Hold Fast

Rockin’ cameo for Chris Dodd on Saturday Night Live. Would have loved to get some SNL time during the campaign…

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Via TRex, my guy Chris Dodd is speaking out with an eye towards resolving the Democratic nominating process.

Look, we’ve got five more months to go before the Democratic convention at the end of August and, candidly, we cannot go five more months with the kind of daily sniping that’s going on and have a candidate […]

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Senator Dodd has an op-ed in the Miami Herald today on US-Cuba policy. Of note, Dodd lays out a vision for steps the US government could take to hasten the democratization of Cuba.
We should:

Act decisively to end trade sanctions. This means repealing the ill-conceived Helms-Burton and Cuba Democracy Acts, as well as amending the Trade […]

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Harry Moroz has a post on the DMI Blog about the need for a national infrastructure bank as a means of building a lasting system for improving, maintaining, and creating our infrastructure:
The National Infrastructure Bank is a first step in creating a coherent vision of American infrastructure. First, the use of bonds – rather than […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MScBefDiDJg

Video via Scarce.
A bit over a month ago I wrote a post on the upsides of Dodd as a vice presidential pick for Barack Obama. I thought it’d be worth going through the upside of that again today.
Dodd’s experience would be a tremendous asset for any of our nominees. From two and a half decades […]

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Yes, please:
We know it’s time to time to restore our Constitution and the rule of law. This is an issue that was at the heart of Senator Dodd’s candidacy, and I share his passion for restoring the balance between the security we demand and the civil liberties that we cherish.
The American people must be able […]

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And he’ll be hitting the campaign trail with Obama.
After a prolonged silence through most of the primary season, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is rejoining the presidential race on somebody else’s team — Sen. Barack Obama’s.
The Connecticut senator, whose own presidential campaign failed to draw enough attention to propel him […]

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Newsday has an interview with Senator Chris Dodd on his opinions of presidential politics. On the Democrats:
Democratic voters are sending a clear message by giving Barack Obama 11 consecutive primary victories over rival Hillary Clinton, Sen. Christopher Dodd said Monday.
“It’s obviously getting to a point where people are speaking pretty loudly,” Dodd told reporters. “Eleven […]

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Joshua Levy of techPresident brings me back…
Remember the Email Wars of 2007, when Chris Dodd would send an email designed to look like it was quickly tapped out on a BlackBerry, and Barack Obama would do the same (plagiarist!) two days later? Then Bill Richardson would forward a message from his staffer as if he […]

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I was on a blogger and reporter conference call with Senator Chris Dodd this afternoon. David Isenberg, McJoan at Daily Kos and Jason Rosenbaum of The Seminal have already posted on it.
Dodd announced that because the will of the Senate is so clearly in favor of retroactive immunity and the House legislation is so much […]

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