Today's TRMS
Osama bin Laden's driver has just been convicted of providing material support to terrorists following an illegal, secretive terrifying kangaroo court trial at Guantanamo. Joining Rachel tonight to talk about Hamdan's life, trial and conviction is the man who just wrote the definitive book on the subject, Jonathan Mahler. His new book is called: The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power.
Also, journalists only need the vaguest sign of friendship between one of the candidates and another politician to assume that a vice presidential choice is nigh. But, it does seem like Obama is spending an awful lot of time with Evan Bayh. So much so that we are nervous this is more than a coincidence. So we've asked John Nichols to join us today to talk about why Bayh would be a terrible, terrible running mate.
Bayh Campaigning
I was talking to a friend from NW Indiana who seems pretty tuned into Indiana politics and he told me that Bayh will not be on the ticket but he will play a major part in the campaign in Indiana, Kentucky, and Southern Ohio specifically. While the Obama camp is not expecting to win in Ky and probably not in Indiana either, they think that Bayh will help in those states and the idea is to have McCain use resources in those two states, rather than coast.
Nice to hear your guest give props to Birch Bayh. Bayh was also part of the big ERA push and a key pointman for Title IX legislation. I did volunteer work for his short-lived presidential campaign in '76. Too bad he wasn't able to do better in Iowa that year. I haven't heard much in the media about him lately - would make an interesting guest. Just wish that his son would be more like him.
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By JTGullsAugust 6, 2008 - 11:07pm