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Barack Obama on Bringing the Country Together 2007-08-15 20:51:11 Barack Obama
was interviewed by The Washington Post and discussed how, in contrast to some of the other Democratic candidates, he can unite the country:
Drawing a sharp contrast with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama said in an interview that he has the capacity she may lack to unify the country and move it out of what he called “ideological gridlock.”
“I think it is fair to say that I believe I can bring the country together more effectively than she can,” Obama said. “I will add, by the way, that is not entirely a problem of her making. Some of those battles in the ’90s that she went through were the result of some pretty unfair attacks on the Clintons. But that history exists, and so, yes, I believe I can bring the country together in a way she cannot do. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t be running.”
There have been a number of unfavorable responses to Ob Read more:Barack
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Hugo Chávez Ends Term Limits and Increases Power to Guarantee “Happiness” 2007-08-15 16:39:12 Normally I’m not sure how much term limits really help, but perhaps one limit which is necessary is the one on the president. I feared that term limits would be insufficient to protect Venezuela from the abuses of power being seen under Hugo Chávez but we’ll never see if they would have made a difference. The New York Times reports that Chávez is announcing changes to the Constitution which would “allow him to be re-elected indefinitely, a move that would enhance his authority to accelerate a socialist-inspired transformation of Venezuelan society.”
To justify this change, the aim is being said, “to guarantee to the people the largest amount of happiness possible.” To paraphrase Orwell, some people will be happier than others.
The changes would also further centralize control of government under Chávez and weaken the power of regional government. He has already made a number of changes. “He has nationalized telecommunications, electricity an Read more:Limits
Astrology, Enemy of Reason 2007-08-15 00:36:09
The first part of the Richard Dawkins’ documentary, The Enemies of Reason
, has aired on the BBC. The above clip discusses Astrology
.
The Guardian’s Charlie Brooker, who rarely has good things to say about television, recommends the show:
In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the Middle Ages toward a modern age of science, reason and democracy. It changed everything. If it wasn’t for the Enlightenment, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. You’d be standing in a smock throwing turnips at a witch. Yes, the Enlightenment was one of the most significant developments since the wheel. Which is why we’re trying to bollocks it all up.
Welcome to a dangerous new era - the Unlightenment - in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They’re everywhere - reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychi Read more:Enemy
Journalists First Debunk Republican Attack on Obama, and Now Debunk Attack on Kerry 2007-08-14 20:36:05 Duck if you don’t want to be hit by the flying pigs today. Has the resignation of Karl Rove suddenly returned political coverage to reality? First
we had AP debunk the right wing smears on Barack Obama
. Now The Swamp reports on how John McCain attacked John Kerry
by misquoting Kerry’s position on the war. Maybe the media has really learned that reporting the news does not meaning repeating every untrue statement from the right without fact checking. After quoting an interview with John McCain they write:
McCain was talking of course about Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.,) the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. If you give McCain the benefit of the doubt, he misremembered Kerry’s position. If you’re more cynical, he intentionally misstated Kerry’s position to make his own support of Bush more palatable.
Either way, it was odd coming in an interview where McCain sought to align himself on the side of character.
From there they quote John Kerry’s actual p Read more:Republican
Media Breaks Pattern and Reports Obama Was Right Instead of Right Wing Smears 2007-08-14 19:11:38
Conservatives remain consistent in their strategy of how to handle being consistently wrong. When they have no counter arguments to what a Democratic politician has actually said they make up something different to attack. We saw that with the attacks on John Kerry when they twisted the words “global test” and when they claimed his joke about George Bush getting stuck in Iraq was about the troops. Today they tried the same type of attack once again on Barack Obama
.
Usually when the right wing launches their smears, the news media will quote the conservative smear, regardless of whether it has any validity, and try to pass this off as objectivity.This time, instead of repeating the right wing smears as news, somebody at AP actually did her job and acted like a real journalist.
