Funny Ha, Ha More Than Funny Strange

• “International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum… ‘Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.’” [Abyss and Apex] • “Great Moments in Journalism: Hillary Was in White House on [...]

Take Back America

Not unsurprisingly, Obama won the Take Back America straw poll. The progressives today finish their annual three-day conference here in DC. A whopping 72% were for Obama, compared to 16% for Clinton, with just 12% saying they’d be happy with either. And 69% said Obama was better equipped to beat McCain versus 15% for Clinton. [...]

Emails Every Reporter Likes to Get

The Clinton campaign, there with the quotes you need — before you need them!: A report out of Michigan suggests that the legislation for a new vote is stalled while a proposal is being floated in Florida to address the situation there. [Looking for this.--amc] Below are statements attributable to me in case you’re tracking [...]

In the Arena

McCain’s Sunni Shi’ites

I was going to give John McCain a break on his Al Qaeda-Iran gaffe yesterday. After all, it wasn’t a Kinsleyian gaffe–the inadvertant blurting of an unacceptable truth–it was just a plain old slip of the tongue, a brain fart. Surely, McCain knows that Iran is Shi’ite and Al Qaeda is Sunni…and I’ve been pretty [...]

McCain Campaign Gets All Ironic in Obama’s Grill

Whether or not you find the repeated use of what we called “scare quotes” in graduate school a sign of pique or merely snarky is up to readers. I do, however, look forward to these guys debating. “Senator Obama says that ending the war will not be easy, that ‘there will be dangers involved.’ Yet, [...]

Clinton Conference Call 3/18/08

You know, I am trying to believe there’s nothing weird about how I haven’t been getting regular invitations to the conference calls since I started giving them “close coverage,” but sometimes…. In any case, direct audio for today’s here.

Who Didn’t Vote in the Florida and Michigan Democratic Primaries?

One of the suggestions being made as a way out of this Florida/Michigan morass is simply to seat the delegates based on the actual vote. But is that fair, given that voters in those states had been told that the results wouldn’t count? How many Democrats decided not to vote as a result? Or decided [...]

In the Arena

And Still More Obama: On Iraq

Barack Obama’s Big Iraq speech–a day after his Big Race speech–is something of a mixed bag. He is still insisting that he can pull most US troops out of Iraq in 16 months, which his former advisor Samantha Power accurately described as “a best case scenario.” But the real value of Obama’s speech was his [...]

The Most Transparent Candidate Since All the Other Transparent Candidates

Have at it, blogosphere. Don’t forget to write.

Five Years Young: Vanity Fair’s Iraq Archive

The signs never got better, exactly: “There’s white, there’s black, and there’s gray,” a recently retired army recruiting-station commander told me. “Any recruiter who’s successful lives in the gray and goes into the black pretty often.… There’s no way to recruit within the rules and be successful.” That’s from 2005′s “The Recruiters’ War.” There’s a [...]