Abubakr Al-Qirbi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Yemen, addresses the general debate of the sixty-third session of the General Assembly. (official United Nations photo) Below the break follows the official statement from Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs about would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
I have been pretty busy today and unable to post much — but after many emails after the holiday pup pics, I thought I’d share one other. Oakley, Annie and Buddy send their greetings. Very glad that there wasn’t a disaster in Detroit. I hope to address the issue of terror threats tomorrow.
Two years ago on Christmas Eve, I wrote a piece for Huffington Post and the Washington Note titled “When the Intolerant Kill Christmas.” According to my friends at Huffington Post, more than half a million people read that piece.
Merry Christmas to all from Oakley, Annie, Buddy, and the team that brings you The Washington Note! — Steve Clemons
Had Ted Kennedy been alive today, either Ben Nelson would not have been able to undermine women’s health care equities and move his anti-abortion beliefs into national consequence or Joe Lieberman would not have been able to get included in the health care bill nearly whatever the big insurers wanted — no matter how much…
President Obama did a very good job, in my view, outlining in this NPR interview the positives in the health care package that has not been completely ironed out in Congress, but in his terms, is 95% there.
My friend and colleague Nicholas Thompson — a senior editor at Wired, a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, and the grandson of strategist and Kennan-thorn Paul Nitze — has a terrific new book out about the personal and intellectual rivalry and relationship between Nitze and George Kennan.
Wow. David Axelrod acknowledged this statement today from David Gregory on Meet the Press: [Barack Obama] supported the public option. He did not fight for it till the end of the day.
President Obama demonstrated his work-the-situation prowess in Copenhagen in which he molded a meeting planned with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who may have been trying to duck Obama, into a five way chat between the leaders of China, Brazil, India, South Africa and the United States. When Obama is on, he really is on.
