Category: General

. . .and we haven’t even launched another war.

I have yet to see a public comment from either Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or President Bush about the murder of U.S. AID official John Granville in Sudan. US Agency for International Development Henrietta Fore did release this statement — but Granville’s death deserves more extensive attention from our leaders.

I keep bumping into friends from Washington and elsewhere out here in Nevada and Lake Tahoe, California — most recently Stephen Rose who thinks that the middle class in America is not as bad off as many argue. I’ll be back in DC tonight.

Most know that Zbigniew Brzezinski is endorsing Barack Obama for the presidency. The Washington Note was one of the first to report his announcement.

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Just drove down 395 South in Nevada from Reno to Carson City. There was only one political billboard up — and that was Ron Paul telling Nevadans he would secure the borders.

Just a week ago it seemed that Mitt Romney was on the verge of being swept away here in Iowa by Huckamania and, with McCain coming on strong in New Hampshire, from there on to political oblivion. And in a few short days it still may happen.

I think Chris Bowers at Open Left just has a terrific, no-nonsense read on where the Democratic and Republican contenders stand in Iowa. He then runs through what various scenarios in Iowa mean for New Hampshire and then nationally.

The other day, I mentioned Bloomberg’s increasing fascination with running for President. According to an inside Bloomberg source, the “environment is not yet right” to commit to a run, but “he’s working through the details of a possible strategy.

The “One Campaign” has put together a cool compilation of video commentary from every single one of the presidential candidates on “their plans to combat extreme poverty and global disease.” I have watched six or seven of the clips — and I think the template they used for this is impressive.