Jim Lobe has a great profile piece on the movement of neoconservative sympathies in the Republican race and notes that a number of neocons and their chief pugnacious nationalist ally John Bolton have moved to support John McCain.
Since the polls closed on Super Tuesday, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have raked in huge amounts of campaign dollars. Clinton campaign internet director Peter Daou has reported that Hillary has brought in $10 million from more than 100,000 donors — and ALL of this online.
Yesterday, I saved these turkeys from near tragedy as they were trying to cross Highway 213 near Chestertown, Maryland. I’ve seen a lot of wild turkeys in Maryland and Colorado — but few of them looked as plump and, well, like the turkeys we used to draw in elementary school around Thanksgiving time.
Various delegate count analysts are showing that Obama made some gains in diminishing the gap between himself and delegate leader Hillary Clinton. Matt Stoller writes that on a net basis, Obama may have added 45 net delegates more than HIllary Clinton did yesterday.
Barack Obama owned last night — and he’ll own the rest of the month for the most part until he runs up against the contests in early March in Rhode Island, Texas and Ohio. Despite Obama’s impressive sweep of Nebraska, Washington and Louisiana yesterday, the delegate count remains at near parity between them.
MSNBC’s David Shuster is in some hot water for comments he made about Chelsea Clinton. They were inapproporiate. He knows it and has apologized. But this raises the issue of the flame-outs we are seeing in many quarters of this presidential race.
From Chris Nelson’s insider daily political essay, The Nelson Report: . . .Romney today disgraced himself and his party by charging that a Democratic victory in the presidential race will turn America over to the terrorists. As we said, a new abyss. . .
The Clinton campaign has now announced that it has raised a staggering $7.5 million since Super Tuesday. Add this to the announcement from the Obama campaign that it has raised $7.2 million since Tuesday as well. The Republicans must be freaking out. These are huge dollars.
Despite Gov. Romney’s departure from the Republican field, the excitement over the primaries is unlikely to dissipate anytime soon. But in the next month, there are a number of elections around the world that will have significant bearing on the U.S. strategic landscape, and perhaps the candidates’ foreign policy positioning.
I have gotten in trouble in the past for the insensitive and apparently now-politically incorrect use of such aphorisms as “off the reservation” and “going native” — both of which have drawn complaints from some well-meaning watchdogs who heard me use those terms on radio interviews.
