Barack Obama asked his finance committee this afternoon to help Senator Hillary Clinton retire her debt. On a conference call that lasted about 45 minutes Obama made a personal plea to his top donors, telling them he considered it a personal imperative now that Democrats are all “one big family,” a donor who was on [...]
Charlie Crist, governor of Florida, may have just done more to save the Everglades than anyone since Marjory Stoneman Douglas. On Time.com today, Michael Grunwald, a modern heir to Douglas in his knowlege of and passion for the Everlades, explains Crist’s agreement to have the state of Florida buy out U.S. Sugar’s lands in the [...]
My post below, re the surge, has set off squeals of outrage over at Contentions, the Commentary magazine blog. This is to be expected, but still sad when one of the squealers is Max Boot, whose work I admire. But Boot, a McCain advisor, goes so far as to reinforce his candidate’s call for 100 [...]
In Michael Kinsley’s famous formulation, a gaffe is what happens when a politician says what he actually thinks is true. As the latest skirmish in the Outrage Wars shows, Kinsley’s formulation now applies to political strategists as well. When asked by Fortune Magazine how a terrorist attack on U.S. soil between now and the election [...]
I think David Brooks has it essentially right here about Bush’s stubborness–as opposed to his knowledge of strategy or tactics or the situation on the ground in Iraq–as the reason why he made the correct choice on Iraq in late 2006. But, as Brooks says, history is complicated–and the current reduction in violence in Iraq [...]
Bill Keller is a publicity-savvy televangelist with a penchant for politics who works out of the back room of a used car lot. Last year, he caused some controversy by announcing that “A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” on his nationwide email list, called LivePrayer.com, which has more than two million recipients. [...]
