It has been a quite few days here in Iowa. No more phone calls from my new friends John and Joe and Hillary and Barack. No more invitations to dinners, rallies, concerts. No more bright and glossy objects in my mailbox. And, after a final frenzied night. . .silence. I feel so. . .used.
I don’t often link ads, but the language that Huckabee uses in this ad makes it impossible for me to support him. I know many of you probably aren’t surprised by that — but I keep a pretty open mind to various political possibilities across the political spectrum.
OK, I know that’s an odd way to put it, but I spent a lot of time years ago learning the most minor and trivial details about Japanese politics and nearly all of the leading and not so leading politicians in Japan’s National Diet — and that’s how they’d refer to smart people attached to…
Barack Obama has a tailwind — and the excitement about him is building. My friends in both camps are in shock. The Hillary Clinton team — at the worker level — is trying to figure out what the turn-around strategy is.
Quite dramatic scene of desperation and beauty from up north. Slightly larger version here.
The neoconservative movement has been around for a long time — and now with the news that Bill Kristol is going to have a weekly column in the New York Times, it is clear that the influence of this wing of the policy establishment is going to be around a lot longer.
Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina are races that help establish momentum tempered by regional realities. Iowa has given a big boost to Obama — and his advocates are swooning and those on the fence are impressed. But the delegate race has a long way to go.
Just got this from Slate‘s John Dickerson over his “twitter” comments on Facebook: Nashua: Just saw Bill O’Reilly misbehaving at Obama rallly. Shoving Obama staffer. Someone have that staffer call me! If O’Reilly is engaged in assaulting staffers, the world should know. . . — Steve Clemons Update: Lynn Sweet has more.
Andrew Sullivan kindly gave me a friendly nod to mimic his “view from your window” practice at his blog. Today’s winner is a photo of the storm that has hit the Sierra Nevada region in California and Nevada.
Just heard from a friend in New Hampshire listening to Bill Clinton that he was very negative and very defensive — blaming the press for the outcome in Iowa and for ganging up on his wife.
