All Blog Posts from From The Road

by Michelle Levi and Steve Chaggaris

OBAMA is in Amman, Jordan today where he will meet with King Abdullah this evening. Prior to his meeting, he will hold a press conference with Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., with whom he toured Iraq and Afghanistan the past few days.

McCAIN is in Rochester, N.H. today where he’ll meet with the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader in Rochester, N.H. before holding a town hall meeting at noon. Later this evening McCain heads to Baltimore for a fund-raiser.

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From CBS News' Jamie Farnsworth:

(CINCINNATI) A memo circulated by the McCain campaign Thursday morning calls for an end to partisan bickering and promotes putting the country before politics. In the same statement, the campaign hits the Bush Administration for having “disappointed many” and hits Sen. Obama for never putting “his career on the line for a cause greater than himself.”

The campaign memo goes on to highlight Sen. Obama’s decision to forego public financing and slams the presumptive Democratic nominee for frequent “present” votes in the Senate. It also aligns the Obama campaign with the same “old typical politics that have broken Washington.”

The McCain memo closes with these words: “We don't need to trade Republican partisanship for Democratic partisanship. We need to put our country first and put our politics second. That is what John McCain has done his whole life, and that is what he will do as President.”

From CBS News' Aaron Lewis:

TULSA, OKLA. -- Bill Murray was nowhere to be found in the House of Representatives last night. But according to John Edwards, George Bush's State of the Union address looked like one of Murray's movies about repeating the same daily routines over and over again.

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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

TAMPA, FLA. -- On the morning of the critical Florida primary, Mitt Romney applauded President Bush’s remarks on Iraq during last night’s State of the Union address.

“I thought it was very impressive,” Romney said to a crowd of about 150 at a rally in Tampa. “This is a person who’s no longer looking for a political career. He’s only thinking about what’s right for the country — what’s right for America.”

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From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

STORY CITY, IOWA -- With just six days left until the Iowa caucus Clinton has a new campaign strategy: to scare Americans straight.

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From CBS News' Joy Lin:

SIOUX CITY, IOWA – Mike Huckabee stood by comments he made yesterday that despite his criticism of the Bush Administration’s manner of conducting foreign policy, he had respect for President Bush and Condoleezza Rice.

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From CBS News' Joy Lin:

WEST DES MOINES, IA – During a media availability last night, Mike Huckabee said it was “sad” that his opponents attacked his recent foreign policy speech since “they themselves disagreed with many of the points of the president’s policy” but “don’t want to admit that they did.”

Huckabee pointed out that his argument for increasing lines of communication with other countries wasn’t a personal attack on President Bush. He also elaborated on his argument for increasing lines of communication with other countries.

“This isn’t about the president, it’s about his administration’s policies, and so what I clearly spelled out was that, we need to have the kind of policies more that resemble when his father was president – when we didn’t say that if you aren’t with us right now…then that means you’re with the enemy.”

From CBS News' Joy Lin, who's trying to escape New England before today's big snowstorm:

LITTLETON, N.H. -- Mike Huckabee asked reporters Saturday, “Do you have any good news for me?” He ticked off the questions he had been asked – "Let’s see, Romney’s out to get me, an independent group is doing stuff to hurt me, Thompson’s basically keeping the post office in business…”

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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

HUMBOLDT, Iowa- Mitt Romney ripped into Iowa frontrunner Mike Huckabee at a town hall in Humboldt, Iowa, this morning over an article Huckabee penned in the current issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. In the article, the former Arkansas governor accused the Bush administration of having an “arrogant bunker mentality” on the world stage.

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- Rudy Giuliani told reporters today that if you read the NIE report carefully, it shows President Bush "deserves credit" in his decision to invade Iraq.

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