A couple of well-placed insiders have told me that US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad is going to make a quick split after the November 4th election. Some think he is going to position himself to run for the presidency of Afghanistan — which I sincerely hope he does not do.
Obama appointment rumors are spinning like crazy in DC. Very, very hard to tell what is real and what is self-initiated advocacy and perch-mongering from those who think they will help run Obama Land.
Wow. Palin ‘essentially’ implies that she’ll be back to challenge for the presidency in 2012, leaving a McCain aide “speechless.” Why speechless? Well, the battle for 2008 isn’t exactly over. ABC has the transcript out.
I thought that the idea of a 30 minute infomercial on Barack Obama’s approach to policy and life had more downside than upside. I think I was right overall — but Obama’s performance and the package as a whole hit the target — and despite the risk — they will get more upside from this….
This is a surprisingly moving and interesting video featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Justin Timberlake, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Zach Braff, Colin Farrell, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Shia LeBeouf, Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, and Jason Segal.
I snapped this picture on Monday morning this week in Bartlesville, Oklahoma where I paid $2.09 a gallon for gas. Bartlesville is the original home base of Frank Phillips and Phillips 66 (now ConocoPhillips). This ought to worry everyone. We’ll be under $2.
When I find myself nodding in agreement with about 75% of what Jorge Mas Santos, the Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, is saying in a critique of George W. Bush’s wrong-headed US-Cuba policy, I know the world is changing and sense that South Florida politics may be undergoing a sea change.
I have just spent the last 30 minutes kicking around these new country page profiles on Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Morocco. Shadi Hamid of the Project on Middle East Democracy has assembled these portals, which I think are quite good. More later.
Tonight. . .7:15 pm EST. . .(which is Wednesday morning Sydney time), I’ll be talking with the best morning radio talk show host in Sydney, Australia — Deborah Cameron. I do this every Tuesday night DC time. The show streams here.
I’m in Oklahoma today — returning to D.C. on Monday. I paid $2.11 a gallon for gas in Bartlesville in fact. It was $2.36 in Centreville, Maryland on Saturday — and $2.94 in D.C. I just received this extensive profile by the New Yorker‘s Connie Bruck on Senator Chuck Hagel.