I caught this snippet tonight of an Australian political/policy blogger, Gary Sauer-Thompson, who was not so taken with the substance of an interview that Sky News Australia did with me — but rather that Sky News was taking bloggers and blogging seriously. I agree with the writer that this is a good thing.
Tomorrow morning, Thursday, I will be on C-Span’s Washington Journal starting at 8 am EST discussing the foreign policy views of John McCain and Barack Obama. Here are the texts of major speeches the candidates gave today. John McCain in Manchester, New Hampshire. Barack Obama in Richmond, Virginia. See you tomorrow morning.
The GOP has spent $150,000 on spiffing up Sarah Palin and her husband. Way to reach “Joe the Plumber”. . . obviously.
THIS EVENT CAN BE WATCHED ON LINE AT THIS LINK. Tonight at Washington’s National Cathedral, I will be helping to introduce a major event — attended by more than 1,200 people — titled “America and the World: Picking Up the Pieces.” The program will start at 7 pm and conclude at 9 pm EST.
This morning, a friend of mine, Marwan Kreidie, has a passionate and smart oped in the Philadelphia Inquirer that challenges the slur that John McCain indirectly embraced when an elder woman at a McCain rally said “I don’t trust Obama. . .He’s an Arab.
Just saw this. Apparently, Schmidt is going to hit the trail for Obama despite his company’s relationship with the McCain campaign and a host of other Republican campaigns across the country. According to a well-placed source, the McCain folks are absolutely livid.
Oakley, Annie, and Buddy send their best.
Powell’s statement on the young American Muslim killed in Iraq is incredibly powerful and poignant. Like me, Powell agrees that this embedded racism and bigotry against Muslims who are American and Muslims abroad has to be reversed.
(This article appears today at Tina Brown’s “The Daily Beast.” Here is the actual link to my piece.) This morning, about a nanosecond after Colin Powell gave his endorsement of Barack Obama for President, I called his long-time aide and former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson.
