–A new Washington Post/ABC News poll out this morning suggests Sarah Palin’s public image has taken a serious hit. A 55 percent majority say they have an unfavorable view of the former governor and a devastating 71 percent say she is unqualified to be president, up ten points from November. David Broder seems to fall [...]
Initial reports seem to indicate that the Khamenei regime was able to arrange massive crowds–and the green protesters not so many–for the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution. If true, this would be a clear setback for the anti-regime movement…but it’s probably best to reserve judgment until more complete reporting from Tehran emerges. At the [...]
This is the term Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company now called Xe, allegedly used to classify the salary of a Filipino prostitute who worked with the company’s male employees in Afghanistan. Her salary was allegedly billed to the U.S. Government, and is now the subject of a civil whistle blower lawsuit filed by two [...]
The only grade that matters for a politician is what comes out of the ballot box. But that doesn’t keep the political class from constantly grading the performance of most pols. Today, The Associated Press’s Jennifer Loven and Liz Sidoti offer a pretty damning report card, with a few important qualifications, for President Obama. The [...]
On Palin. Update: On the other hand, the American people don’t seem to be buying it. And More: Greg Sargent thinks that if she runs, she implodes. I don’t know; he might be right. But I remember people saying that about Reagan.
The Vice President on Sarah Palin: more about "Joe Biden Stays Classy", posted with vodpod
It’s not much fun when your friends get into a deep, personal, cage-match sort of fight. In this case, the fight is between Andrew Sullivan and Leon Wieseltier–people I respect, love and admire. Leon has launched a nuclear attack on Sullivan’s writings about neoconservatives and Israel: Criticism of Israeli policy, and sympathy for the Palestinians, [...]
From Texas comes word that Charlie Wilson’s heart–his second–finally gave out. Which wasn’t all that surprising, when you considered how much he had lived. If you measured Charlie Wilson’s life in years, it came to only 76. But if you looked at the number of miles the former Texas Congressman put on his odometer, well, [...]
The First Lady on Sarah Palin, and other topics: more about "Michelle Obama Stays Classy", posted with vodpod
As Adam notes below, President Obama appears to have moderated his bank-pay fury in a recent interview with Bloomberg/BusinessWeek. (Is it is a coincidence that regulatory reform is, as he speaks, teetering on a knife edge in the Senate?) Of the combined $26 million in stock coming to JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman [...]
