Shelby Steele acknowledged he doesn't believe claim in subtitle of his own book on Obama — Shelby Steele, author of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win (Free Press, December 2007), acknowledged that he thinks Sen. Barack Obama “can definitely win” …
Dobson: Obama 'distorting' Bible, has 'confused theology'
Liz Cheney: On ‘The Really Important Issues,’ McCain Is ‘Advocating’ The Same Policies As Bush And My Dad
In a speech earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to bat down the idea that he is “running for President Bush’s third term” by calling it a “false” notion. “I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration” on Iraq, McCain claimed.
But conservatives continue to undermine his efforts by acknowledging that McCain’s policy proposals mirror the policies of the Bush administration.
On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell asked Liz Cheney, a former State Department official who is also the daughter of Vice President Cheney, about McCain’s efforts to separate himself from Bush. “It’s not surprising to see the distancing going on,” replied Cheney. But, she added, “on the really important issues” McCain is advocating for policies that Bush and Cheney supporters “believe are the right ones”:
CHENEY: At the same time, I think on the really important issues that face the country, on issues like the war on terror and the economy, Senator McCain in fact is advocating those policies that those of us who supported President Bush and the Vice President believe are the right ones for this nation.
McCain rejects adviser’s claim that another terrorist attack would be ‘a big advantage’ for his campaign.
Earlier yesterday, Fortune released an article on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in which McCain’s chief strategist, Charlie Black, said that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil “would be a big advantage” for McCain. Asked to respond to Black’s quote during a press conference in Fresno, CA, McCain rejected it: “If he said that, and I do not know the context, I strenuously disagree.”
Washington Post Reporter: Obama ‘Is Much More White Than Black’
During a washingtonpost.com web chat , a questioner noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has launched a new presidential campaign television ad, claiming it is “playing up his white family.” “Until now he’s been ‘African American;’ now suddenly he’s a white Midwesterner?” wrote the questioner.
He or she then asked Post reporter Jonathan Weisman if Obama would be “criticized” for allegedly changing his image. Weisman responded by saying Obama’s “great irony” is that he “is much more white than black“:
Alexandria, Va.: Obama’s new ad (which plays a lot in Alexandria) shows pictures of his mother and grandparents, playing up his white family. Until now he’s been “African American”; now suddenly he’s a white Midwesterner? During the primary Hillary was criticized for changing her image too many times. Won’t Obama be criticized for doing the same thing?
Jonathan Weisman: I haven’t heard that criticism, but it is striking. Not a single picture of his father. Now, that really is consistent with his upbringing. He really did not become immersed in black American culture until he left college and went to Chicago. The great irony is that he is much more white than black, beyond skin color.
Don Imus responds: I was misunderstood!
Earlier yesterday, Don Imus again made racially-charged comments about a black athlete. Responding to wave of criticism that ensued, Imus claimed this afternoon that he had been misunderstood:
Asked in an e-mail message what he was trying to convey, Mr. Imus wrote: “I meant he was being picked on because he’s black.’’ He added that Dick Gregory, a veteran comedian and activist who is black, would be a guest on his show on Tuesday, to discuss the death of George Carlin. “We’ll see what he thinks,’’ Mr. Imus wrote. “I mean…come on!’’
Feith Defends Rice’s Pre-War ‘Mushroom Cloud’ Claim On Iraq: It Was Neither A ‘Gaffe’ Nor A ‘Lie’
On CNN on Sept. 8, 2002, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice infamously warned — incorrectly — that Saddam Hussein may be close to producing a nuclear weapon. When asked how “close” Saddam was to “developing a nuclear capacity,” Rice replied:
RICE: The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how
quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
As a push for action against Iraq, she added, “How long are we going to wait to deal with what is clearly a gathering threat against the United States, against our allies and against his own region?”
Over at the Corner today, Douglas Feith attempts to defend this statement. “Rice’s reference to the mushroom cloud has been widely denounced as a gaffe or a lie,” he writes. “But it was neither.” From his post:
Rice was highlighting the limits of U.S. intelligence. While emphasizing the disparate estimates about how close Saddam was to a nuclear bomb, Rice was saying that the CIA would not necessarily know when Saddam acquired one.
