Benjamin Goldman, a gay Jew, duking it out on the left, and Rev. Stanley Jensen, a Christian conservative, and Sen. Harrison Tate, a moderate" GOPer, fighting on the right ("The Trail"). Spoiler Alert: Ultimately, the “fringe candidate with a simple message wins over” the undecided caucus-goers/actors (Caucus Call! sources).
BEAU BIDEN WATCH:
Obama's two sisters, Auma Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, will swing through Obama's Cedar Falls and Waterloo offices today "to visit with and fire up volunteers and supporters" (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier).
Ann Romney, speaking at an ice cream parlor in Le Mars, IA, on 12/28, said that Romney "makes extraordinary mashed potatoes." Later, in Sioux City, she said that "he taught her how to change their son's diapers" (Des Moines Register).
Elizabeth and Cate Edwards held a "coffee discussions" today with undecided caucus-goers at “Small Planet Restaurant” (release).
Beau Biden will "fan out" across IA for meet-and-greets this week (release).
OHHHHH, BEHIND THE SCENES:
"The snow covered campaign office on Grand Avenue in Des Moines begins to buzz somewhere around seven in the morning. A seemingly endless supply of doughnuts are brought in by staff and volunteers while the aroma of freshly brewed coffee swirls through the winding corridors of the headquarters" -- Dodd internet strategist Tim Tagaris, revealing the inner workings of the Dodd camp in a fundraising email appeal (Caucus Call! email).
The Clinton and Edwards camps "work out of a single building that has been divided into two separate business spaces" in Warren Co., IA. (Des Moines Register).
A “WEST WING” DIVIDED:
Actor/Activist Martin Sheen will campaign in IA for Bill Richardson tomorrow and Monday. Meanwhile, at several events this weekend Joe Biden was joined by Sheen’s fellow thespian, Richard Schiff, best known for his role as Toby Ziegler on “The West Wing” (Caucus Call! sources).
UPDATE: A "severe, contagious cold" has forced Martin Sheen to cancel his scheduled campaign stops with Richardson (release). Tear.
Nora McAlvanah, Editor
Maura O'Brien and Holly Noe, Associate Editors
Posted at 09:50 PM
Comments
Did anyone atend last night's opening of "Caucus! The Musical" at Iowa's State Historical Museum? Hysterical!!!! Surf to www.caucusthemusical.com for details
Eric Sickler | 12.30.07 11:44 AM
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As an agent of Change, Obama has aleady had a positive effect and change on the political landscape as evidenced by the "nicer tone" of the campaign commericals and political discourse prevelent today, which heretofore has been dirty and ugly. This is due to Obama's stance not too take the low road. To stay positive and above the frey, preferring to take the high road, to focuss on the issues and his message of change. -- And then they followed.
We all know that experience matters -- but what matters more is Judgment, Wisdom, Honesty and Integrity. We have to remember and weigh its seriousness, that in the most important policy decision of our times, the Iraq War, which has helped to escalate the present situation, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards got it Wrong. Barack Obama got it Right.
Obama a man of Judgment; a man of Positive Change.
BacaAngel | 12.31.07 07:51 AM
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