…At least, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This was a terrific event. Columbia President Lee Bollinger totally, and very effectively, trashed the guy in his introduction. I would have liked a sharper question on the holocaust: What specifically do you think is incomplete about the current research? Do you believe that 6 million Jews were killed? [...]

Rough, but real, quote from translation from Ahmedinajad’s speech: Let me tell you a joke. I think these leaders, that are building nuclear bombs…they are retarded. He’ll be here all week. Try the veal. UPDATE: Seriously, I now think we shouldn’t be that worried about these guys. I mean, how much trouble can a country [...]

It’s a sad day for the GOP when their most-covered sop to values voters stems from a bit of cell phone pantomime and not an attempt to engage with, you know, actual values voters. As other outlets have reported, Alan Keyes headlined last week’s “Values Voter” debate (they gave him his own podium!), the highlight [...]

I confess, when I read this: Dick Cheney doesn’t put much stock in the conventional wisdom that he is the most powerful vice president in American history. In fact, he jokes that he is more like “the flavor of the month.” My first thought was to create this: Unfortunately, the pleasure that comes from creating [...]

• Is there a side to Mukasey that Chuck Schumer didn’t know? “Mukasey, 66, reassured top hard-liners…[he] said that he saw ‘significant problems’ with shutting down Guantánamo Bay and that he understood the need for the CIA to use some ‘enhanced’ interrogation techniques against Qaeda suspects. Mukasey also signaled reluctance with naming a special prosecutor [...]

While Hillary’s get of Evan Bayh is getting more attention in the national media, Obama’s pick-up of Fischer has a pleasing symbolic punch: Fischer was last seen at Hillary’s Des Moines health care speech. Also, there’s a question of who’s endorsement can actually help their candidate where it matters. As an Obama staffer put it: [...]

McCain’s surprise second place finish at the Mackinac staw poll is another sign of a possible resurgence. McCain spoke last at the event, when everyone, in theory should have been tired and bored and, well, decided. Oh, and he lost his Michigan campaign chair just days before. But he wowed the crowd, garnering one of [...]

The Obama campaign is holding a conference call now announcing that their candidate is being endorsed by Gordon Fischer, former Iowa Democratic state party chair. A nice pick-up in a state where experience getting people to the caucuses is a huge plus.

She did fine. She refused to be baited by Chris Wallace. She handled the MoveOn.Org “Betrayus” ad well, putting it in the same category as the Swift Boat ads in 2004, and those comparing Max Cleland to Osama Bin Laden in 2002…but this is still a terrible weight for Democrats to carry and it is [...]