Since I posted Hillary Clinton’s attack on Barack Obama last night, I figured it only fair to post Obama’s response, which takes the surprising route of replaying Clinton’s initial attack to defuse it. We see Clinton attack Obama, get jeered for it, and then we are told she is just more of “the same old [...]
Smart speech from Joe Biden (pdf) about national security policy today. Biden is especially good at expanding upon the line of attack launched by Barack Obama in last week’s Petraeus-Crocker hearings: that the two main threats in Iraq, the Sunni terrorists and the Iranians–are either diminishing (Al Qaeda in Iraq) or engaging in beahvior (the [...]
Over his long political career, the presumptive GOP nominee for president has only occasionally tried to disguise his relative disinterest in matters economic. His long record as the scourge of pork-barrel spenders notwithstanding, McCain has for the most part held standard-issue GOP positions on subjects ranging from trade to taxes to social spending, and he [...]
Actual email from actual White House press office… Note: Irony is the weapon of the powerless. So we hope. From: [spokesperson] @who.eop.gov Sent: Mon Apr 14 19:13:21 2008 Subject: Speaker Pelosi really knows how to bring people together… In fact, she has single-handedly managed to unite editorial rooms all across the nation (and beyond) with [...]