She was warning that we might not learn this until after a detonation. This was an important and accurate statement. … Rice deserves credit for stressing here the gaps and uncertainties in U.S. intelligence.
David Brooks’ Head Explodes Over Obama’s Public Financing Decision
The New York Times:
God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they’re running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson.
But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
Tom Ridge links the Iraq War to Iran to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: Oil
Tom Ridge takes up the usual discredited conservative talking point that if our troops leave Iraq, al-Qaeda and Iran will control everything there—including all the oil fields on FOX News Sunday. Man, there certainly are a lot of terrorists running around in Iraq now. Didn’t the administration tell us that al-Qaeda has been defeated in Iraq already? Oh, right —so now it’s Iran. Iran is running around in Iraq now…
Wallace: …as part of your answer, at what point does Sen McCain say we do have to turn it over to the Iraqis.
Ridge: Well I think again, it depends on the situation on the ground as the NY Times is reporting…blah, blah, blah..it is a central venue in this war against terror…blah, blah. blah..the lind of support we provided Germany and South Korea….(sorry, I couldn’t transcribe it all. I just couldn’t get myself to do it.)
Ridge: We never want to turn Iraq back over to the Iraqis because we want their oil, Chris. Is that plain enough for you?
Wallace: Certainly Gov. Ridge, thanks for being so candid with us. You heard it right here folks on FNS. McCain never wants to leave Iraq. Back after the break.
Perino: It’s ‘Irresponsible To Suggest’ That There Is ‘A Short-Term Response’ To Gas Prices
Last week, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that anyone who was promoting a quick fix to high gas prices “is trying to fool people.” Today, press secretary Dana Perino echoed those claims, emphasizing that “there is no magic wand” to dealing with gas prices. She also stated flatly, “There’s not going to be a short-term response,” calling it “irresponsible” to suggest there could be:
PERINO: So the important thing that we need to do is…find ways that we can continue to express to the American people not to expect a short-term response. There’s not going to be a short-term response. And it would be irresponsible for anybody to suggest there would be.
Karl Rove Throws Stones From His Glass Country Club
ABC News reports that, during a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club, Karl Rove attacked Barack Obama as “the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
If there’s anyone who knows anything about country club settings, it’s Karl Rove. As Matthew Yglesias writes, “Rove assumes that ‘you know this guy’ but unless ‘you’ are a wealthy person from the past, you probably don’t know a guy like that.” Here are just a few reports of Rove’s country club fundraisers in recent years:
Dobson: Obama 'distorting' Bible, has 'confused theology'
Liz Cheney: On ‘The Really Important Issues,’ McCain Is ‘Advocating’ The Same Policies As Bush And My Dad
In a speech earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to bat down the idea that he is “running for President Bush’s third term” by calling it a “false” notion. “I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration” on Iraq, McCain claimed.
But conservatives continue to undermine his efforts by acknowledging that McCain’s policy proposals mirror the policies of the Bush administration.
On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell asked Liz Cheney, a former State Department official who is also the daughter of Vice President Cheney, about McCain’s efforts to separate himself from Bush. “It’s not surprising to see the distancing going on,” replied Cheney. But, she added, “on the really important issues” McCain is advocating for policies that Bush and Cheney supporters “believe are the right ones”:
CHENEY: At the same time, I think on the really important issues that face the country, on issues like the war on terror and the economy, Senator McCain in fact is advocating those policies that those of us who supported President Bush and the Vice President believe are the right ones for this nation.
McCain rejects adviser’s claim that another terrorist attack would be ‘a big advantage’ for his campaign.
Earlier yesterday, Fortune released an article on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in which McCain’s chief strategist, Charlie Black, said that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil “would be a big advantage” for McCain. Asked to respond to Black’s quote during a press conference in Fresno, CA, McCain rejected it: “If he said that, and I do not know the context, I strenuously disagree.”
Washington Post Reporter: Obama ‘Is Much More White Than Black’
During a washingtonpost.com web chat , a questioner noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has launched a new presidential campaign television ad, claiming it is “playing up his white family.” “Until now he’s been ‘African American;’ now suddenly he’s a white Midwesterner?” wrote the questioner.
