The John Edwards Affair: Accountability for New & Old Media?

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The Washington Note published several pieces about the details and significance of a potential sexual affair in the middle of the John Edwards presidential primary campaign three times — twice on October 11, 2007 (here and here) and once on October 12, 2007. I wrote about this after reading Sam Stein’s work at Huffington Post….

McCain’s Low Road Antics: Obama as Anti-Christ?

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When I first saw this video put out by the McCain camp, I thought it was an attempt to create a viral Moses spoof of Obama’s uplifting oratory skills. I hadn’t thought it might be an effort to tag Obama as a guy “with two horns and a tail” as Time‘s Amy Sullivan writes.

And if the Guy’s Name Was Steve? Oops, I Mean Abdullah?

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Barack Obama’s campaign just sent me the following clip from Marc Ambinder’s blog: Just Asking… If there were a group of questionable donations all with the name Steve that were funneled through a guy in Jordan who is a Jordanian national who is under investigation for war profiteering and it were Barack Obama instead of…

Birch Bayh: What Leadership Ought to Look Like

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(Senator Birch Bayh and Washington College student Andrew Mehdizadeh) Over the last year, I helped moderate four “Senate Colloquies” along with former Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) at Washington College, a wonderful liberal arts school founded in 1782 in part by George Washington who sat on the school’s Board of Governors.

The View from Your Window

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(photo credit: Matthew Winters) This beautiful pic was taken at sunset from a moving car through the front window in Centreville, Maryland – on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

WRONG. . .WRONG. . .WRONG: Obama Lets Muslim Advisor Resign

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Will anyone notice? Barack Obama’s team just threw its key Muslim advisor under the bus. Barack Obama needs to make a statement loudly, clearly, and with passion that he embraces Muslims as much as any other Americans of Christian, Buddhist, Jewish or other religious persuasions.

Happy Birthday TWN

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(Steve Clemons listening to Gen. Wesley Clark at Yearly Kos 2007 in Chicago) Wow. I was speaking to some students of Shelly Williams of the Osgood Center at Johns Hopkins/SAIS this morning and just recalled that it was the fourth birthday of this blog.