Thanks for answering my question about Howard Dean. Thanks also for keeping us informed on what’s going on with Gov. Bill Richardson and the grand jury. I always thought he was way too puffed up about his successes and gave the Clintons no credit at all for giving him those jobs that he could brag about.

A lot of this is about money and Obama is not giving Big Media a chance to make money so they are telling him who is boss.

I can tell you for a fact there is ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD in working with quality people. There is focus, collaboration and tangible results. Without that the simplest problems become complex and the mission gets lost. Hillarys team is world class–like her. Success will follow. Her speech today was motivational–just what they needed to hear because I sense a real motivational problem in Foggy Bottom under Condeleesa Rice.

Michael Oreskes, Editor of IHT, to Leave Times Company for A.P.
by John Koblin | 6:27 AM May 15, 2008 | Tags: MediaAssociated PressBill KellerHowell RainesInternational Herald TribuneMichael OreskesNew York Times Company

AFP/Getty ImagesThe Media Mob has learned that longtime New York Times editor Mike Oreskes is leaving the company for the Associated Press.

Mr. Oreskes, who is currently the editor of the Times-owned International Herald Tribune, has been working in one capacity or another under the Times umbrella for the past 27 years. Before he took his position as executive editor of IHT in 2005, he was the deputy managing editor of The Times for Bill Keller, and an assistant managing editor under Howell Raines before that.

At the AP, he’ll become the managing editor of the wire service’s U.S. News department, a newly created department there.

Update! AP has confirmed our report with a press release. Here it is:

AP names Michael Oreskes Managing Editor for U.S. NewsThe Associated Press today named Michael Oreskes, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, to be AP Managing Editor for U.S. News.

In the newly expanded position, Oreskes will oversee all U.S. news from The Associated Press, from state bureaus to national political coverage, for both U.S. and world audiences.

“We’re delighted to have an editor with Michael’s breadth take up this important new position in the AP,’’ said Kathleen Carroll, executive editor. “His experience at every level of coverage, in every format for audiences in the United States and across the globe, makes him uniquely suited for this position.”

Oreskes, 53, has served as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune since 2005. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of The New York Times, supervising television and Internet content. During this period, he won three Emmy awards and a DuPont award for documentary television.

The appointment was announced Thursday by Mike Silverman, senior managing editor, to whom Oreskes will report. He joins AP in July and will be based at AP headquarters in New York.

“With his background as metro editor and statehouse bureau chief, he will be a strong advocate for the strong state reports that make AP unique,” Silverman said. “And with his Washington experience added in, he can help our journalists connect the dots between the federal government and the states and citizens it serves.”

Oreskes will oversee the work of AP’s bureaus in the 50 states, which will be reporting up to him through four regional operations being created in 2008 and 2009. He’ll also supervise the work of the Washington bureau, the news service’s largest domestic bureau, and AP’s national feature, beat and investigative reporters.

Oreskes will be one of four managing editors, joining John Daniszewski, in charge of international coverage; Kristin Gazlay, in charge of business news and training, and Lou Ferrara, in charge of sports, entertainment and a merged multimedia and graphics department.

From 1997 to 2001, Oreskes was Washington bureau chief for the Times, and previously served as metropolitan editor and city editor. He started with the Times in 1981, as a metropolitan correspondent. Before that Oreskes worked for the Daily News in New York City. He is a graduate of City College of New York.

About The AP

The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world’s population sees news from AP

This guy is another Judas for turning on Hillary on Michigan when he was a Clinton member. I can only assume he was one of those who was bribed or coerced.

Also he is the one who tried to make a joke that the monster hurricane which was expected to hit New Orleans (MSY) during the Republican Convention proved that God was on the Democats side.

Hacks like him are the ones who control the fate of our country? Amazing.

All kidding aside, this country will be in deep trouble if Pelosi rises to that level. She is a disaster where she is now.

If Biden were to fall off the barstool, clunk his head on the foot bar, roll over and kiss the blarney stone we must resist the tempation to give him a good christian burial and wake, tempting though it might be.

Instead, we must summon Anthony Perkins to the rescue, pump embalming fluid into his veins and prop him in a chair so people believe he is still alive. Like Mrs. Bates in the Alfred Hitcock thrilller Psycho. And people would believe it as long as we put some of his better gaffs on a tape recorder.

And while this may seem harsh, cruel and a waste of good liquor I can tell you for a fact that it is be better that turning the vp position over to a real alcoholic who is next in the line of succession. Modesty prevents me from mentioning her name. But if you are looking for a clue, she was the one standing at the podium, calling herself co-chairman, shaking like a leaf and proving Lord Acton was right that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Amen on that one. I am thrilled sweet caroline is OUT!

“As for what the real Muslims think about Obama, back in 2007 when he was talking about invading Pakistan, I looked at some of their forums. They were making fun of him. They were calling him an ‘ex-Muslim atheist’. It wasn’t threatening, they were just not taking him seriously.”

Still will never forget the controversy over the muslim woman in traditional attire who was not allowed to stand behind the messiah at a rally. Campaign crafting that image after the Dear Reverend Wright exited the scene and the muslim rumors had eliminated by the campaign. The story of the woman being told she could not stand behind him in full view of the camera was barely covered by his cult following media.

The vote was 19-8

From demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/04/
rules-and-bylaws-committee-membership.html

Here is the list:

Co-Chairs – no endorsement
Alexis Herman (co-chair, Washington , D.C. )
James Roosevelt, Jr. (co-chair, Massachusetts )

Members – Clinton supporters (13)
Hartina Flournay (DC)
Donald Fowler (SC)
Harold Ickes, Jr. (DC)
Jaime Gonzalez, Jr. (TX)
Alice Huffman (CA)
Ben Johnson (DC)
Elaine Kamarck (MA)
Eric Kleinfeld (DC)
Mona Pasquil (CA)
Mame Reiley (VA)
Garry Shay (CA)
Elizabeth Smith (DC)
Michael Steed (MD)

Members – Obama supporters (8)
Martha Fuller Clark (NH)
Carol Khare Fowler (SC)
Janice Griffin (MD)
Thomas Hynes (IL)
Allan Katz (FL)
Sharon Stroschein (SD)
Sarah Swisher (IA)
Everett Ward (NC)

Members – no known endorsement (7)
Donna Brazille (DC)
Mark Brewer (MI)
Ralph Dawson (NY)
Yvonne Gates ( NV)
Alice Germond (DC) – DNC Secretary
David McDonald (WA)
Jerome Wiley Segovia (VA)

The following has interesting real time blogging where you can pick up where the members were toward the end-
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/the-dnc-deliberates/

I’ll try to find the actual vote poll later.

I think many here will know at least one turncoat. I know Don Fowler voted most foul on the MI give-away.