The last time I was calling credit bureaus, those prompts still mostly didn't work. FYI. I think my best bet with those was trying "technical assistance" or something, because that would get me to a person who could transfer me.

Giuliani deep 'in the hole' over campaign debts

“We are deeper in the hole than I thought we would be,” wrote John Gross, the campaign’s treasurer, in an e-mail message to several senior campaign aides obtained by the Times.

“Windown is likely to be less than projected, but travel expenses are higher,” Gross added. “We cannot prefer any one creditor. We probably could make a 10% payment to all qualified creditors at this point, but probably not much more.”

Heh. Giuliani should just call up his creditors and yell "9-11!" at them until they agree to take less money.

School's closed on Monday for parent/teacher conferences.

I think McKinnon is taking a stance, while potentially costing him his job, that is oddly principled.

I think lots of people who go into politics do it from a place of strongly held principles, especially among staff members. Then, the day to day drudgery of the job and the necessary compromises probably sucks the passion away.

It's rare, though, to see action on those principles and I have to say I kind of admire McKinnon for it.

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March 14 is also Einstein's birthday, and International Pi Appreciation Day.

It's rare, though, to see action on those principles and I have to say I kind of admire McKinnon for it.

I just can't figure out what those principles are that would have you divided between Obama and McCain. Unless one of them is a blood relation, it just makes no sense.

to me having the principles and making a public statement about them is the disconnect.

In politics you campaign against the opponent and campaigns almost always get a little ugly. So if you are principled against ugly campaigning, I get that and it is probably gonna be a bit hard to find campaigns to work on. But he seems to be saying he would only be against ugly campaigning against Obama. To me, it seems odd.

Clinton counts on superdelegates

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say.

The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in "pledged'' delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.

But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson.

I've read conflicting things as to whether this would work. Thoughts?

Also,

Clinton -- who initially joined other Democrats in opposing Michigan and Florida's decisions to go ahead with early primaries -- now wants the votes of those primaries counted. The Obama camp thinks that idea is unfair, since candidates were not allowed to campaign in those states, and Clinton alone kept her name on the Michigan ballot, meaning Obama did not have a chance at getting even provisional delegates.

What Hilary wants amounts to changing the rules after the fact because it would help her. Hopefully she at least won't get this.

I'm spiraling down today - anyone have any happies to share?

anyone have any happies to share?

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