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Kristol Watch 2008-03-17 17:49:30 By my count Bill Kristol’s had to issue two major corrections during his brief tenure as a New York Times columnist. Don’t give them any more excuses, Bill!
Playing Checkers 2008-03-17 17:24:31 What would help Sen. Obama most in his speech tomorrow? 1) A Sister Soulja denunciation? 2) Saying, “You don’t know Jeremiah like I know Jeremiah?” 3) Something in between? I say #3. The candidate tilted toward door #2 today, according to Ben Smith:
[Obama] also briefly defended Wright from the image that has come through in a handful [...]
Searching for Daddy 2008-03-17 16:30:35 Dennis Prager (who’ll broadcast life from our White House East Room in Yorba Linda on Thursday, April 3) began his show this morning by talking about Pastor Wright as Sen. Obama’s father substitute. Only RN’s other friends and aides can know how much he would despise this kind of inquiry — our stalwart Depression- and [...] Read more:Daddy
Obusiness as Usual 2008-03-17 10:13:03 Bill Kristol in the New York Times:
The more you learn about him, the more Obama seems to be a conventionally opportunistic politician, impressively smart and disciplined, who has put together a good political career and a terrific presidential campaign. But there’s not much audacity of hope there. There’s the calculation of ambition, and the construction [...]
TWTW2/3 2008-03-17 02:25:38 A summary of the major events of last week —9-15 March— would include the ongoing internecine war consuming the Clinton and Obama camps. So far at least the Clinton campaign has been the principal offender in this regard. James Carville published an interesting article in the Financial Times —“Halt the political hara-kiri”. Deeply embedded in [...]
Happy Birthday, Pat 2008-03-16 21:22:32 From RN’s memoirs:
[In 1938] I went to the casting tryouts for a production of George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott’s play, The Dark Tower. I thought I knew everyone in Whittier, but that night a beautiful and vivicious young woman with titian hair appeared whom I had never seen before. I found I could not [...] Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, Happy Birthday
Neocon Or Not? Only McCain Knows For Sure 2008-03-16 21:15:09 The Nixon Center’s Dimitri Simes helps moderate a discussion in the LA Times about where Sen. McCain
fits on the foreign policy continuum:
One sign of the internal contradictions in his views is growing friction between rival camps of McCain supporters — between neoconservatives and those with more traditional views, widely called “realists.” Both sides believe they [...]
Secret Scandals? 2008-03-16 20:28:41 According to a caption writer at the Seattle Times:
Former President Richard Nixon rose from the ashes of scandal at least twice, becoming an author and statesman.
“At least”? And when exactly was the first one?
Forgive Me, Father, If I Was Wrong 2008-03-19 19:55:02 Five years ago, when I was still in seminary and working as an intern at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Tustin, California, I preached a sermon on Iraq. I wouldn’t say it was pro-war, but it sure wasn’t antiwar, and in our liberal Diocese it raised eyebrows. My mentor priest at St. Paul’s, the Rev. [...] Read more:Father
, Wrong
Blood and Oil 2008-03-19 12:50:55 One hundred people gathered outside the IRS today to protest the war in Iraq. Their action near a secondary target–the headquarters of the American Petroleum Institute, the association of U.S. oil companies–briefly snarled traffic around The Nixon Center’s Washington offices, even encouraging our office building to close its garage temporarily. Other than that, however, it [...] Read more:Blood
Featured Articles — March 19, 2008 2008-03-19 07:33:06 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
No Surrender By Fouad Ajami
We’ve not always fought most wisely or skillfully. Five years on, Iraq still isn’t perfect. But we’ve made it a better country.
What if The Fed Fails? By David Ignatius
The Federal Reserve decided last weekend in the inferno of the financial crisis that Wall Street’s major players [...] Read more:Featured
, Articles
, March
“Jesus and the Disinherited” 2008-03-18 20:00:45 Various experts explaining the African-American church have referred to the work of pastor, dean, and theologian Howard Thurman, who battled the self-segregating tendencies of U.S. Protestants by establishing a legendary integrated church in San Francisco in the 1960s. His Jesus
and the Disinherited, published in 1949, contained this passage, which should be instructive to Pastor Wright [...]
