To the degree that Hillary Clinton is still really pursuing an upset in Texas and Ohio and not in fact negotiating for other positions in Obamaland, this polling data from the Des Moines Register is going to be hard to shake off.
A friend, John McAuliff, has a letter in the New York Times today in response to a very good editorial the Tims ran last week titled “Twilight of the Dictators: And a Chance for Cuba — and the U.S.
Monday evening, I’m taking off for Tel Aviv and will be spending the balance of the week in Ramallah, Jerusalem and perhaps Jericho. I’ll be reporting back on what folks see as the real state of play on the Annapolis Summit Israel/Palestine peace effort.
Today, 11:45 am Mountain Time, 1:45 pm EST, I’ll be on “Action Point with Cynthia Black” discussing Fidel Castro’s announcement that he is stepping down as Cuba’s president and the impact this news may have on US-Cuba relations and our presidential politics.
I wonder if some of the nation’s Republican stalwarts will fund Nader this round? I don’t think Nader can impact this election — but this is an example of a person who was great allowing extreme vanity to take over.
Sunday morning at 7 am, I’ll be on Bob Salter’s “K-Rock Magazine” (WXRK-92.3) in New York talking for 20 minutes about Fidel Castro’s announcement that he’s stepping down and the impact on presidential campaigns and US-Cuba relations.
At 9:56 pm Thursday night, Clinton Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson sent out this statement about Hillary’s concluding, cheer-generating comments at the UT Austin debate: What we saw in the final moments in that debate is why Hillary Clinton is the next President of the United States. Her strength, her life experience, her compassion.
Did I hear Hillary Clinton concede tonight? I think that gesture at the end of the debates, the failure to really go after Barack Obama on a number of fronts, her sitting there with a blank-ish stare for much of the time he got into a high tempo oratory zone indicated to me that she…
(A shorter (very well edited) version of this article appeared on The Guardian‘s “Comment is Free” website.) Damien Corsetti may be the Ron Kovic of our time. Corsetti is one of the featured commentators in Alex Gibney’s powerful, Oscar-nominated film, Taxi to the Dark Side.
Just back from Japan — thanks to Sameer Lalwani and Scott Paul for keeping the wheels rolling while I was in air.
