Rumors are swirling that Tim Pawlenty is furious – that he was on the edge of McCain announcing he was the GOP VP running mate – but that at the last moment, that course was rejected in favor of a person McCain met once, six months ago, and did not interview again.
I’ve been participating in an interesting daily blogger poll organized by Tom Madigan at National Journal. Today, he reports that right of center bloggers think Sarah Palin is a big plus for the McCain ticket.
Nader Mousavizadeh, former special assistant to and speechwriter for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Goldman Sachs executive, just sent over his oped, “How to Navigate the New Global Archipelago,” which appeared in the Times of London on Friday, John McCain’s birthday.
In part, it means something I blogged yesterday was wrong. It happens now and then. Yesterday, I wrote a piece here at TWN that tried to share with readers how I got some insights into the Joe Biden VP selection story a bit earlier than the mainstream.
John McCain’s decision to choose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to run with him on the GOP ticket can be about many things — wanting to bring in someone genuinely from the outside, wanting to embrace the reality that women can serve in all capacities and in all levels of government and the military, wanting to…
Jake Colvin, a fellow blogger over at The Havana Note, captured this pic at the BIG TENT at the Democratic National Convention. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has apparently finally signed on to help Dem candidate Joe Garcia challenge one of her other monomaniacal anti-Cuba pals, Republican Mario Diaz-Balart.
This just in from Open Left‘s Matt Stoller — the “hot beef sundae” in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Heavily armed police teams in groups of 20 or 30 are raiding private homes in St. Paul. According to one woman who spoke to FireDogLake’s Lindsay Beyerstein, asking to see a warrant gets one immediately “detained.” Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald dropped in on a raided St. Paul home shortly after the cops descended.
I’ve known Pat Buchanan for a long time, from a comfortable arm’s lenth – met him first in 1987. His comments in this clip are an important benchmark of Obama’s ability to reach beyond lines that seemed impenetrable.
(Obama foreign policy team members Ben Rhodes, Denis McDonough, and UT Austin LBJ School Dean Jim Steinberg arriving in Amman, Jordan 21 July 21.
