Someone forwarded me an email to take this American Public Media quiz that would select my preferred candidate based on my policy preferences. It’s a very appealing approach to abstract away personalities and nuance and purport to objectively measure candidates simply on the issues.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2:30 pm, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson will be speaking to the Real Estate Roundtable’s State of the Industry Meeting. According to a press release, he will discuss the state of the U.S. economy and the fiscal growth package.
. . .if not in politics (he says facetiously). The Washington Post has just launched a new website, The Root, which will attempt to provide a portal for all things cultural and political related to the African-American community. Here is a video intro.
I have friends now addicted to clicking this over and over and over again.
I just did a video log of my reactions to President Bush’s speech last night and will post in a bit — but my quick bullet point response to the evening included these items: 1. This was Bush’s least memorable speech because it may have been his least stridently partisan. 2.
I haven’t seen President Bush’s speech yet — just highlights — though about to watch it tonight. Wolf Blitzer, though, just said that Bush revisits the theme of the “axis of evil” tonight. Mistake.
According to Andrew Malcolm, Rudy Giuliani dropped a hint that he might drop out of the race — and then bounced back to say he’d win Florida. Dems will miss Guiliani I think. He was the best hope that they had of a relatively easy win in November.
This evening, in about 20 minutes, I’ll be chatting with Terrence McNally on KPFK Pacifica Radio’s Free Forum with Terrence McNally. I’ll be up between 8:20 and 8:30 PM EST. Sorry for the late notice. Just before me, Tom Hayden — who endorsed Obama today — will be talking about the elections.
The State of the Union address is a stuffy affair to watch — unless one is lucky enough to be sitting in the gallery (which I did one year when Bill Clinton was President).