Michael Hirsh, who thinks Giuliani is suspect for cozying up too much to those nasty, unpopular neocons, offers an interesting quote in his recent Newsweek piece [emphasis mine]: [Giuliani]’s positioning himself as the neo-neocon,” jokes Richard Holbrooke, a top foreign-policy … Continue reading →
The antiwar faction of the Democratic Party seems troubled. How, when things looked so bright back in November of last year, could it have all gone so horribly wrong? It’s not that they’re about to give up pressuring those swing … Continue reading →
The antiwar, anti-Bush Leftist organization MoveOn isn’t keen on preemptive strikes—except for its own towards its designated enemies, who now seem to include General Petraeus. MoveOn has drawn quite a bit of metaphorical flak for its ad in the NY … Continue reading →
I’ve likened the political machinations around the surge to theater. And today, as we await General Petraeus’s testimony, the usual players are taking on their customary roles. The MoveOn Left continues to consider it important to disqualify Petraeus as a … Continue reading →
What do we learn from the latest Osama videotape? (1) He’s alive. (2) He looks like crap, between his dyed beard and his cadaverous mien. (3) The appeal he’s making is to the useful idiots in the US whom he … Continue reading →
Bill Clinton referred to himself as “The Comeback Kid” during the 1992 campaign, when his moribund candidacy was revived in the state of New Hampshire. Now Clinton might be poised to quite literally come back—to the White House, that is, … Continue reading →
Remember those tests of perception known as figure/ground drawings? As a child I was fascinated by their magical “now you see it, now you see something else” mutability. Here are two of the most popular—the vase/profiles one and the young … Continue reading →
Yesterday I saw my first one of these: Can’t say as I do. But that’s just me. I was never a big fan, even though I voted for him—twice, with vigor. But in the NH primary of 92, I was … Continue reading →
Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is a Catholic, although—as this column by Richard Cohen points out—his marital history isn’t precisely what the Catholic church would consider ideal. Cohen compares Giuliani’s recent answer to a question about his Catholicism with that of … Continue reading →
This NY Times article describes how the Democratic Presidential candidates are starting to offer a few more ideas about how they might manage an Iraqi pullout, if elected. I guess they’ve given up on their earlier strategy of pressuring Bush. … Continue reading →
It seems the gloves are off—not that they ever were really on. Senator Schumer has flung down the gauntlet (can’t resist those glove metaphors) and said that the Democrats need to oppose all of President Bush’s future Supreme Court nominations, … Continue reading →
I don’t know whether it shocks you, but it still has the capacity to shock me that the Democrats don’t seem to care about the consequences of their current stance on Iraq. Perhaps that’s the best indication that they are … Continue reading →