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Read this exchange between Andrew Bacevich and Bill Moyers: BILL MOYERS: I was in the White House, back in the early 60s, and I’ve been a White House watcher ever since. And I have never come across a more distilled essence of the evolution of the presidency than in just one paragraph in your book. [...]
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From Mark Royden Winchell‘s William F. Buckley Jr. — this passage comes just after a discussion of Buckley’s support for the hiring of more black teachers: Perhaps Buckley’s most extreme please for racial preference came in a January 13, 1970 article in Look in which he argued for the election of a Negro president “in [...]
I didn’t know that Andrew Bacevich was on Bill Moyers Journal last week. Fortunately, you can see it on the web. I hardly ever watch him, but Bill Moyers is one of the few TV interviewers worth checking out.
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Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden’s call for $1 billion in aid to Georgia for reconstruction dodges the question of reconstruction of what and where. As most of the fighting was in South Ossetia, which almost certainly will wind up as part of Russia, it is not likely that the money will go there. And is $1 [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
The conservative movement is lying prostrate before John McCain, a position they’ll be in more frequently if he wins the election. Today they are begging him not to choose Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman as his running-mate because they are both pro-choice. The latter is also a Democrat. David Limbaugh is typical: The prospect of [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Courts, Election
With so many journalists–and now the Obama campaign–emphasizing McCain’s reported five-million-dollar gaffe at the Saddleback forum, people have ignored the somewhat stranger part of the presidential wannabe’s reply, when he implicitly told Americans that he wanted to make them all miserable. “Some of the richest people I have known in my life are the most [...]
Filed under: Economics, Uncategorized
And I’m referring to this and not that Georgia and to whether the war in the Caucus is going to help McCain or Obama in November 2008. Columnist William Pfaff suggests that the Russians believe that Saakashvili “was forced to start this war by Dick Cheney to support the campaign of John McCain. The only [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy
“Are you telling me tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaeda?” … “These are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything” — Sen. Patrick Leahy, then-ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 2006, on the news that telecom companies had handed domestic phone records over to the government [...]
From the Dallas Morning News on Sunday, regarding the Obama-McCain Come to Warren confab (emphasis mine): Richard Land, who heads the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that although Christian conservatives are lukewarm about Mr. McCain, most will vote for him in November because they find Mr. Obama unacceptable. “I’ll take a [...]
Filed under: Election
Senator Joe Biden is the kind of vice presidential possibility that D.C. insiders and the big media love, but who would be worse than useless on the campaign trail. Yes, he has experience. But nobody in purple America knows that Biden has experience, because they don’t know who Biden is. All they see is a [...]