Earlier today Barack Obama said:
We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is Read more:Instead
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Hillary’s Secrets 2007-08-14 15:04:50 Hillary Clinton boasts about her expertise in health care, but won’t reveal the deails of her health care plan. Clinton uses her experience as first lady as a reason to vote for her, but now there is controversy over her records being sealed. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.
Clinton’s calendars, appointment logs and memos are stored at her husband’s presidential library, in the custody of federal archivists who do not expect them to be released until after the 2008 presidential election.
A trove of records has been made public detailing the Clinton White House’s attempts to remake the nation’s healthcare system, following a request from Bill Clinton that those materials be released first. Hillary Cl Read more:Hillary
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The Ideas of Obama vs. Edwards on Poverty 2007-08-14 01:51:16
Libertarian Democrat writer Terry Michael made an excellent argument in favor of his first choice, Barack Obama
, over John Edwards
. His arguments regarding the problems with Edwards’ economic populism should also be of interest to supporters of some of the other candidates.
Michael reviewed some of the reactions to Edwards’ policies, agreeing with me The Onion best summed up the problems. Michael was impressed that “a low budget satirical tabloid knows a political huckster when it sees one.” His article concludes:
If Democrats are loony enough to buy the reactionary left-liberal, complete-the-New-Deal, wealth re-distributionist economics that Edwards is hustling, we (I’m a libertarian Democrat) risk blowing a nearly sure thing in 2008.
The middle class in this country is not falling behind. It is suffering from the psychological turmoil of “The Age of Abundance,” as Brink Lindsey describes it so well in his recent book. America’s wor Read more:Poverty
The Rove Presidency and Realignment 2007-08-14 01:28:44
The resignation of Karl Rove has been widely discussed with similar topics coming up repeatedly. These include the ultimate failure of Rove’s policy of division and his ongoing legal problems as his conduct in office is investigated. No matter what you think of the Bush administration, there is one characteristic which both supporters and detractors might agree on. They thought big. Their policies may have been failures, but they sure were big failures. Bush went from speaking out against nation building in the 2000 campaign to seeking to change the entire middle east. The Bush administration didn’t attempt to just whittle away at a bit of what they saw as the welfare state. Their policies were designed to ultimately destroy Social Security and Medicare.
Karl Rove also thought big in the area of politics. In an article in The Atlantic, Joshua Green described how Karl Rove wanted to do more than simply getting out the far right to win narrow elections. He had a bigger goal Read more:Presidency
China Regulates Reincarnation 2007-08-14 00:53:09 Even for a totalitarian country such as China
which has no respect for separation of church and state on first reading this one sounds really wierd.
In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.”
It turns out that there is a political motivation here:
But beyond the irony lies China’s true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region’s Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, Read more:Reincarnation
Tax and Spend Republicans 2007-08-14 00:42:25 Cato-at-Liberty reports that George Bush is the biggest taxer in the history of the world:
The Treasury Department reported Friday that federal revenues reached $2.12 trillion ($2,120,000,000,0000) for the first ten months of fiscal year 2007. In both current and inflation-adjusted dollars, that puts the federal government on course for the most revenue it’s ever collected in a year. Indeed, it’s the most revenue any government in the history of the world has ever collected. And yet it’s not enough to satisfy the voracious appetites of the spenders in Congress and the administration. Spending was $2.27 trillion for the same ten months.
It seems that the deficit problem in Washington is not a result of insufficient tax revenue but rather the inexorable growth of spending on everything from earmarks to entitlements to war.
To be sure, the U.S. economy is the largest national economy in history, and that’s the main reason for record tax levels. And tax revenues are not at their Read more:Republicans
The Cover Boys and Wine Drinkers 2007-08-13 19:29:40
Barack Obama has made the cover of GQ–the first time a politician has made the cover since Clinton and Gore were on the cover in November 1992. Among the topics of the article is how Obama appeals more to college-educated wine-sipping Democrats but isn’t appealing as much to the beer drinkers. After years of putting up with that issue of which candidate people would prefer to go out for a beer with, I’m glad to see us wine drinkers get taken as a serious political constituency.
