By Steve Clemons

There are many including this writer who have been documenting the internal decision-making divisions inside President Bush’s White House.

Joe Wilson is off in Nevada campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Joe and I think similarly on many national security issues — and we have like-minded disdain for what Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, John Bolton and others have done to America’s global position.

I’m not in a place to judge the veracity of Dan Rather’s reporting on Bush’s National Guard service, but as usual, Sidney Blumenthal has done an extraordinary job sequencing the bits and pieces of the Rather CBS story and suggests that Rather’s $70 million lawsuit against CBS will animate some much needed truth-telling about Bush’s…

A lot of folks out there think I’m a sucker for good email notes — or very effective, personalized fundraising appeals like Hillary Clinton’s invitation to all of us (including me) to possibly have lunch with her, after she picked up the groceries and with her husband dropping by to say hello.

In the internal White House battles over the Geneva conventions, enemy combatant policies, extraordinary rendition, and torture — which have been viciously waged between various Bush administration officials against other colleagues in the same White House — there are a few heroes who fought the “darkness at noon” solutions advocated by Vice President Cheney’s team….

The Clinton Global Initiative is the largest global telethon for good causes the world has yet witnessed.

. . .in ten minutes at 10:30 pm on Mike Malloy’s show. Sam Seder is standing in and hosting tonight for Mike Malloy — and we are going to discuss my recent Salon.com article on Iran.

I’m so worried about this country and the world in general. I know many of you are as well, and I’m sure than many have felt like I do now in the past. I’ve always been fascinated by the authors of the “lost generation” like Thomas Wolfe.

Of course it was! But it’s nice to hear an honest assessment from Greenspan.

For those TWN readers in the area — and I just met two — I will be at the Starbucks in Westwood, California for the next few hours. It’s a great, sunny day here. Jodie Foster’s The Brave One is playing at one of Westwood’s posh old line movie houses next door.