He really needs to resolve this Rezko business. It’s hanging around his neck and isn’t going to disappear without some help. Right now, enough questions are being asked that it looks worse and worse. And that’s not going to help Obama’s campaign strategy.
Obama/Rezko: It Comes Down to Judgment
Here’s Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown today in “Time for Obama to come clean: “To dismiss Rezko as ’somebody who I knew’ just isn’t going to cut it”: Most troubling to me is how Obama keeps handling this, a continuing lapse in judgment that leaves me wondering if there’s more here than meets the eye instead [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Rezko
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
I’m with some of the commenters on the blog linked below; I don’t think this is what it seems. The White House didn’t just have a humungous change of heart. There’s something else afoot…
Bush opens up wiretapping docs to House.
Ending “months of resistance,” President bush today “agreed to give House members access to secret documents about its warrantless wiretapping program” in an effort to provide immunity to telecoms: The documents include the president’s authorization of warrantless wiretapping, Justice Department legal opinions going back to 2001, and the requests sent to the telecommunications companies asking [...]
Tags: FISA, Wiretaps
Categories: FISA · National Security
Uncle Sam’s gonna be writing a bunch of checks. You’ll likely get one. Will they help fix the problem? That’s the point of much discussion.
Hill Leaders, White House Strike Deal on Stimulus Package
Congressional leaders and the Bush administration announced Thursday a compromise economic stimulus package built around rebates for most taxpayers and incentives for [...]
Tags: Economy, Tax Rebates
Categories: Economy
CNN’s Candy Crowley has been posting some very entertaining blog entries from the campaign trail. They also provide some fascinating insight into the sometimes off-kilter operations of campaign events.
Cruising Carolina: En route to HRC’s economic speech
For starters this is a big state. Wish you could get points for car mileage. Dashboard panel reads “low tire pressure.” Is this a problem? Hurdle one cleared, we found the site with minimal U-turns. We’re told HRC and entourage has landed. The crowd sits. [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, CNN, Candy Crowley
Categories: 2008 Election · Television
Oh, my. This is gonna send some conservative bloggers into orbit! It’ll be fun to watch, since some have been fighting the global warming battle since day one.
Al Gore: Climate Change ‘Significantly Worse’ Than Feared
Climate change is occurring far more rapidly than even the worst predictions of the UN’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, Al Gore said on Thursday [...]
Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming
Categories: Global Warming/Climate Change
I’m impressed. MSNBC is streaming the debate at www.msnbc.com and the clarity and quality are amazing! I’m watching the debate on my old laptop, over a wireless home network connected to plain old DSL and it looks great! The technology of the future. Go. And watch.
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Rudy fans won’t like this one…
Bye-Bye Rudy: Slips To Third In Florida
Rudy Giuliani has hit the skids in a Florida freefall that could shatter his presidential campaign and leave a two-man Republican contest in the state between John McCain and Mitt Romney, a Miami Herald poll shows. Despite hovering over Florida voters for weeks, Giuliani is tied for third place with [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Rudy Giuliani
Categories: 2008 Election · Giuliani
Seems they’re almost spending it faster than we can print it.
“Charge!”
Hooray, Bush’s credit line just went up again!”Funding for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other activities in the war on terrorism expanded significantly in 2007,” the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released on Wednesday.War funding, which averaged about $93 billion a year from 2003 through 2005, rose to $120 billion in 2006 and $171 billion in 2007 and President George W. [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorists
Categories: Afghanistan · Bush Administration · Iraq War · Terrorism
How far out is this possibility? If it goes to this, we can safely say the 2008 campaign will be one for the record books.
Fred’s Not Dead?
Despite dropping out of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, Fred Thompson could still presumably become the eventual nominee, according to Steven Stark in his article on Real clear Politics, Who Said Freddy’s Dead? “The Republican race is coming [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Fred Thompson
Categories: 2008 Election · Thompson
Good reading for the commercial breaks during tonight’s GOP debate on MSNBC. In fact, it might explain a lot of what we might see (or have seen, depending on where you live and when you read this).
Mitt Romney and the Eddie Haskell Phenomenon
A couple of days before the Republicans’ New Hampshire primary, ABC hosted a debate for the GOP field, during which every candidate on the stage attacked Mitt Romney. Huckabee hit him on Iraq, Thompson hit him on healthcare, Giuliani hit him on immigration, and McCain hit him on everything. Romney wasn’t actually leading in the [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · Romney
Bites the dust.
Kucinich Drops Out Of Presidential Race
Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich is dropping out of the Democratic race for president. Kucinich will make the announcement Friday at a news conference in Cleveland. In an exclusive interview with Plain Dealer editors and reporters, Kucinich said he will explain his “transitioning” tomorrow. Kucinich said [...]
Tags: Kucinich
Categories: Kucinich
Wow! This is spectacular! Kudos to Andrew Sullivan for passing it along. Really, take a moment and look.
Bic Art
Artist Juan Francisco Casas uses a bic pen to create stunning, photo-realistic drawings.Think Chuck Close meets that kid in high school always doodling on his notebooks. Casa’s work is currently up at the Galeria Fernando Pradilla in Madrid. More images [...]
Tags: Bic Art, Juan Francisco Casas
Categories: Uncategorized
Actually, for some of you, TGIF is already here! Let’s all celebrate. It’s been another long, exhausting, week. I’m tired of the cold. I’m tired of schedules that allow for little (or no) downtime. I’m tired of paying through the nose for everything - food, gas, electricity - with no relief in sight. It feels, at times, like an endless uphill battle. Maybe it’s politics that’s wearing on me - the endless pace of a lengthy campaign that demands I pay attention, no matter the lateness of the hour. I think I need an island somewhere, with no TV, no radio, no newspapers. But, then, how would I find out about fascinating stories, like this one. I have to point out that my father-in-law, a career military man, saw this coming in the early years of the Iraq War, before he passed away. We talked about it often. He was way ahead of events.
Retention crisis in the military
Andrew Tilghman, fast becoming my favorite long-form journalist, has another fantastic, must-read piece in the Washington Monthly. It focuses on why the military’s “best and brightest young officers” are leaving at an alarming rate (and yes, Iraq is part of it, but not the only part), and what the implications are of this exodus. Tilghman is [...]
Tags: Military Retention
Categories: Military
But, it looks like Huckabee scraped up the coin for a bunch of robo-calls. And, we do mean a BUNCH!
Huck Lovin’ Push Pollers to Hit Florida with 2.5 Million Calls
And … into Florida. The Mike Huckabee-supporting push poll group Common Sense Issues has stormed further south. The group’s executive director Patrick Davis tells me that they planned to call “over 2.5 million homes” in Florida before the weekend. They’ll also be calling “close to 200,000″ homes in Missouri in [...]
Tags: Huckabee, Robo Calls
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