I also wonder if it means anything that GQ picked Obama while Esquire went with John Edwards. But perhaps someone at Esquire wasn’t really all that fond of Edwards after putting him on the cover under the headline The Sexiest Woman Alive. After all the mistakes made by his campaign, even something which would seem positive such as being on the cover backfired against him.
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Bill Richardson’s Prospects Improving 2007-08-13 18:45:46 Add Politcal Insider as the latest site to recognize that if we look at the big picture, as opposed to national polls, Richardson
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is becoming the number three candidate in the race. I certainly wouldn’t write off John Edwards any more than I wrote off John Kerry when he trailed Al Sharpton in the national polls in 2003, but at the moment Edwards’s prospects are looking quite poor. Political Insider writes:
Gov. Bill Richardson is on the move in the leadoff primary and caucus states, and if the trend continues, he will soon supplant John Edwards as the number three candidate in the Democratic race. While the RCP Average has Richardson at just 3.7% nationally, and Edwards at 11.4%, Richardson is rising in Iowa (11.0%), New Hampshire (9.3%), and Nevada (6.0%). In New Hampshire he is just three points behind Edwards, and actually pulled ahead of him in a July CNN poll.
Richardson is gaining because of basic retail politics. The man who holds the Guinness Book world record
The Shift Towards Generic Democrats 2007-08-13 16:24:44 Via Political Wire we have more evidence of the trend I have discussed in multiple other posts. A Democaracy Corps strategy memo reviews recent polling data showing a shift towards Democrats
. Among the factors:
The “opinion elite” in the country — those with a college education and earning more than $75,000 — support a Democratic presidential candidate by an 11 point margin.
Independents have defected from Republican candidates and now support a Democrat for president by 19 points.
This is consistent with other recent data I have reviewed, such as increased support for Democrats from affluent suburbs.
What must be remembered is that these polls are for generic Democrats versus generic Republicans. Democrats won in 2006 due to the support of independents and many who previously voted Republican, such as the “Starbucks Republicans” and “South Park Republicans.” Some Democrats understand how to bridge the former party divides and attract Read more:Generic
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Hypocrite Watch Part 2: John Edwards and the News Corp. Money 2007-08-13 15:44:47 John Edwards
closely trails behind Rudy Giuliani on my list of my hypocritical politicians contending for their party’s nomination. Perhaps the best thing which could be said is that about Edwards is that he did a much smoother job of changing most of his previous views in preparation for a 2008 run than Giuliani did. Edwards succeeded where Giuliani has not largely due to adopting the views of a large segment of the liberal blogosphere. Unfortunately this also suggests that the liberal bloggers who accept Edwards’ new set of beliefs without question are less astute than those on the religious right who, despite all their faults, are smart enough to distrust Rudy Giuliani’s conversion to their point of view.
While Edwards has so far escaped much scrutiny on the changes in his political views, the hypocrisy underlying his attacks on other candidates continues to backfire against him. His initial attempts to attack other Democrats on their positons on Iraq were shot dow Read more:John Edwards
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Hypocrite Watch Part 1: Rudy Giuliani on Civil Unions 2007-08-13 12:39:18 We have news today regarding the two most hypocritical politicians who are prominent candidates for their party’s nominations. Starting with the nunber one must hypocritical politician, The Boston Globe reports that Rudy Giuliani
is constinuing his conservative shift. Giuliani started out with a reputation as a social liberal, but has gradually been changing his views in order to appease the social conservatives who control the Republican Party. Th e article discusses changes in positions on issues such as abortion and assault weapons but concentreates on civil unions:
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani
continues to discard the moderate and liberal positions of his past. The latest is civil unions for same-sex couples, which the Republican presidential candidate has been backing away from in recent months.
A campaign aide told the Globe this weekend that Giuliani favors a much more modest set of rights for gay partners than civil union laws in effect in four states offer.
