I’m pleased that Joe has officially given up the Boomer’s claim on Obama. Can we now also have back civil rights, feminism, Bob Dylan, and the “good” years of Saturday Night Live?
You can keep John Kerry.
Not completely unrelated, and speaking to Jay’s point about the apparent arbitrariness of generational markers: Has anyone else …
HRC’s people are very eager to point out that, you know, REALLY: THEY DID NOT CANCEL THE PRESS CONFERENCE BECAUSE OF OBAMA. No, THIS IS THE TRUTH: Rep. McHugh was sick. And he’s a Republican, which means they sort of needed him if they were going to do the anti-war dance that was rumored to take place at today’s canceled event.
Also, …
Surprising no one: Hillary’s presser today — thought by some to be a prelude to renouncing her support for the invasion of Iraq — has been canceled, presumably to avoid a news cycle show-down between the long-reigning frontrunner and a certain junior senator from Illinois.
UPDATE: Staffers have put the word out that the press …
So much for our career as a political consultants. As for announcing online — it might seem like an appeal to those young people we keep hearing about but it’s really old school: First Brownback with the flat tax, now Barack’s virtual venue: Who knew Steve Forbes would turn out to be the campaign technique trailblazer?
Comments here and elsewhere have criticized our highlighting the exchange between Condi Rice and Barbara Boxer as either sexist or as a distraction from the “real debate,” i.e., the war itself (and its probable expansion). I’ll grant that “womb wars” was probably not the most accurate description of the issue that’s at stake here; namely, …
800,000 Privileged Youths Enlist To Fight In Iraq
Private Jonathan Grace, 18, who was to commence studies at Dartmouth College next fall, but will instead attend 12 weeks of basic training before being deployed to Fallujah with the 1st Army Battalion [said] “Whether I agree with the war or not, our president needs us, and I’ll be damned
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Today’s WSJ brings an important clarification on Nancy Pelosi’s newly instituted ban on smoking near the floor of the House, which Representatives had been permitted to do, despite a District-wide ban on smoking in the workplace:
But Congress often exempts itself from the law. Unlike most other employees, members of Congress are exempt
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Some reliable swooners seem to have been underwhelmed by the speech last night. Over at Powerline, John Hinderacker, who memorably once described a meeting with Bush as “the most inspiring forty minutes I’ve experienced in politics” and and Bush himself as a “man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius,” said Bush …
Okay, I get Osama-Obama, but this, from Yahoo News, is ridiculous:
9:01 PM: Stumble on the first sentence. He didn’t even get to the “pulling the statue down” segment.
9:02 PM: LOOK! There are books behind him. I sense an air of … smartness…
9:03 PM: “Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me”? Where? Like, somewhere else in addition to Iraq?
9:04 PM: First mention, …
As we prepare to hear the, what, fifth (?) announcement of a “plan for victory” in Iraq since “Mission Accomplished”, it’s instructive to wander down Memory Lane and visit the hollow reams of punditry that helped convince the American people that the war was a good idea. Particularly appalling are those arguments that seems based solely …
Live-blogging the Surge Speech @ 9pm. Has anyone come up with a drinking game yet?
One of those slick reporter types tried to trip up a Senior Administration Official this afternoon by pointing out that, you know, “nothing short of victory” (past Bush assertion) is not exactly compatible with “our commitment is not open-ended” (current Bush assertion). And, of course, there’s this:
Can you tell us whether the
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