This is a video clip of Barack Obama’s speech yesterday in Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church — Martin Luther King’s church. I reflected on it here — and despite Obama’s surprising and refreshing critique of intolerance in the African-American community, I still don’t like politicking from churches.
OK — I don’t like politicians speaking in churches. I’m behind (or way ahead of) the times. It’s not my kind of thing, and the beginning of Barack Obama’s speech today at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta is the kind of verbage that doesn’t click with me.
One of the few things that would depress me more than Bill Kristol getting a regular column in the New York Times would be Nicholas Kristof or Paul Krugman giving up theirs. Luckily, I don’t think that will happen.
The next President of the United States — whether it’s Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney — is going to have the crap kicked out of him or her by friends and foes around the world. The problem is that America’s mystique as a superpower was shorn off by Iraq….
Hillary Clinton supporters Warren Lowman and Russell Totten caucus for Hillary Clinton in Carson City, Nevada and sent this picture into The Washington Note Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote in Nevada’s Democratic caucus, but Obama’s team may be suggesting that he won because he may have pulled one more delegate than she did.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns speaking at New America Foundation/American Strategy Program Salon Dinner, 2 July 2007 (photo credit: Samuel Sherraden) R. Nicholas “Nick” Burns is a stunningly effective diplomat. There is Dean Acheson DNA in the kind of work he does — but also a little John Foster Dulles….
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns is stepping down from his position in March and retiring in May after 26 years in the foreign service and three in his current position. US Ambassador to Russia William Burns will be leaving Moscow and has been nominated to take Nick Burns’ position.
A loyal TWN reader sent me this short clip of Ambassador John Bolton‘s appearance on the Jon Stewart Show Tuesday night — and it’s well worth watching.
Romney and Hillary Clinton win in Michigan. . . However, the efforts by all — on both sides of the political aisle — to achieve political definitiveness are being firmly rejected by Americans.
Via ElectoPundit, I just watched this — and I’m stunned that more of us didn’t see what these creative commentators foresaw and posted back in May 2007.
