(April 1, 2008 – Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America) Over the years, this blog has expressed admiration for some of the principled issues that John McCain stood by when his Republican Party was off course. He was gay friendly then and had lots of gay staffers in his campaign.
Yesterday evening, I watched Glenn Beck’s ‘defamercial‘ on George Soros. There is already much commentary out there — Michael Tomasky’s being among the best — that knocks back the slime, slurs, and defamation of Soros by Fox and Beck. I encourage you to watch the show, if one can call it that.
Harvard University’s big think realist and Foreign Policy blogger Stephen Walt has published a brilliant take-down of George W. Bush’s just-released-today memoir, Decision Points.
I just caught AFP correspondent Stephen Collinson’s pool report from India as President Obama wraps up his trip there. Here is the full, short report. . .but catch the last line on Air Force One taxiing off into the smog. Pool Report # 1, Nov, 9 — New Delhi Motorcade rolled at 8.
(click image for larger version) I am up north of New York City today where it’s rainy, windy, and beautiful. Thanks to the hospitality of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, I’ll be staying at the Pocantico Conference Center which is the former coach and horse barn for Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.
I don’t care what he says and don’t care what the analysts think, my hunch is that Jeb Bush may be lurking way behind in the shadows preparing to run in 2012 — and that could be a very tough race for President Obama. And even if he doesn’t then, he’s only 63 in 2016….
On Wednesday evening, Obama confidente and White House Senior Advisor for Public Outreach Valerie Jarrett held a conference call with progressives around the country who may have been disheartened by Tuesday’s election results.
Steven Clemons: Can it really be possible that every single issue I care about — from DADT, to jobs and infrastructure, to smarter foreign policy strategy, Iran, China, Afghanistan War, Israel/Palestine, Cuba, Syria, energy-led innovation projects, climate, the broader Middle East, to global economic rebalancing, to global institutional reform, the START Treaty, Law of the…
President Obama’s team — heck, even Hillary Clinton’s presidential team — saw former President Bill Clinton as a problem, as unpredictable, as off his game and a potential major liability.
It’s 1:40 am, and I have just finished election night. The Republicans have gained 60 more seats than they last had in the House of Representatives and six in the US Senate. A new era has begun. John Boehner and Eric Cantor have gone from eccentric fringe to near monarchs over night.