Giulia Read more:Civil
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The Edwards: Dividers, Not Uniters 2007-08-12 16:43:48 Elizabeth Edwards
previously appeared to be a strong asset for her husband’s campaign, but she has now made a second major gaffe. Not long after pondering whether John is at a disadvantage for being a white male, Elizabeth is now expanding on her husband’s divisive theme. I’ve already commented on my feelings about the inherent message of class warfare in the Two American’s theme, most recently here. Now I find that Elizabeth Edwards is talking about two Democratic Parties.
The Progressive: Is there a split between “new Democrats” and progressives, or what Paul Wellstone used to call “the Democratic wing of the Democratic party?”
Elizabeth Edwards: John gave a speech at the DNC meeting saying we don’t need to reinvent our party; we just need to remember who we are. And who we are is the party of working people, including people who want to work and can’t, [and] people who have worked and are trying to retire. That’s who we a
Washington Post Magazine on Barack Obama 2007-08-12 13:39:51 The Washington
Post Magazine
has a lenghty article on BarackObama
. I’ll present one section which deals with Obama’s keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. I previously posted the text of the speech here.
In early summer of 2004, organizers of the Democratic presidential convention were faced with some challenges, chief among them the fact that no Bush-bashing would be allowed among convention speakers. The Kerry campaign didn’t want to alienate swing voters by speaking ill of Republicans. So the convention needed speakers who could present an upbeat message and still sound compelling.
There were some givens. Bill Clinton would be the prime time speaker Monday night; the third and fourth nights would feature John Edwards and John Kerry, respectively. On Tuesday they wanted a keynote speaker in the tradition of the great keynoters of the past: Barbara Jordan, Mario Cuomo, Ann Richards, “people who inspired hope,” as Donna Brazile puts it, &ldquo Read more:Barack Obama
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Huckabee Given Chance to Compete Following Iowa Straw Poll 2007-08-12 13:30:47 My initial impression to the news of the Iowa straw poll results was that it was a victory for Mike Huckabee
, an insufficient victory for Mitt Romney, and a serious loss for Ron Paul’s supporters who believe the campaign’s goal is victory as opposed to spreading a message. Other bloggers have shared this view that Mike Huckabee, as opposed to Mitt Romney, may have come out of the straw poll with the victory.
TNR writes:
Whatever the case, it’s hard to overstate the significance of Huckabee’s performance here. Combined, Huckabee and Brownback–the field’s two leading social conservatives–outpolled Mitt Romney today 33 to 31.5. If, as the results suggest, Huckabee emerges as the lone standard bearer for this group, he’ll probably end up with a block of support to rival Romney’s. (Most “Brownbackers” I spoke to would feel extremely comfortable throwing their support behind the Arkansan.) But, of course, just combining Brownb Read more:Compete
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Shifting Needed Resources from Afghanistan to Iraq 2007-08-12 02:43:16
The New York Times has a lengthy article on how the war in Afghanistan
went bad. This is one section from the article on shifting of resources from Afghanistan to Iraq
:
In October 2002, Robert Grenier, a former director of the C.I.A.’s counterintelligence center, visited the new Kuwait City headquarters of Lt. Gen David McKiernan, who was already planning the Iraq invasion. Meeting in a sheet metal warehouse, Mr. Grenier asked General McKiernan what his intelligence needs would be in Iraq. The answer was simple. “They wanted as much as they could get,” Mr. Grenier said.Throughout late 2002 and early 2003, Mr. Grenier said in an interview, “the best experienced, most qualified people who we had been using in Afghanistan shifted over to Iraq,” including the agency’s most skilled counterterrorism specialists and Middle East and paramilitary operatives.
That reduced the United States’ influence over powerful Afghan warlords who were refusing to turn over to the central gover Read more:Resources
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Premature Declaration of Victory By The Net-Roots 2007-08-11 22:11:11 Susan Gardner and Markos Moulitas take far too much credit for the 2006 Democratic victories in a Washington Post op-ed today. Just as 2004 was no mandate for George Bush’s policies, 2006 did not signify majority support for all the views held by the liberal blogosphere. As much as liberal bloggers might like to believe this, holding such delusions could lead to another lengthy period of Republican government.
