thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 8/20/2008
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Senator Barack Obama went shopping for various eats at a farmer's market in Greensboro, N.C., this morning, but declined to say if he was still shopping for a running mate.
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Obama: “No Hints”
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Land of Lincolner buys biscuits, zucchini bread, pound cake, bread, tomatoes and peaches Wednesday, but won’t answer running mate questions.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"No hints. No hints." -- Sen. Barack Obama, quoted by the New York Times, to a group of reporters asking about his search for a running mate.
Is This What Katharine Seelye Calls Journalism?
Ankle Biting Pundits —
What was the New York Times’ big scoop about Obama on the trail yesterday?
He shopped for snacks.
I’m not kidding.
Not one journalist traveling with Obama yesterday (Not one!?) thought to ask about the Ayers/Annenberg cover-up or his Born Alive lies.
All the news that’s fit to print.
Presidential snacks: Obama’s shopping spree
neo-neocon —
Wow. I didn’t know you could buy babies at the Farmer’s Market (see paragraph two).
Obama’s purchase of biscuits, zucchini bread, pound cake, bread, tomatoes and peaches makes him a health-food nut compared to earlier Presidents.
We all are familiar with chow hound Bill Clinton. But do you recall the partician Bush Senior’s difficult-to-believe (and to stomach) predilection for pork rinds? Reagan liked jelly beans, and Nixon’s comfort food was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup. Yuk.
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