A fire on Sunday blazed through the North Carolina mill where former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) and his father once worked, reports WTVD in Raleigh.
Firefighters from 20 departments responded to the fire at the abandoned Milliken Mill in Robbins. No one was injured. Investigators have yet to announce the cause of the blaze.
Edwards announced his first presidential bid in 2003 from mill. In both of his presidential campaigns, he often talked about growing up as in modest surroundings as the son of a mill worker.
Two weeks ago, he admitted having an extramarital affair and ruled out speaking at the Democratic convention, despite still holding delegates that he won in the Iowa caucuses and early presidential primaries.
Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, says that supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) are having are hard time getting over the New York senator's loss to Barack Obama in the Democratic primary.
"There is a sense of entitlement that almost seems to be inbred," Panetta, who has been tasked by the Obama campain with healing wounds between the two camps, told the British paper The Times. "They are convinced Hillary is the one who should be assuming the mantle and it's tough to crack that."
"It's not something that I would have recommended, but [the Obama campaign is] trying to bend over backwards as far as they can to accommodate her," the longtime Clinton aide say. "I'm a little disturbed that this keeps playing out."
John McCain rekindled the troop surge debate today in an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) National Convention in Orlando, Fla., after the campaign had largely shifted to other issues--such as Russia's invasion of Georgia--in recent weeks.
McCain reiterated his accusation that political selfishness drove Barack Obama to oppose the troop surge in early 2007.
"It was a moment when political self-interest and the national interest parted ways," McCain said. "For my part...I would rather lose an election than lose a war."
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John McCain and Barack Obama are tied in Ohio, according to a Public Policy Polling survey.
Both men receive 45 percent of the support of voters, 10 percent of whom remain undecided. The Democrat had led in PPP Ohio polls in June and July.
While McCain gets the backing of nearly nine in 10 Republican voters, Obama gets the support of only three quarters of Democrats. Obama leads among independents.
Many of the Democrats who aren't supporting Obama "are disproportionately white, female, and middle aged, an indication that it could be former supporters of Hillary Clinton who are holding out," according to the pollster's analysis.
"Ohio is one state, along with Pennsylvania and Michigan, where Barack Obama would probably be well served by some joint appearances with the Clintons," wrote Dean Debnam, PPP's president. "Democrats have a party ID advantage in Ohio but that won
Despite pastor Rick Warren swearing that John McCain was in a "cone of silence" during Barack Obama's hour-long portion of Saturday's faith forum at the Saddleback Church in California, McCain's staff confirms that the Arizona senator was in fact in his motorcade on the way to the forum during Obama's portion.
Why does this matter? Because McCain and Obama were asked identical questions under the pretense that whoever went second would not hear the answer of the candidate who went first.
So does that mean McCain cheated? Spokesman Nicole Wallace tells the New York Times no.
"The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," Wallace told the paper.
But McCain played along with the cone shtick during the forum.
The first question Warren asked McCain: "Was the cone of silence comfortable that you were in just now?"
"I was trying to hear through the wall," McCain joked.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark's spokesman has said that the Democrat has yet to be invited to his party's convention next week, according to Steve Clemons at The Washington Note.
If the former NATO commander doesn't attend, his absence would come despite the theme of Wednesday's session, "Securing America's Future," which is echoes the name of his political action committee, Securing America.
The spokesman said that Clark would play any constructive role in the convention if he was asked.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) steered off message during his "Meet the Press" appearance on Sunday by trampling a talking point that has been cited by House Republicans.
Jindal, a former House member who is a top contender to be Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) running mate, criticized Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for his "all of the above" approach to energy.
"All of the above" is the House Republican slogan for addressing high gas prices, encompassing more energy production, encouraging efficiency, and increasing supply.
During his appearance on Sunday, Jindal said that McCain "has a long history of bucking his own party, his own president, whether it was fighting against earmarks, wasteful spending, and he's got a long tradition of standing on principle for what he believes is right. Unlike Sen. Obama, he's for all of the above when it comes to our energy solutions. You know, Sen. Obama's been out there saying he wants to increase taxes on coal, on natural gas. He said nuclear energy is not the right answer for America. He says that he doesn't want more domestic oil and gas production off our coast."
Barack Obama praised former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) during Saturday's Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, saying the Georgia Democrat will have a voice in an Obama Administration.
Obama said he would not limit his circle of advisers, but named Nunn, a frequently rumored vice presidential pick, as one voice he will listen to on foreign policy.
"There are people like Sam Nunn, a Democrat, or [Sen.] Dick Lugar (Ind.), a Republican who I
Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) was released from a halfway house Friday morning and is now a free man, according to a report by the Columbus Dispatch.
At 7:30 Friday morning Ney left the halfway house in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had been living since his release from a federal prison in Morgantown, W. Va. in February.
He served 17 of the 30 months he was sentenced to in January 2007 after pleading guilty in 2006 to corruption charges stemming from his relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The Hill reported in March that Ney was working at Talk Radio News Service (TRNS), located in Columbus, Ohio, thanks to his longtime friend Ellen Ratner.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingirch (R-Ga.) has put put a light hearted video announcing a YouTube contest for his group American Solutions.
The contest challenges supporters to make a video demonstrating the groups "drill here, drill now, pay nothing" slogan. The winner of the contest will get a year of free gas.
The video starts with Gingrich catching one of his interns watching YouTube at work and later shows the intern doing the same to the former House Speaker.
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