Back to the Pastor for a Minute 2008-03-18 13:45:57 Exults Jon Robin Baitz on “The Huffington Post”:
Barack Obama’s speech, perhaps one of the most important in modern political history pushed us as a people to move beyond race and gender, beyond Democrat and Republican, beyond politics and into reviving the spirit of the nation itself. To talk, to talk at home, at work, at [...] Read more:Pastor
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Maybe Not Unless McCain Does It, Too 2008-03-18 12:31:30 TIME’s Joe Klein identifies a Clinton/Obama pattern of saying one thing and believing another, or saying something and having aides say that’s not actually what the candidate would do as President. I’d think political reporters would want to get to work on this right away. Politicians not believing what they say is a big story, [...] Read more:Maybe
, McCain
Anyone Seen That Red Phone? No, the REAL One! 2008-03-18 11:40:29 First draft of history or bum rap? Reviewing Fred Kaplan’s book about President Bush’s foreign policy, Daydream Believers, Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times:
Mr. Bush similarly emerges from this book as a naïve, impulsive and stubborn leader, whose moral certitude and penchant for denial have made him more inclined to double down on [...] Read more:Anyone
You Say Dmitri, We Say Dimitri 2008-03-18 11:24:51 The LA Times ran this correction this morning to its story about misgivings that foreign policy realists have expressed about Sen. McCain:
In an article in Sunday’s Section A about John McCain’s views on foreign policy over the last 25 years, Nixon Center President Dimitri Simes was described as saying that McCain had privately assured some [...]
Featured Articles — March 18, 2008 2008-03-18 03:58:04 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
European Democracy By Wall Street Journal Editors
Ireland and Poland annoy EU mandarins by considering votes on the Lisbon Treaty.
The best of all possible presidents By Amir Oren
When their helicopter takes off tomorrow for a tour of Israel from the sky, Senator John McCain and Defense Minister Ehud Barak will hope [...] Read more:Featured
, Articles
, March
Eisenhower and the Cold War 2008-03-22 00:25:47 A University of Colorado scholar shows that President Eisenhower
thought the U.S. could fight and win a nuclear war.
And on a Happier (Bach) Note…. 2008-03-21 20:24:38 THE NIXON FOUNDATION AND THE READERS OF THE NEW NIXON BLOG
TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN EXTENDING THEIR WARMEST
CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY
21 MARCH 1685
We Call This Friday Good 2008-03-21 20:22:08 This is the time of year when Bach’s Passions (St. John 1724 and, particularly, St. Matthew 1727) are performed around the world — from Boston to Auckland.
The St. Matthew Passion has inspired artists as different as Pier Paolo Pasolini (who considered casting Jack Kerouac as Jesus in his 1964 film The Gospel According to St. [...] Read more:Friday
An Actor For All Seasons 2008-03-21 18:50:05 Once in a while a coincidence comes along that makes you stop and think. On Tuesday night my wife and I were browsing through the on-demand feature of our local cable service. Going through the list of about 200 films, I spotted A Man For All Seasons I had read Robert Bolt’s play about Sir Thomas More [...] Read more:Actor
Not The New Nixon Anymore 2008-03-21 18:36:46 Steve Clemons says Sen. McCain has abandoned a foreign policy based on Nixon
ian enlightened national interest and gone necon.
The Last Doughboy 2008-03-21 18:19:08 For many in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland, March 17 this year was just another St. Patrick’s Day. But in France it was a day for a more somber commemoration, as French president Nicolas Sarkozy oversaw a ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides to mark the death of Lazare Ponticelli the previous week [...]
On Good Friday, Pray For Peace 2008-03-21 14:25:17 Some Episcopal pilgrims and I were in Jerusalem last year during the week Hamas seized control of Gaza. That Friday
, Israel stationed soldiers at entrances to the Old City to keep young Palestinian men from getting through to services at the Al-Aqsa mosque. Israel had the right to be worried about security. It could not [...] Read more:Peace
Jeremiah’s Jeremiads: Pulpit Demagoguery 2008-03-21 09:23:41 Though Rev. Jeremiah
Wright’s diatribes have been widely condemned, some have sought to dismiss them as episodic rather than chronic; a few isolated statements wrested out of context by those looking for anti-Obama ammunition. Others have tried to defend the Illinois pastor by suggesting that too many Americans don’t understand the black church.
And then there [...]
Or Let’s See What Britney’s Up To 2008-03-20 16:56:53 Hey, Presidential candidates! How about some Major Addresses about those old-fashioned, oh-so-20th-century Great Powers? China’s crackdown in Tibet is diminishing prospects for the Beijing-friendly Nationalists in the Taiwan Presidential election this weekend. The first pillar of a late-’08 China-Taiwan crisis would be the resurgence of pro-independence sentiment on Taiwan. The second would be a less-than-successful [...] Read more:Britney
Kennedyland 2008-03-20 16:30:30 Worried that Sen. Obama may be moving to the center on Iraq, Tom Hayden discusses JFK’s fearmongering about the Soviets in the 1960 election and its consequences in his administration — another concession from the left that we might’ve been better off if RN had taken office in January 1961:
John F. Kennedy, accused variously of [...]
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