Voters rejected the Republicans after years of failures. Some voted for the Democrats because they were the only choice available. A majority agreed with the Democrats on many issues, but not necessarily all. It must be kept in mind that there were reasons that people voted Republican, even before 9/11, and they may do so again if they don’t find the Democrats to be an improvement.
While the net-roots certainly helped, it is also quite likely that by 2006 the Republicans would have been rejected even if Daily Kos never existed. For Gardner and Kos to take credit for Read more:Declaration
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Romney Wins, Huckabee Second in Iowa Straw Poll 2007-08-11 21:47:07 The results on the Iowa straw poll are in:
Romney
31.5%
Huckabee
18.1%
Brownback 15%
Tancredo 13.7%
Ron Paul 9%
I think that Mike Huckabee is the only one who can really be happy tonight. Perhaps his campaign will attract more attention with this second place showing, especially as many Republicans are dissatisfied by the top tier candidates. Considering all the money Romney spent and the absence of the other top candidates, 31.5% is not much of an endorsement for him.
Maybe this will put an end to the delusions that Ron Paul has a chance at winning the nomination. Paul supporters have argued that all the internet buzz regarding Paul and greater intensity of support would lead Paul to do far better than indicated by the polls. While they are right that he could perform somewhat better than his position in the polls, this event shows that their efforts are not enough to win in the Republican Party.
I doubt that Ron Paul himself is that surprised or disappointed, although his campaign Read more:Second
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Personal Responsibility and Cheesburgers 2007-08-11 14:22:05 If you had a severe allergy to cheese and ordered a hamburger from a restaurant which commonly serves them with cheese wouldn’t the obvious thing to do be to look at the hamburger before eating it? Would you really trust the employees of a fast food restaurant regardless of whether they said there was cheese present?
The Charlston Daily Mail reports on a case where someone with an allergy to cheese ordered two Quarterpounders, stipulating that they be without cheese:
Jeromy did his part to make it known he didn’t want cheese on the hamburgers because he is allergic, Houston said.
He told a worker through the ordering speaker and then two workers face-to-face at the pay and pick-up windows that he couldn’t eat cheese, Houston said.
“By my count, he took at least five independent steps to make sure that thing had no cheese on it,” Houston said. “And it did and almost cost him his life.”
After getting the food, the three drove to Clarksburg and s Read more:Personal
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The Lost War–The War on Drugs 2007-08-19 19:06:00 The Washington Post reviews why we are losing the war on drugs, noting that prohibition does not work:
Thirty-six years and hundreds of billions of dollars after President Richard M. Nixon launched the war on drugs, consumers worldwide are taking more narcotics and criminals are making fatter profits than ever before. The syndicates that control narcotics production and distribution reap the profits from an annual turnover of $400 billion to $500 billion. And terrorist organizations such as the Taliban are using this money to expand their operations and buy ever more sophisticated weapons, threatening Western security.
In the past two years, the drug war has become the Taliban’s most effective recruiter in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Muslim extremists have reinvigorated themselves by supporting and taxing the countless peasants who are dependent one way or another on the opium trade, their only reliable source of income. The Taliban is becoming richer and stronger by the day Read more:Drugs
Richardson Stands Out in Today’s Debate 2007-08-19 17:29:53 Today’s Democratic debate helps demonstrate that Obama might have made the right decision in limiting debate appearances. This debate will not make a difference in the race but there were a couple of answers I found interesting. Previously Bill Richardson
’s campaign has been hampered by poor showings in the debate. I doubt that enough people watched today’s debate for it to matter, but if anyone can be declared the winner it would be Richardson.
There was more of the attempts to attack Obama for being inexperienced. Bill Richardson turned this discussion to his advantage:
You know, I think that Senator Obama does represent change. Senator Clinton has experience. Change and experience: With me, you get both.
