Mike Huckabee retains a rosy view of his occasionally stunning, but ultimately losing campaign for the White House. “I kind of like to think of my campaign not as we lost,” he says, “but as the game ended before we finished playing.” So, of course, he has no reservations about starting all over. Not that [...]
• “[Y]‘all seen this television ad on, where Hillary’s opponent says I don’t take money from oil companies? …[G]uess what? … It’s been illegal to take political contributions from oil companies for 100 years. It’s almost like saying, you know, ‘Vote for me, I brush my teeth every morning.’ Or, ‘Vote for me, I never [...]
Perhaps it is fitting here that we pause for a moment and reflect upon a man who was unappreciated in his own time, but who, if this ABC News report is accurate, may be judged more kindly by history:
Ashcroft may be right that history will judge the administration harshly for its more explicit collusion in the use of torture but history might have to be the only judge: I don’t think those involved can be prosecuted under the definition of torture codified in the Detainee Treatment Act or the Military Commissions Act. (Which, [...]
Commenter Paul Dirks makes a nomination for a story that should be getting more attention. We should watch the briefing rooms at the various agencies for more questions about this report from ABC News: In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific [...]
On the cover of the dead-tree TIME that comes out tomorrow is a remarkable profile of S. Ann Soetoro by our very talented colleague Amanda Ripley. The whole thing is well worth reading, and I especially love this passage: But Obama is his mother’s son. In his wide-open rhetoric about what can be instead of [...]
