I have a friend, Roee, who just sent me moving personal commentary of his own thinking about sin and atonement in the context of spending time with a Chinese immigrant family in San Francisco. I am not going to post his piece — but it did remind me that Yom Kippur starts tonight.
First question is on the economy. Both Obama and McCain are doing well in responding to a person’s query about what to do with the average family being undermined by current economic conditions. John McCain and Obama both started to walk around and try to talk to the audience.
I’ll be live-blogging the debate tonight — at home where I’ve been lounging a bit, still recovering from a night of too many pomegranate martinis with Israel/Palestine peace pusher Daniel Levy and a journalist I can’t mention.
Streaming Video by Ustream.TV Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett will outline their thoughts on a “U.S.-Iran Grand Bargain” today at 12:00 noon EST at the New America Foundation. I’ll be chairing the session. The article titled “The Grand Bargain” that accompanies today’s event can be read in the latest issue of the Washington Monthly….
Streaming live video by Ustream One of the nation’s leading progressive economists, James K. Galbraith, will be speaking today about his new book, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, at the New America Foundation from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EST.
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood is one of the most positive but emotionally destabilizing and unusual personal memoirs I have read in many years.
Really interesting debate. I had a lot of thoughts, which I’ve got logged below. But Joe Biden showed what a steady, thoughtful, capable pro he is. And while Palin didn’t have any of the disasters she has had in her recent interviews, she came off as an impressive amateur.
Gwen Ifill starts. The candidates are all smiles and first names. . . First question to Joe Biden.
TWN contributor Brian Till may be ‘on the ground in St. Louis‘, but I’m at a bar in Vienna, Austria — and am planning to stay up until 3 am here (I know. . .the 3 am call. . .
A loyal TWN reader just caught this clip on MSNBC’s “Race for the White House with David Gregory,” The clip is with former Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.
