O'Hanlon Primary Update

Here's an interesting nugget:

None of the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination is likely to embrace that, said [Michael] O'Hanlon, who suspended his ties to the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) after he wrote that Bush's troop buildup was yielding positive results.

Since O'Hanlon was still being quoted in the media as a Clinton supporter a few weeks ago, I have to imagine the campaign (finally) got sick of him and got him to buzz off. But of course things can change when one shifts from "primary mode" to "general election mode" and I'm not sure what "suspended his ties" is really supposed to mean. What's more, O'Hanlon's always got Opportunity '08 to play around with.

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Tangentially, check out this tidbit of today's news:

A conservative Democratic member of Congress from Arkansas says that had Bill Clinton spoken out forcefully against the Iraq War in 2003, putting a voice to a position the former president claims he held at the time, it could have switched this "Blue Dog's" vote on the House floor.

"It probably would have had an effect on me and the way I voted on the resolution had I known for sure he felt that way, and why he felt that way, which is a conversation we could have had but didn't," U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., told Iowa Independent and the Carroll Daily Times Herald this morning.

Posted by Petey | December 5, 2007 9:46 AM

Excellent tidbit, Petey. Watch for news that O'Hanlon and Berry have been excommunicated--the latter is particularly vulnerable due to the crack-and-hoes episode during his DC Mayor incarnation.

Posted by Robert Powell | December 6, 2007 3:17 AM