Dick Cheney has apparently been on a magical mystery media tour.
He has sought out and been interviewed by more TV journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president.
The topic is always the same. Torture was done during the Bush-Cheney Administration, and it was effective. Persons [...]
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Condoleezza Rice “would make a great middle school social studies teacher,” according to the late Don Askew, a retired Green Beret colonel and Middle East advisor to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
“Incompetent” was about the kindest thing I ever heard him say about Rice and her boss over the mess they made in Iraq.
My [...]
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Filed under: Berry Craig, Bush Admin, George W. Bush, In The News, International, Iraq, Opinions, Politics, Republicans, War
President Barack Obama will take to the podium in a little over an hour to deliver his first State of the Union Address. The big pre-SOTU story tonight is this one from AP News:
“Officials: Most troops out of Iraq in 18 months“:
AP reports that the Obama administrations’s withdrawal plan, which should be released early this week, ”calls [...]
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Want another reason not to watch Fox News? And another reason not to take it seriously?
It has hired Judy Miller as an analyst.
That would be Judith Miller, former New York Times reporter, Scooter Libby buddy, Ahmed Chalabi confidante, and Iraq War cheerleader. As the WaPo’s Howard Kurtz puts it, nicely, “she is nothing if not [...]
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Filed under: Fox News, Michael Stickings, N.Y. Times, News Media
On Saturday, Democrats reached agreement on the Party platform and “shaped a set of principles“ that commits the Democratic Party to “guaranteed health care for all.” The agreed position on health care falls closer to the position Hillary Clinton held in the primaries, than that of Barack Obama.
Advisers to Obama and Clinton both told the party’s [...]
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Filed under: CNN, DNC, Democrats, Election '08, Healthcare, In The News, Iraq, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Presidential Election, Progressives, Sexism, Women's Issues
From MSNBC:
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with U.S. forces in Kuwait and then Afghanistan — the scene of a war he says deserves more attention and more troops[...] “I’m more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking, and I think it’s very [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Election '08, Foreign Policy, General Election, International, Iraq, MSNBC, Military, Political News, Presidential Election, Senate, Stuart O'Neill
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Everybody should read Tony Karon’s blog, Rootless Cosmopolitan , as a general rule. But I want to point out one item:
“Converted to Catholicism, ‘e did. And now he’s out to save the world . The problem with the idea of a global conversation between Muslims and Christians refereed by Tony [...]
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The Clinton campaign told CNN that “6,000 people signed up on the New York senator’s Web site to attend the speech.” Here we go…
I couldn’t get the sound to work on HillaryClinton.com, so I missed the beginning of Hillary’s speech. Watching on C-Span now:
“I ask all of you to join me in working as hard [...]
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Filed under: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, Women's Issues
Bill Clinton said Sunday, “I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running..” Well, just when you thought the Clinton bashing couldn’t go any lower… Joan Walsh explains (emphasis mine) on Salon:
The world is divided between people who consider Bill and Hillary Clinton monsters, and people who don’t. It used to be [...]
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Filed under: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
Good gracious… American capitalism is set to invade Baghdad, Disneyland-Style:
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