Category: General

These three can fix any bad mood.

This is an interesting little clip of Bill Clinton discussing Richard Nixon with Elvis Costello. When I helped organize a major Nixon Center conference in Washington in April 1995, Bill Clinton keynoted the event — and I could sense his admiration of and intrigue about many aspects of former President Richard Nixon.

Move over Schwarzenegger. Barack Obama works out every day. EVERY DAY. (Damn him!) I get the pool reports of his comings and goings.

John Kerry takes Foreign Relations. Lieberman keeps Homeland Security. . .

I have very mixed feelings about the news that Caroline Kennedy is now seeking appointment to Hillary Clinton’s soon to be vacated Senate seat.

I think it was pretty poor form of a journalist to throw anything and to engage in soft violence against President Bush during his press conference in Iraq.

I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America’s next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I just posted a post that I have taken down. I got punk’d or whatever they call it. Here is a brilliantly written “fictional” transcript — that appeared on Daily Kos — but I thought it was real. Lots of profanity, but you will like it.

I’m down visiting with the ARCA Foundation Board at Musgrove on St. Simon’s Island in Georgia after a couple of harsh travel days. Great ideas being bounced around here on how to help animate better public policy and policy activism. Very impressive people here.

Just after the election, the realization of Governor Palin’s privilege to fulfill Senate vacancies drew gasps from liberal circles. The scenario that played out in the left’s collective fear involved Sarah Palin, who had been banished back to Juneau after losing, appointing herself to Ted Stevens’ seat, should the convicted felon win reelection.