The first multi-Swamper Cast.

Biden also chimes in:

“Vice President Gore did what nobody else could do – he made global warming a kitchen-table issue. I am confident that our world will reap the benefits of his powerful call-to-action and international leadership for generations to come. Today’s award also recognizes that when it comes to climate change, there’s …

The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times both have stories today on what the LA Times’ Greg Miller describes as CIA Director Michael Hayden’s “highly unusual challenge” to the CIA’s own internal watchdog. As he writes:

The move has prompted concerns that Hayden is seeking to rein in an inspector general who has used the office to

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Gore says he’ll likely endorse a candidate this cycle. There’s speculation that it might be Hillary, if only to facilitate some kind of Gore position in the admin. Personally, I think he may have learned his lesson about getting ahead of himself; another frontrunner flame out (however unlikely) would suck. And she’s certainly not the one …

Terry McAuliffe, tireless in his campaigning and fundraising efforts, befriends a panda.

(The panda is an unlikely ally: His placard is a reference to the Clintons’ reluctance to make their full document archive available to the public. Clearly, McAuliffe’s charm is formidable.)

But, no, Eric Pooley tells us, he still doesn’t want to run for President again.

UPDATE: Point well taken, P_Luk:

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Time Inc doesn’t bother listing his accomplishments — or even linking to the citation of the Nobel Committee — instead we get a couple of hundreds words about speculation regarding

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This press release just in from the Social Security Administration:

First Baby Boomer in Nation to Apply for
Social Security Retirement –Online

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, invites the media to join him and Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the nation’s first Baby Boomer, as she files for her Social Security

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A very brief SwampCast looking at the “Mitt v Rudy” meme.

1. We’re coming to the end of week two of daily SwampCasts. We’ve tried a couple of different approaches and several locations. We’d love to hear from you what works and what doesn’t. Feel free to offer suggestions on improving them production-values wise, but understand we’re operating a little out of the Time comfort zone and outside …

I have to answer two questions from commenter “Elvis Elvisberg”:

Jay, do you buy what Dodd’s spokesman is peddling? And can you smell what the Rock is cooking?

A1: Is Dodd’s adviser putting the best possible spin on the fact that his candidate still hasn’t broken out of the bottom tier, has scarce financial resources and very long odds …