I thought that the idea of a 30 minute infomercial on Barack Obama’s approach to policy and life had more downside than upside. I think I was right overall — but Obama’s performance and the package as a whole hit the target — and despite the risk — they will get more upside from this….
This is a surprisingly moving and interesting video featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Justin Timberlake, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Zach Braff, Colin Farrell, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Shia LeBeouf, Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, and Jason Segal.
Sunday’s strike of a compound in Syria by American Special Forces, purported to have killed important Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) smuggler Abu Ghadiya will have broad strategic consequences for America and the Middle East as a whole.
When I find myself nodding in agreement with about 75% of what Jorge Mas Santos, the Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, is saying in a critique of George W. Bush’s wrong-headed US-Cuba policy, I know the world is changing and sense that South Florida politics may be undergoing a sea change.
I have just spent the last 30 minutes kicking around these new country page profiles on Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Morocco. Shadi Hamid of the Project on Middle East Democracy has assembled these portals, which I think are quite good. More later.
Tonight. . .7:15 pm EST. . .(which is Wednesday morning Sydney time), I’ll be talking with the best morning radio talk show host in Sydney, Australia — Deborah Cameron. I do this every Tuesday night DC time. The show streams here.
I’m in Oklahoma today — returning to D.C. on Monday. I paid $2.11 a gallon for gas in Bartlesville in fact. It was $2.36 in Centreville, Maryland on Saturday — and $2.94 in D.C. I just received this extensive profile by the New Yorker‘s Connie Bruck on Senator Chuck Hagel.
John McCain is said to be extremely “eaten up” that he allowed party advisers to push him to appeal to the base of the Republican Party and choose Sarah Palin over his preferred choice, Joseph Lieberman.
I can’t validate this and probably won’t try for the time being. But I will report a reasonably high quality rumor that reached me from a high quality source.
