(photo credit: Will Bower) Last night, I could not attend a happy hour gathering of friends of mine at the Mayflower Hotel’s Town & Country Bar as I was participating in a Center for New America Security dinner with Iran specialist Vali Nasr and nuclear arms expert Ashton Carter.
Have any of them been to Cuba? For a few hours, it seemed that only Barack Obama’s passport files had been breached. Now we know that both John McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s passport information have also been breached.
Zbigniew Brzezinski just engaged in a high-sizzle, must watch exchange on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning with Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson and his daughter — Mika Brzezinski.
Bill Richardson has now endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential bid. I guess the evening with President Bill Clinton watching a hockey match didn’t do enough to twin over the interest of the New Mexico governor. Of the presidential candidates, Senator Chris Dodd endorsed Obama first. Joe Biden and John Edwards remain uncommitted.
Avaaz is essentially the global version of MoveOn.org — and in the short year or so that its organizers and constituents have been kicking up the spotlight on international problems, they have accomplished much. I’m particularly supportive of Avaaz’s efforts on a Gaza ceasefire.
Doug Bandow has a hard-hitting critique of John McCain over at AntiWar.com. McCain opponents will find it one of the best compilations of tightly wound reasons to agitate against John McCain getting the keys to the White House and the codes to the “football.
(Richard Vague and blogger/historian Juan Cole) This is a guest post by Richard Vague, a moderate Republican who served as co-Founder and CEO of First USA Bank. Vague is the author of Terrorism: A Brief for Americans.
A 20-year old gay Iranian, Mehdi Kazemi, who had been studying in the UK suffered the loss of a boyfriend who was hanged in Iran for his homosexuality. He asked for asylum in the UK and was denied. He then fled to the Netherlands, and Dutch courts also rejected his plea.
I recently enjoyed a BloggingHeads discussion, or what Non Zero author and BloggingHeads creator Robert Wright calls a “diavlog”, with Juan Cole. This morning’s New York Times oped page picked up a five minute clip of my discussion with Juan Cole.
I just saw No Country for Old Men. Perhaps Hillary and Obama should flip a coin? She now leads him in a new Gallup poll — and McCain polls at the moment beating either Clinton or Obama, though the lead McCain has over Clinton is statistically insignificant.