Category: General

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I just did a video log of my reactions to President Bush’s speech last night and will post in a bit — but my quick bullet point response to the evening included these items: 1. This was Bush’s least memorable speech because it may have been his least stridently partisan. 2.

I haven’t seen President Bush’s speech yet — just highlights — though about to watch it tonight. Wolf Blitzer, though, just said that Bush revisits the theme of the “axis of evil” tonight. Mistake.

According to Andrew Malcolm, Rudy Giuliani dropped a hint that he might drop out of the race — and then bounced back to say he’d win Florida. Dems will miss Guiliani I think. He was the best hope that they had of a relatively easy win in November.

This evening, in about 20 minutes, I’ll be chatting with Terrence McNally on KPFK Pacifica Radio’s Free Forum with Terrence McNally. I’ll be up between 8:20 and 8:30 PM EST. Sorry for the late notice. Just before me, Tom Hayden — who endorsed Obama today — will be talking about the elections.

The State of the Union address is a stuffy affair to watch — unless one is lucky enough to be sitting in the gallery (which I did one year when Bill Clinton was President).

State of the Union Excerpts — 28 January 2008 President George W. Bush — The White House As Prepared for Delivery “The actions of the 110th Congress will affect the security and prosperity of our Nation long after this session has ended.

I went off of my computer for just a day and a half while up in Montreal — and tons of stuff breaks, including Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama. This is quite significant but for reasons that may not seem as obvious as the press is promoting.

Mark Goldberg and I had a chat about the Law of the Sea Convention and treaty politics in general over at Bloggingheads. There are lots of moving parts right now regarding the Law of the Sea, some of which I hope to report on later.

photo illustration by Kevin Van Aelst; reprinted with permission from the New York Times My New America Foundation colleague Parag Khanna has a vital article out today in the New York Times Magazine titled “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony.