By Steve Clemons

I have very mixed feelings about the news that Caroline Kennedy is now seeking appointment to Hillary Clinton’s soon to be vacated Senate seat.

I think it was pretty poor form of a journalist to throw anything and to engage in soft violence against President Bush during his press conference in Iraq.

I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America’s next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I just posted a post that I have taken down. I got punk’d or whatever they call it. Here is a brilliantly written “fictional” transcript — that appeared on Daily Kos — but I thought it was real. Lots of profanity, but you will like it.

I’m down visiting with the ARCA Foundation Board at Musgrove on St. Simon’s Island in Georgia after a couple of harsh travel days. Great ideas being bounced around here on how to help animate better public policy and policy activism. Very impressive people here.

Last night, I took this picture at the grand plaza at Concorde in Paris. I’m now flying to Chicago, and then to Jacksonville, and then to. . . Soon, it will end. On the trip, I’ve been thinking about how undefined and blunt the word “corruption” is.

I’m currently sitting in the United Airlines lounge at Washington Dulles Airport — about to fly to Paris. I will be meeting some TWN readers over there. Coincidentally, Francis Fukuyama is sitting here too — going to the same conference I am. . .

(photo credit: Lou Linwei for The New York Times) The U.S. government is about to kick $15 billion over to the U.S. auto industry.

The New York Times offered a strong critique of one of George W. Bush’s exit interviews — and Bush National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley has just issued his protestations. The Times offered this powerful punch: It was skin crawling to hear him tell Mr.

What else can be said about Sean Penn other than that he is an unbelievably extraordinarily gifted actor with a sense of self and social conscience matched by very few in Hollywood.