From: Steve Hildebrand, BarackObama.com
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:22 PM
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This morning someone forwarded me an email sent by the arm of the Republican Party that raises money for their Senate candidates.
The subject of the message was “Democrats Win Landslide Victory,” and the writer, Republican former Senator Bill Frist, admits: “I have [...]
Theodore Maiman, who built the first laser, dies at 79.
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There is so much life full of creativity perfectly roaming inside the former post office building in downtown Nashville as Frist Center for Visual Arts caters splendid visual arts from classical to contemporary Art Nouveau. Designed in Art Deco style, the ample space of Frist art museum caters splendid visual arts from classical to contemporary [...]
I forgot to write this yesterday. On Thursday 8 Feb, Isabel’s first tooth popped out! No wonder she was very restless these few days, and had some light fever! I first thought it was caused by her head knocked on the floor (Ian pushed her too much).
She is now trying to get used to the feeling of having new tooth. She keeps using her toungue to push and feel the tooth. Salivar keeps falling down, aiyaik, very dirty and ugly took. But then, that is part and parcel of growing up.
Her second front tooth is getting ready to pop, I think anytime from now.
11.29.06Outgoing Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), who has been preparing for a 2008 white house run for 12 years, has decided to pass on the race. This far into the campaign season, he had expected to have support, but it appears that his lack of charisma and loyal followers was hurting him a lot. On the 29th, he pulled the plug.
Bill Frist's life was blessed probably right up until the point that he became a potential Presidential candidate. An accomplished surgeon with an apparently genuine humanitarian soul, Frist found himself leading the majority in the Senate in just his second (and, he always promised, final) term. I imagine it must be difficult in those circumstances not to imagine that you could go on to be President. But there was always too much working against him, and his departure from the race makes little difference to the field of seriously viable candidates in 2008.
Frist was caught from both sides. His leadership in the Senate, and his ability to drive through the Republican Party's agenda, met with mixed success, and mixed reviews. Yet he was also tainted in the eyes of many voters by association with a party, an administration and an agenda that seem badly to have fallen out of favour. Many voters would have remembered (or been reminded of) his role in the Terri Schiavo affair, and would
Associated Press now has Bill Frist's statement:
"In the Bible, God tells us for everything there is a season, and for me, fornow, this season of being an elected official has come to a close. I do notintend to run for president in 2008."
Short and sweet. It is "his only planned comment on the decision," AP says.
Frist will not seek presidency in 2008 - Yahoo! News
Here is a statement from Bill Frist, recently posted on the VOLPAC website. It's not exactly the absolute, unequivocal withdrawal from the Presidential race that you might expect - indeed, it doesn't mention running for President at all. It simply says that he will "return to Tennessee" and may return to practising medicine. Perhaps there's more to come that will make things clearer.
Here's the statement in full:
I wanted you to hear from me directly, before you heard it on thenews.
Twelve years ago, I pledged to the people of Tennessee that I wouldserve two terms in the Senate - to serve as a true citizen legislator - andthen return home. I said I'd come to the Senate with 20 years experience inhealing, spend 12 years serving in Washington, then go right back to Tennesseeto live where I grew up. And I will do just that.
That decision to self-limit my term was grounded then, and rests now,on a firm belief that change in public service and politics is healthy. That itfundame
Associated Press says that a formal announcement from Bill Frist, saying that he won't be running for President, is expected "later in the day". As yet, there is nothing on Frist's VOLPAC political action committee website.
Frist will not seek presidency in 2008 - Yahoo! News
Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.
Sources close to outgoing Maj. Leader Bill Frist tell the Hotline that Frist has decided not to run for President.
He will make a formal announcement this afternoon, the sources said.
Frist made the decision in recent days after consulting family, friends and advisers.
This story is also being reported by other news sources.
I'd call this a case of addition by subtraction from the 2008 presidential field.
Associated Press, seen here on Yahoo! News, is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not run for President in 2008. AP quotes "Republican officials" as its source and, as yet, offers no further details. It is not clear if a formal announcement from Frist is expected.
More as it happens.
Frist will not run for president in '08 - Yahoo! News
After Massachusetts voters apparently rejected the idea of either John Kerry or Mitt Romney pursuing the presidency (see earlier post), the same round of Associated Press exit polling on Tuesday found Tennesseans underwhelmed by the prospect of a Frist White House effort.
Tennessee voters (who, you'll recall, didn't think that much of Al Gore either) said by a margin of 44%-37% that Frist would not make a good president, according to this AP report carried by Nashville's WTVF-5.
"The remaining 19 per cent did not answer," AP says, without speculating on why. Perhaps they doubted the seriousness of the question.
Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee announced yesterday that he will not run for President in 2008. Frist's chances of success faded as the Republican Senate was unable to pass key legislation, and as Republicans took it on the chin in the 2006 Midterm. He does not rule out an eventual run for the White House at a later time. I believe Frist to be a good man, and obviously very intelligent, but his personality and speaking skills are rather dull and uninspiring to say the least. That will probably not change with time.
11.29.06Outgoing Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), who has been preparing for a 2008 white house run for 12 years, has decided to pass on the race. This far into the campaign season, he had expected to have support, but it appears that his lack of charisma and loyal followers was hurting him a lot. On the 29th, he pulled the plug.
