(Credit: Jonathan Guyer) Jonathan Guyer is a Program Associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. Two weeks ago, Jordanian King Abdullah’s visit to the White House brought President Obama’s announcement that the Egyptian, Israeli, and Palestinian premiers would make field trips to Washington.
Among other firsts, President Obama is undoubtedly our first “New Media” president. The Obama team came into power through its revolutionary internet fundraising success and clearly intends to find new ways to use the internet to advance its agenda.
In the last week and a half, we spent time in the Gulf region, speaking at a conference in Doha, Qatar and then a few days ago spoke about global economic issues in Berlin. So that checks off the Gulf and Germany in the roster of leading surplus accounts in the international economy.
Recently at a Congressional Quarterly breakfast, Political Wire blogger Taegan Goddard said that Barack Obama excels at keeping his political opposition wobbly and off balance. Goddard is right – and Barack Obama has just pulled off another blow to the Republican party’s steadiness. Obama has just chosen Jon Huntsman Jr.
Folks, I am traveling today and without my principal computer. I have learned that no one has been able to post comments over the last 21 hours.
Tom Kutsch is a Program Associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington on Monday represents the Obama administration’s first opportunity to implement a new American strategy for achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Don’t expect seriousness in this post. I was just chuckling when I got an email moments ago from the Council on Foreign Relations announcing the shortlist for the 2009 Arthur Ross Book Award.
When I first saw how the Obama campaign team was taking the Joe Trippi-fashioned IT architecture of political outreach a few notches higher, I was really pleased.
Steve Clemons is on the road today, but is really fascinated by the important new book by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.
This morning, I did my second ever stint on “The Seed Show,” a progressive radio program that runs between 8 and 9 am EST and anchored by South Carolina lawyer and political activist Tom Turnipseed.
