In a statement Wednesday morning on Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama spoke of his friend and supporter Ted Kennedy. His seriousness of purpose was perpetually matched by humility, warmth and good cheer. He compassion — passionately battled others and do so peerlessly on the Senate floor for the causes that he held dear and yet still [...]
Rarely has a politician, or a political dynasty, been so identified with a single passage from a single poem. At the 1980 Democratic convention, in perhaps his most remembered public address, Edward Moore Kennedy quoted from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Ulysses, and then added some words of his own. After the jump, I have posted the [...]
Ted Kennedy fought longer than the doctors had expected he could, and yet, died before he could see the outcome of the battle that he had often described as the greatest cause of his life. “This whole issue in terms of universal and comprehensive care has always burned in my soul,” he said in a [...]
I was on the phone earlier this evening with a friend in Kabul who analyzed the early returns in the Afghan elections, which show President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah running neck and neck. The results–10% of the vote is in–are mostly from more urban areas like Kabul and Herat. None of [...]
The New York Times ran a front-page story today about a quiet man who drove a long distance with his wife to attend a town meeting in Georgia hosted by his Congressman Sanford Bishop. The guy was there because his wife has breast cancer and he’s worried that the Obama health care plan will force [...]
As Michael Scherer notes below, Dick Cheney has now accused the Obama Administration of politicizing the Justice Department…after his Administration criminalized the Justice Department. But then, we’ve come to expect goofball stuff from the former veep who served, in effect, as President of Foreign Policy in GW Bush’s first term.
Former vice president Dick Cheney has responded to the Monday release of new CIA documents, showing abuse, mismanagement and potential criminal violations in the harsh interrogation program that he approved. He offers a striking statement for three reasons. But first a look at what Cheney says:
From the Swampland London bureau, Glen Levy reports that conservative pols are looking to “The Wire” (which has been off the air on this side of the pond for more than a year) for inspiration: A never-ending battle between the police and gangs? Law and order simply impossible to maintain? And the green fields of [...]
After years of delay, the CIA declassified a raft of documents Monday, with lots of detail about the Bush Administration’s harsh treatment of detainees following the September 11 attacks. The biggest document, with the most new detail, is a 2004 report by the CIA Inspector General (CIA IG) that is highly critical of the CIA’s [...]
