Apologies for the scant appearances of late. I have literally written thousands and thousands of words. In a row! I had forgotten how difficult that is.
In any case, I guess I’ve missed a lot. Apparently, the press has turned on Obama! That’s at least third or fourth time that’s happened, still waiting for it to matter. And speaking of …
TIME’s new poll out today shows Obama with a slight lead over McCain. The top line numbers are Obama 47% to McCain 43% with 8% undecided. The poll shows a significantly narrower race than Newsweek (Obama +15) or the L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll (Obama +12) or even the RealClearPolitics average, which has Obama +6.3. On the other hand, …
Barack Obama had some interesting thoughts on two of the Supreme Court decisions this week that would seem to indicate he’s trending to the middle. First, the court decided that child rape was not a Capital Crime. Obama told reporters yesterday that his decision to oppose the ruling was an emotional one as he has two daughters around …
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Funny how quickly this always gets back to Germany, as Andrew Sullivan notes. For the record, and once again: Iraq is not Germany, nor is it South Korea. Iran is not Nazi Germany, nor the Soviet Union. The Islamist radicals are a terrible danger, as we learned on 9/11, but not an existential threat to the U.S. Any attempt to compare the …
A review of the book by “the only person in the history of Virginia to be elected to statewide office with a union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos.”
It’s either a sign that rumors of irreconcilable differences were overblown, or that, well, the irreconcilable differences are overblown:
In the primary, aides to Mrs. Clinton referred to their rival as B.H.O. — initials of Barack Hussein Obama, including his middle name, which has been a politically sensitive issue — while Mr.
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A seasonal conceit.
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OK, let me get this straight: An Islamic country with a shaky government, which possesses nuclear weapons, and is harboring the terrorists who hatched the 9/11 plot, and whose intelligence service is now accused of having tried to assassinate the leader of its neighbor…and they’re our ally?
It seems clear that the Pakistani …
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As I was saying yesterday, there would be more encouraging developments from North Korean soon. Now comes word that the North Koreans will blow up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear power plant, the source of the plutonium used to make its bombs. Congratulations to George W. Bush for finally making the correct choice–diplomatic …
Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe spent a little over an hour briefing the Washington press corps at the DNC today. In a tone that could only be described as confident, Plouffe laid out their General Election strategy in a power point slide show. Here’s a brief summary:
1) Hold the states that Kerry won in 2004, which accounted …
I write about the stupidity of Blackberry politics, the AP writes about two candidates failing the authenticity contest, Jay Newton-Small has a piece today about how Obama may be acting like the “typical politician” he rails against. Now Dan Balz weighs in on the same theme, also hoping for better:
Gone in the early stages of this
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I’ve been reluctant to comment on the terrific job of negotiating with the North Koreans that Christopher Hill has done–mostly because of a conflict of interest: my son, a foreign service officer, has been on Hill’s staff for the past year. But the kid is moving on to his next assignment and so I feel free to link to Steve Clemons’ news …
Jay might think that a terrorist attack (heaven forfend, etc) would “probably” benefit McCain, but polling on the issue in terms of party* suggests the odds are even — granted, the data are a year old, but it’s not like the Republicans have gotten more popular during the interval. What’s more, if we take the unspeakable off the table, …
