Really interesting debate. I had a lot of thoughts, which I’ve got logged below. But Joe Biden showed what a steady, thoughtful, capable pro he is. And while Palin didn’t have any of the disasters she has had in her recent interviews, she came off as an impressive amateur.
Gwen Ifill starts. The candidates are all smiles and first names. . . First question to Joe Biden.
TWN contributor Brian Till may be ‘on the ground in St. Louis‘, but I’m at a bar in Vienna, Austria — and am planning to stay up until 3 am here (I know. . .the 3 am call. . .
Washington University has had a tremendous run of luck landing political debates. It played host in ’92, ’00, ’04, and is welcoming Governor Palin and Senator Biden here tonight. It’d be great if some sleuthing undergrad managed to figure out how.
A loyal TWN reader just caught this clip on MSNBC’s “Race for the White House with David Gregory,” The clip is with former Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.
Deeply embedded in the core of the American economy are automobile economics and automobile culture. Showroom visits by potential buyers are down 50% this month as compared to last year, and sales of new automobiles by General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and other dealers are down by 33% on average when compared to last year.
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of last Friday’s presidential debate was that neither candidate proposed a bold, new way of thinking about foreign policy that cuts through the crisis-driven, incremental approach that has characterized the United States’ national security posture since the end of the Cold War.
I wonder what George W. Bush really, really, really thinks about Sarah Palin. . .I can’t imagine Laura Bush thinking much of her, but that’s my own speculation.
Mike Bloomberg has served city and country well over the past seven years.
The question of how and when the United States should promote democracy abroad rose to the forefront of our nation’s foreign policy discourse following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and reached its apex in President Bush’s Second Inaugural Address.
