Hoping to stay in the mix while the media focus on the fight for Iowa, the Giuliani campaign launches a 60-second spot today on Fox News nationally and tomorrow in New Hampshire and Florida markets. Nothing subtle about this spot:
I was with Hillary Clinton when she met with Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan in 1995. I remember going to an inspiring school for young women who wanted to become professionals–a fairly rare thing–in Islamabad with Clinton (not sure whether Bhutto was with us), and then having lunch with Bhutto at the Prime Minister’s residence. I [...]
Hope everyone had a lovely holiday. Swamplanders have, obviously, been scarce as of late, resting up for what’s to be a fast-paced and hectic couple of weeks head of us. But we’re gearing up now — finalizing car rentals, getting credentials, packing long underwear — and the virtual conversation here, starting today, will increase in [...]
Welcome to Michael Scherer, our terrific new political writer, just arrived from Salon. Here’s his first piece from Iowa.
Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion a year, but the GNP–if we should judge America by that–counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and [...]
I’m not so sure how smart this is as a strategy. Bill Clinton has famously said that elections are about the future–and yet here they are, a deux, strongly implying that this election is about the past. Now, I was a pretty big fan of the Clinton Administration. My book, The Natural, chronicles the substance–as [...]
Maybe this one should be Forgotten Story of the Day. It’s the holiday season on your calendar, but the final weeks before big political contests are also the season for political dirty tricks–usually carried out well under the radar, and discovered, if at all, only after it is too late to do anything about them. [...]
The most reprehensible candidate of the 2008 cycle has left the building, bestowing a nativist bouquet of thorns on the most hypocritical candidate in the field. Which leaves the most nauseating question of Iowa cacucuses: Will Tancredo’s 6%, more or less, follow their leader’s suggestion and vote for Romney–or will they cross the border to [...]
I agree with Paul Krugman’s substantive assessment of the Obama campaign–especially when it comes to the deficiencies of Obama’s health care plan. I also agree with this formulation: I guess I’ve been going on the view that no Democrat is not going to end this war, and no Democrat is going to start another war. [...]
