The breakdown of presidential candidates’ votes on the motion: To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces. Biden [...]
When Barack Obama announced last month that he would no longer accept invitations to speak at candidate forums or debates that were not sanctioned by the DNC, his rationale made plenty of sense, at least in principle. As campaign manager David Plouffe noted in his memo at the time: Unfortunately, we simply cannot run the [...]
Actually, Ana, Bush is lifting this line from Ryan Crocker, who used it no fewer than twice during the hearings. Guess the President was watching an awful lot of CSPAN last week.
The “DREAM Act” would allow undocumented high school graduates with no criminal record who have been the country for at least five years (and who entered the country before they were 16) a form of “conditional” legal status. They then must complete two years of college or two years of service in the military. In [...]
Favorite surreal moment of this Bush presser so far: “People ask me, where’s Mandela? Well, Mandela’s DEAD! Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.” It took me a second to realize the exact kind of cultural analogy he was making; at first I thought that, in the tradition of 2003, Bush had simply just tacked the [...]
