Despite my admittedly snarktastic coverage of this week’s YouTube debate, I was mildly intrigued by the prospect of the GOP version. Would they get videos from troops in Iraq? Maybe a pregnant woman asking about abortion? There would be opportunities for theater and for real people, if also for more hillbillies and singing snowmen. Whatevs. [...]
You can tell that the Bush Administration has no problem with torture because they keep sending Gonzales back to the Hill. The fact that he hasn’t already admitted that he’s bin Laden’s driver, a 9/11 planner, and the one who told Bush about Santa Claus is, truly, a testament to his fortitude. Think Progress has [...]
Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant than we are when it comes to the creative use of the mother tongue.) Others, involving defecation and copulation, can be effective [...]
I have a piece in the coming print issue of Time on the hard-to-meet expectations being heaped by fretful Republicans on Fred Thompson’s I’ll-get-in-someday campaign for the GOP nomination. The piece is already posted here. It says volumes about the state of the party, and about the level of discontent among GOP voters with the [...]
This seems to me a significant statement from two prominent conservatives on the Bush Administration’s stubborn, foolish and disgraceful efforts to continue to evade the Geneva Convention. Update: Those commenters–you know who you are–who wonder why it’s taken me “so long” to get on the torture and Gonzalez cases might want to read this column, [...]
So we do pay attention to your concerns, or try to, about technical matters and the troll problem, as well as spam comments, which are more of a problem on other Time blogs. I forwarded Trifecta’s Terrapin (sorry! T names!) plea from the last comment thread to our guide to blog matters, and he responded: [...]
Greg Sargent over at TPM has the transcript of remarks Barack Obama just made slamming Hillary Clinton, a continuation of the tiff that began during Monday night’s Youtube debate. So, reality check: Substantively, this isn’t about very much at all. Both candidates would go about–finally!–talking to the rogue states in the same way: cautiously, but [...]
The Obama campaign is pushing back hard against initial reports that Obama yesterday touted his foreign policy expertise as being the best of any candidate, in either party. Obama’s people contend that the junior senator from Illinois was referring to his life experience, as someone who’s both lived overseas and had family in foreign countries. [...]
My colleague Mark Halperin tells me that CNN has taken the clever step of getting the Florida Republican Party and Governor Charlie Crist to co-sponsor the CNN/YouTube Republican debate…Which will make it hard for the candidates to chicken out. Can’t wait.
