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Political notes from Free Press staff writers Terri Hallenbeck, Sam Hemingway and Nancy Remsen

2.04.2008

Savage takes a holiday

Andrew Savage, the young Calais native/Middlebury grad who helped Peter Welch win a seat in Washington and then followed him there, is taking a vacation in Utah.

Those of you who know Andrew might guess that he is skiing out there, but no, he's taking a busman's holiday.

Saavage is working for a few days as a spokesman for Barack Obama's campaign in Utah. He said this was something he wanted to do, not that Welch asked him to do. Too busy with the oolitics to even think about skiing.

Monday was a big day for the Obama Utah campaign - the candidate's wfe, Michelle, was visiting Salt Lake City, pinch-hitting for her husband (see photo above right). Savage said 1,000 people showed.

Utah is a Super Tuesday state, among a lump of 22 states holding primaries tomorrow. The Assocated Press assesses the state this way:

UTAH (Dems: 23; GOP: 36 WTA) Heavy Mormon population makes it
Romney’s. Democratic tossup.

From the Salt Lake Tribune the other day:

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama has canceled his visit to Utah in advance of
the state's presidential primary on Tuesday out of respect for the funeral
services of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley.

The Illinois Democrat had been scheduled to visit Saturday, the same day as
Hinckley's funeral. Instead, the senator plans to send his wife, Michelle, to
stump for him on Monday, the day before Utah's primary. Because of previously
scheduled events, Barack Obama won't be able to make the trek to the state at
another time.

"Last night I spoke with President Thomas Monson and expressed my deepest
sympathies to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the passing of
President Gordon B. Hinckley," Sen. Obama said in a statement.

Monson is Hinckley's likely successor.

Obama spokesman Andrew Savage said his boss regretted he
couldn't make it to the state again.

"Sen. Obama was looking forward to returning to Utah since his August visit
and for the opportunity to meet and talk to the people of Utah again," Savage said. Still, the campaign is "taking Utah's primary very
seriously and plans to be very competitive on Tuesday."

Utah, of course, is "the reddest of red states," Savage said Monday afternoon by phone, but the Democratic primary is open to any Democrats or unaffaliated voters and Obama is attracting interest from some of those unaffiliateds. You'd expect the campaign's spokesman to say that.

- Terri Hallenbeck

posted by vt.Buzz | 5:22 PM |

Comments:

Talk about supporting morons - first the ambulance-chasing gazillionaire leftie Welch, and now the most far-left Senator in the U.S.! What has Vermont come to! (Why not stop in Berkeley why you're out west to congratulate the city council for dissing our military)

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 6:22 AM, February 05, 2008

bubba said...

"Talk about supporting morons - first the ambulance-chasing gazillionaire leftie Welch, and now the most far-left Senator in the U.S.! What has Vermont come to! (Why not stop in Berkeley why you're out west to congratulate the city council for dissing our military)"

Bubbles, once again, not only do ya have bupkis, you and your posts are invariably wholly without merit, factually, legally and historically.

Go try to buy yourself a clue and a case.

Dismissed.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 8:20 AM, February 05, 2008

Cue the JW and Bubba show. I'm out.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 9:12 AM, February 05, 2008

Me too.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 9:16 AM, February 05, 2008

Seriously, folks - not trying to spoil the love affair with Barack Hussein, BUT.......Can anyone think of anything he's EVER accomplished in his legislative career? I know, HOPE, HOPE, HOPE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE.....is that all from this empty suit, another pretty face not named Hillary? Just wondering.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 1:43 PM, February 05, 2008

Leaving this this blog to Bubba and JW. They've ruined it.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 1:57 PM, February 05, 2008

Anonymous said...

"Leaving this this blog to Bubba and JW. They've ruined it."

Gee, and I was just tellin' the wife how much Saint Vermont and what's your name again, little fella?, have classed up the joint, too.

Bummer.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 6:27 PM, February 05, 2008

"Well, he didn't let some illegitimate-trash idiot prince invade the wrong frickin' Country based on cooked intel, for openers, little fella."

That's because he wasn't in Congress at the time, retard.

