By Steve Clemons

These three can fix any bad mood.

This is an interesting little clip of Bill Clinton discussing Richard Nixon with Elvis Costello. When I helped organize a major Nixon Center conference in Washington in April 1995, Bill Clinton keynoted the event — and I could sense his admiration of and intrigue about many aspects of former President Richard Nixon.

Move over Schwarzenegger. Barack Obama works out every day. EVERY DAY. (Damn him!) I get the pool reports of his comings and goings.

John Kerry takes Foreign Relations. Lieberman keeps Homeland Security. . .

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.