John McCain got right on the edge of class warfare language along the lines that his pal (though resigned from the campaign) and potential Treasury Secretary Phil Gramm did when the former Texas Senator accused Americans of being a “nation of whiners“.
The day after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation from his office under threat of impeachment earlier this week, I chaired a discussion with Pakistan Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani.
There has been movement between the Obama campaign and General Wesley Clark’s team on the issue of his playing some kind of role at the Democratic National Convention. The Obama campaign did reach out to Clark in the last several days to try and find some accommodation.
Stream videos at Ustream Today, I am hosting two events at the New America Foundation which will stream live here at The Washington Note.
The Obama campaign needs to reverse course and reach out to General Wesley Clark who is the No. 1 most requested surrogate by Democratic Party fundraisers. He is a thoughtful, top tier, command experienced strategist. He once told me that we need to organize an “Urgent Action Climate Change Task Force.
I have to admit, news of this trip concerns me. I still think Joe Biden got the swing after Bayh was passed over last Friday — but if this news is true that Obama may be going to Indiana on Saturday, then something may be up.
I’m up in Dearborn, Michigan tonight — about to go on a show with James Zogby at the Arab American National Museum — and got the news that my shared hotel room in Denver is now not available.
In their article “Wrong on Russia” published today in The National Interest, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett follow a thread I began yesterday on US strategy towards Georgia.
Today, I will be flying up to Dearborn, Michigan and back to meet representatives of the Arab American community and to tape a show on James Zogby’s Viewpoint on public attitudes toward Arab Americans. Barack Obama recently launched a new part of his website dedicated to the interests of Arab Americans — which I applaud….
This is a guest post by Johanna Mendelson Forman. Forman is Senior Associate in the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Speaking for myself, I will never forget the day that Sergio Vieira de Mello was murdered along with other colleagues at the UN offices in Baghdad, Iraq.