Unlike Hillary and Edwards, who were in the Senate, and who went along with the folly because it was popular.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 6:34 PM, February 05, 2008

"Gee, and I was just tellin' the wife how much Saint Vermont and what's your name again, little fella?, have classed up the joint, too."

Really? I don't recall there being a single swear word on this blog before you arrived, Mr. Classy.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 6:36 PM, February 05, 2008

"On the other hand, it looks like you've got yourself a nominee that the party elites and the flush friends hate with a passion who wants to keep us in a war we never should have been in in the first place that 70 percent of the people want us out of ASAP for another 100 years."

Wrong again, simpleton. I'll be voting for the Democratic candidate, whoever it may be.

"Nice try, nitwit. Ya got a short, selective memory, little fella. How long do ya think it's gonna take me to find some nameless-nitwit natterings to the contrary?"

Really? Go find 'em. If you find any, we'll compare numbers.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 6:00 AM, February 06, 2008

jw, why all of this KKK stuff? Even an idiot like you should know that big shot dimocrat Robert Byrd is the only active member of Congress that was a KKK leader. Oh yes, that selective memory problem again, too many years into the Wild Irish Rose.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 7:51 AM, February 06, 2008

Oh yes, and by the way, I'm still waiting for someone to mention any of Barack Hussein's "accomplishments". Fill in the below:

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

Do not include anything having to do with illegal drugs, Chicago slumloards, or Muslim education.

Thank you in advance.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 11:41 AM, February 06, 2008

"jw, why all of this KKK stuff? Even an idiot like you should know that big shot dimocrat Robert Byrd is the only active member of Congress that was a KKK leader. Oh yes, that selective memory problem again, too many years into the Wild Irish Rose."

Nice try, spinderella. Ya got bupkis. Byrd's record shows he cleaned up his act. Strom ditched the sheet and kept the act.

No racists, no reagan.

No bigots, no bush.

Always a pleasure.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 3:41 PM, February 06, 2008

This comment has been removed by the author.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 5:54 PM, February 06, 2008

bubba has left a new comment on the post "Savage takes a holiday":

"Oh yes, and by the way, I'm still waiting for someone to mention any of Barack Hussein's "accomplishments". Fill in the below:

(1)What Muslim Education did Barack Obama have?

(2)When did it become illegal to have a Muslim Education?

(3) Ya got anything besides unsubstantiated timothy mcveigh wing of the gop wing-nut nonsense, spinderella?

(4) That's what I thought.

(5) Real Vermonters don't refuse to vote for someone because of their middle name. We leave that to ignorant, ill-informed, bigoted-trash, red-state rubbish.

(6)Ya got bupkis, bubble boy. Take your ignorant red-state rubbish and tell you're story walkin', schmuck.

(7) Dismissed.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 5:58 PM, February 06, 2008

bubba said...

"jw, why all of this KKK stuff?"

Because it applies, spinderella. Because it applies.

Dismissed.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 6:01 PM, February 06, 2008

jw - "Byrd's record shows he cleaned up his act".

Dimocrat Sen Robert Byrd in a 3/4/2001 interview with Tony Snow: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word."

jw - just WHEN did he "clean up"?

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 6:22 PM, February 06, 2008

JWCoop10 has left a new comment on the post "Savage takes a holiday":

"jw, why all of this KKK stuff? Even an idiot like you should know that big shot dimocrat Robert Byrd is the only active member of Congress that was a KKK leader. Oh yes, that selective memory problem again, too many years into the Wild Irish Rose."

Nice try, spinderella. Ya got bupkis. Byrd's record shows he cleaned up his act. Strom ditched the sheet and kept the act.

No racists, no reagan.

No bigots, no bush.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 9:47 PM, February 06, 2008

The night drags on, the Richard's slowly empties, the voices are starting to speak to me again, is it time for Maher yet, did he get my letter, and the blogs start repeating themselves.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 5:50 AM, February 07, 2008

Bubba, you're in bad shape.

# Posted by:

Anonymous | 10:18 AM, February 07, 2008

Nah, he's just got bupkis.

# Posted by:

JWCoop10 | 11:35 AM, February 07, 2008