Wednesday, June 14, 2006
DAYAHEAD: Elsewhere in the political world ...
  • President Bush took the red-eye flight back from Baghdad and arrived back in Washington in the wee hours of the morning. There are no big surprises in his schedule today, at least as far as we know. He'll hold a Rose Garden presser at 9:45 a.m. ET, postponed by yesterday's trip, then meet with the president of Colombia this morning at 11 a.m. ET. He'll discuss his Iraq trip with his Iraq Study Group, and then round out the day with First Lady Laura Bush at a picnic for members of Congress on the White House South Lawn.

  • Former New York Mayor and maybe-White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani held his first fundraiser in some time for his Solutions America leadership PAC last night in New York City. Giulani told the crowd what many presidential candidates-in-waiting have said about 2008: "This is really so that we can insure that we have a Republican Congress in 2006. You know, everyboydy has started thinking about 2008 way earlier than any election has started before.... There is a long way to getting to 2008." Rudy had about $234,000 in his PAC's coffers at the end of April, and has not raised any money for his PAC all year until yesterday's event. He hired a fund-raiser last month, so expect to see more events down the pike.

  • Secretary of State and unlikely-but-not-impossible 2008 candidate Condoleezza Rice will deliver a foreign policy address this morning at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. It's of course not surprising for a U.S. Secretary of State to deliver a foreign policy speech; if she speaks next week on the wonders of ethanol, we'll let you know.

  • Former Vice President Al Gore appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Tuesday night as part of his "I Don't Have Plans to Be a Candidate Again" promotional tour for his book and movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore again said that he does not "expect" to be a presidential candidate in 2008, and media professionals, such us myself, continue to report on it.

  • 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards is in Honolulu, Hawaii, today meeting with local hotel workers. Earlier this week, Edwards was in Iowa campaigning for local candidates

  • Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) heads to New Hampshire for a two-day trip. He started the day at the famous "Politics and Eggs" event hosted by the New Hampshire Political Library and the New England Council, and will keynote the Manchester Democratic party's Flag Day Dinner tonight.

  • Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) is the latest 2008 hopeful to address the Campaign for America's Future's "Take Back America" conference this morning in Washington, D.C.

  • Fresh from an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman will take questions from Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., tonight as part of their "American Conversations" series.
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