I don’t often link ads, but the language that Huckabee uses in this ad makes it impossible for me to support him. I know many of you probably aren’t surprised by that — but I keep a pretty open mind to various political possibilities across the political spectrum.
OK, I know that’s an odd way to put it, but I spent a lot of time years ago learning the most minor and trivial details about Japanese politics and nearly all of the leading and not so leading politicians in Japan’s National Diet — and that’s how they’d refer to smart people attached to…
Barack Obama has a tailwind — and the excitement about him is building. My friends in both camps are in shock. The Hillary Clinton team — at the worker level — is trying to figure out what the turn-around strategy is.
Quite dramatic scene of desperation and beauty from up north. Slightly larger version here.
The neoconservative movement has been around for a long time — and now with the news that Bill Kristol is going to have a weekly column in the New York Times, it is clear that the influence of this wing of the policy establishment is going to be around a lot longer.
Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina are races that help establish momentum tempered by regional realities. Iowa has given a big boost to Obama — and his advocates are swooning and those on the fence are impressed. But the delegate race has a long way to go.
Just got this from Slate‘s John Dickerson over his “twitter” comments on Facebook: Nashua: Just saw Bill O’Reilly misbehaving at Obama rallly. Shoving Obama staffer. Someone have that staffer call me! If O’Reilly is engaged in assaulting staffers, the world should know. . . — Steve Clemons Update: Lynn Sweet has more.
Andrew Sullivan kindly gave me a friendly nod to mimic his “view from your window” practice at his blog. Today’s winner is a photo of the storm that has hit the Sierra Nevada region in California and Nevada.
Just heard from a friend in New Hampshire listening to Bill Clinton that he was very negative and very defensive — blaming the press for the outcome in Iowa and for ganging up on his wife.
