Hot damn! I am very excited today. A book, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy that I was very involved in helping to hatch made it to Michiko Kakutani’s top 10 list for books from 2008.
This is Annie, Oakley’s little sister, at a thoughtful moment.
I got married to my partner of 17 years in San Francisco on August 18th of this year. We did so under the beautiful dome of San Francisco’s magnificent City Hall — and I had my picture taken (above) with Harvey Milk’s statue.
Turkey’s unique position as a NATO member and a Middle Eastern, Muslim nation with close ties to Iran would seem to make the country an ideal candidate to help solve the simmering conflict surrounding the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear energy program.
There is great tragedy unfolding now in the middle of Mumbai. More than 900 wounded and more than 80 dead. Gunmen are holding fort in the Oberoi Hotel and the Taj Hotel — which are the two hotels I stayed at during recent trips to Mumbai.
Bob Gates is keeping his Pentagon perch (which has been quite clear for some time). I had moved close to the view that Gates should go. My thinking at the time was that Gates played a vital role “Out-Cheneying Cheney” in the last couple of years of G.W.
Recently, Politico issued a roster of top policy and political hands who would be in line for key positions in an Obama government. At the time, I thought it very odd that Clinton Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross was not on the list.
Over the weekend, Andy Revkin posted a very smart memo to the President-Elect from a group of “specialists on climate, energy, and technology policy,” who have decided to write under the nom de plume “Justinian” reveal their identities in a few weeks.
A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note that in July 2008, the McCain and Obama camps began to work secretly behind the scenes to assemble large rosters of potential personnel for the administration that only one of the candidates would lead.
This is the segment I did last night on Countdown with David Shuster standing in for Keith Olbermann. I’m back in the U.S. and can report that enthusiasm for Barack Obama throughout Europe is off the charts.
