Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As I expected she would… Today in Rapid City, SD, Hillary Clinton went to bat for Barack Obama in the wake of Bush’s comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports (via Politico).
She told reporters:
President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Barack Obama apparently would rather eat his waffles than answer questions from the traveling press corps:
As Sen. Hillary Clinton was preparing to campaign here today, Sen. Barack Obama was meeting with voters at a diner and apparently pretty hungry.
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” he said, when asked a foreign policy question by a […]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
I feel like I woke up this morning and found boundary lines painted all over the surface of the planet, making it look like a Globe from space. But what if the entire Earth was inhabited by only one species of humans?
Or let’s put it another way. It was presumably okay when all of the […]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The editorial board of the N.Y. Times has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries today, noting that the “early primaries produced two powerful main contenders: Hillary Clinton, the brilliant if at times harsh-sounding senator from New York; and Barack Obama, the incandescent if still undefined senator from Illinois.”
The endorsement takes an interesting look at the […]
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Tom Driscoll
If you want to see the Cold War as chapter behind us (and that is arguable), the Soviet conflict in Afghanistan was the last proxy war in the contest. As the new film “Charlie Wilson’s War” points out, the support for “freedom fighters” in that conflict was ultimately bipartisan in nature. Bipartisan and, in the end, never truly interested in freedom for the Afghan people. With the help of Pakistani intelligence forces and funding from Sunni extremists in the Arab world, we helped the mujahadeen bleed the Soviets pale in their own little version of Vietnam.
In some stark terms we won —the mission was accomplished. The Soviet tanks pulled out and limped home in time for the collapse of “the evil empire.” And the power vacuum left behind in Afghanistan —it would be filled by a strange mutation of those mujahadeen freedom fighters, the Taliban.
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Posted on January 6th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
“Decisions, Decisions.” In this election it seems that many voters can’t make up their minds. They are not alone explains Meredith Chaiken. Chaiken was was Sen. John F. Kerry’s deputy political director in New Hampshire during the 2004 primary and is a senior analyst with the Mellman Group polling and consulting firm.
Chaiken takes a look back at Kerry […]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s been quite a few comparisons of Barack Obama to JFK, I personally haven’t fallen for it and neither has historian Ted Widmer. Just Obama prepares to makes what he hopes will be history in Iowa tonight (with plently of deal making rumors circulating), Widmer explains in the Washington Monthly why he thinks Obama is […]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Justice Department announced today that they were opening ”a full criminal investigation“ into the “destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, putting the politically charged probe in the hands of a mob-busting public corruption prosecutor with a reputation as being independent.”
Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced that he was appointing John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to oversee […]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
John Edwards has staked a claim on withdrawing from Iraq on the eve the Iowa caucus which clearly sets him apart from the two front-runners, Clinton and Obama. Edwards said in an interview on Sunday reported in the N.Y.Times today, that “if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi […]
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Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Hugo Chavez says bad things about our President and he gets branded as some kind of international pariah. We say the same things about the same President and we get lumped into the majority of our fellow citizens who feel that this administration is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state.
For […]
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Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Tom Driscoll
One of the things Benazir Bhutto was arguing for, as she campaigned for the upcoming elections, was a rejection of that false choice between security and freedom. She wanted to see beyond the spectacle of political violence and terrorism. She wanted that for her own people, but just as importantly she wanted the world to see this. She had pledged to confront the violent extremists, not to abide by them and she planned to do this with something much more effective than helicopter gunships or police state repression. She campaigned on the idea that the most effective weapon in the face of terrorism was the clear mandate of legitimate democracy. There are those who argue that her murder is evidence of her mistaken outlook. To my mind, they only take the crime one step further.
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The Obama campaign has been on the defensive in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, thanks to some tacky (to say the least) comments from Obama spokesman David Axelrod. Last night Barack Obama attempted to “vigorously” defend Axelrod during a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39gy7-p8Wsw
As Lynn Sweet reports, the interview didn’t play out to well for […]
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