And you know, my point — and, here, we’re going to need change to become energy independent. We’re going to need experience to deal with foreign leaders, as I have.You know, it’s interesting. You talk about the dispute between the two s Read more:Debate
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Edwards Exposes Lack of Knowlege on Health Care and Cuba 2007-08-19 16:44:00 With the exception of the totally-clueless Rudy Giuliani, John Edwards
just continues to show that he’s the least informed candidate running this year. He continues to prove Bob Shrum’s point that Edwards is “a Clinton who hadn’t read the books” and to verify the National Journal’s survey which ranked him as the most overrated Democratic candidate. Political Radar reports on another statement which puts Edwards’ ability to be president in question. (Hat tip to Captain’s Quarters.)
When an Iowa resident asked former senator John Edwards Thursday whether the United States should follow the Cuban healthcare model, the 2004 vice presidential contender deflected the question by saying he didn’t know enough to answer the question.
“I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s healthcare system,” Edwards, D-N.C., said at an event in Oskaloosa, Iowa. “Is it a government-run system?&rdqu Read more:Health
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A Victory for Ron Paul 2007-08-19 01:15:53 Ron Paul might have finished poorly in Iowa, but he now has a victory under his belt in a straw poll, having won in Alabama. The results were:
Paul 216
Romney 14
Hunter 10
Thompson 9
Giuliani 7
Huckabee 6
McCain 2
Brownback 2
Tancredo 0
Cox 0
Alas, the victory doesn’t look as impressive after reading these caveats from Reason:
Some caveats: It was much smaller than the Iowa or Illinois straw polls, smaller than the last Alabama poll in 1999 (won by Alan Keyes) and Mitt Romney didn’t even bother to try and buy it. It was structured a little bit like Ames Straw Poll with voting card that cost $25 in advance, $35 at the door, and required an Alabama ID to pick up. No candidate came to speak: Baptist minister John Killian spoke for Paul. So there’s a little grist for the cynics… for the true believers, 81 percent is better even than Paul usually does in online polls.
The straw poll must have been unimportant if Mitt Romney did not even bother to buy it. The Alabama Read more:Ron Paul
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Thomas Friedman’s Not Believing The Administration Claims on the Surge 2007-08-19 00:27:33 It might have taken ThomasFriedman
too long to realize that the Iraq war was a foolish mistake, but at least he is not going to be fooled by claims that the surge has been a success:
There’s only one thing at this stage that would truly impress me, and it is this: proof that there is an Iraq, proof that there is a coalition of Iraqi Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds who share our vision of a unified, multiparty, power-sharing, democratizing Iraq and who are willing to forge a social contract that will allow them to maintain such an Iraq — without U.S. troops.
Because if that is not the case, even if U.S. troops create more pockets of security via the surge, they will have no one to hand these pockets to who can maintain them without us. In other words, the only people who can prove that the surge is working are the Iraqis, and the way they prove that is by showing that violence is down in areas where there are no U.S. troops or where U.S. troops have come and gone.
Because many Americans Read more:Administration
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Frank Rich on Recalling the Defective Rove 2007-08-19 00:24:24 Frank Rich writes that August is the month to recall defective products. For the Bush administration the defective product is Karl Rove. Rich notes that even some on the right have lost confidence in Rove:
What the Rove critics on the right recognize is that it may be even more difficult for their political party to dig out of his wreckage than it will be for America. Their angry bill of grievances only sporadically overlaps that of the Democrats. One popular conservative blogger, Michelle Malkin, mocked Mr. Rove and his interviewer, Paul Gigot, for ignoring “the Harriet Miers debacle, the botching of the Dubai ports battle, or the undeniable stumbles in post-Iraq invasion policies,” not to mention “the spectacular disaster of the illegal alien shamnesty.” Ms. Malkin, an Asian-American in her 30s, comes from a far different place than the Gigot-Fred Barnes-William Kristol axis of Bush-era ideological lock step.
Those Bush dead-enders are in a serious state of de Read more:Frank
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