He or she then asked Post reporter Jonathan Weisman if Obama would be “criticized” for allegedly changing his image. Weisman responded by saying Obama’s “great irony” is that he “is much more white than black“:
Alexandria, Va.: Obama’s new ad (which plays a lot in Alexandria) shows pictures of his mother and grandparents, playing up his white family. Until now he’s been “African American”; now suddenly he’s a white Midwesterner? During the primary Hillary was criticized for changing her image too many times. Won’t Obama be criticized for doing the same thing?
Jonathan Weisman: I haven’t heard that criticism, but it is striking. Not a single picture of his father. Now, that really is consistent with his upbringing. He really did not become immersed in black American culture until he left college and went to Chicago. The great irony is that he is much more white than black, beyond skin color.
Don Imus responds: I was misunderstood!
Earlier yesterday, Don Imus again made racially-charged comments about a black athlete. Responding to wave of criticism that ensued, Imus claimed this afternoon that he had been misunderstood:
Asked in an e-mail message what he was trying to convey, Mr. Imus wrote: “I meant he was being picked on because he’s black.’’ He added that Dick Gregory, a veteran comedian and activist who is black, would be a guest on his show on Tuesday, to discuss the death of George Carlin. “We’ll see what he thinks,’’ Mr. Imus wrote. “I mean…come on!’’
Feith Defends Rice’s Pre-War ‘Mushroom Cloud’ Claim On Iraq: It Was Neither A ‘Gaffe’ Nor A ‘Lie’
On CNN on Sept. 8, 2002, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice infamously warned — incorrectly — that Saddam Hussein may be close to producing a nuclear weapon. When asked how “close” Saddam was to “developing a nuclear capacity,” Rice replied:
RICE: The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how
quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
As a push for action against Iraq, she added, “How long are we going to wait to deal with what is clearly a gathering threat against the United States, against our allies and against his own region?”
Over at the Corner today, Douglas Feith attempts to defend this statement. “Rice’s reference to the mushroom cloud has been widely denounced as a gaffe or a lie,” he writes. “But it was neither.” From his post:
Rice was highlighting the limits of U.S. intelligence. While emphasizing the disparate estimates about how close Saddam was to a nuclear bomb, Rice was saying that the CIA would not necessarily know when Saddam acquired one.
She was warning that we might not learn this until after a detonation. This was an important and accurate statement. … Rice deserves credit for stressing here the gaps and uncertainties in U.S. intelligence.
David Brooks’ Head Explodes Over Obama’s Public Financing Decision
The New York Times:
God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they’re running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson.
But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
Tom Ridge links the Iraq War to Iran to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: Oil
Tom Ridge takes up the usual discredited conservative talking point that if our troops leave Iraq, al-Qaeda and Iran will control everything there—including all the oil fields on FOX News Sunday. Man, there certainly are a lot of terrorists running around in Iraq now. Didn’t the administration tell us that al-Qaeda has been defeated in Iraq already? Oh, right —so now it’s Iran. Iran is running around in Iraq now…
Wallace: …as part of your answer, at what point does Sen McCain say we do have to turn it over to the Iraqis.
Ridge: Well I think again, it depends on the situation on the ground as the NY Times is reporting…blah, blah, blah..it is a central venue in this war against terror…blah, blah. blah..the lind of support we provided Germany and South Korea….(sorry, I couldn’t transcribe it all. I just couldn’t get myself to do it.)
Ridge: We never want to turn Iraq back over to the Iraqis because we want their oil, Chris. Is that plain enough for you?
Wallace: Certainly Gov. Ridge, thanks for being so candid with us. You heard it right here folks on FNS. McCain never wants to leave Iraq. Back after the break.
Perino: It’s ‘Irresponsible To Suggest’ That There Is ‘A Short-Term Response’ To Gas Prices
Last week, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that anyone who was promoting a quick fix to high gas prices “is trying to fool people.” Today, press secretary Dana Perino echoed those claims, emphasizing that “there is no magic wand” to dealing with gas prices. She also stated flatly, “There’s not going to be a short-term response,” calling it “irresponsible” to suggest there could be:
PERINO: So the important thing that we need to do is…find ways that we can continue to express to the American people not to expect a short-term response. There’s not going to be a short-term response. And it would be irresponsible for anybody to suggest there would be.
Karl Rove Throws Stones From His Glass Country Club
ABC News reports that, during a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club, Karl Rove attacked Barack Obama as “the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
If there’s anyone who knows anything about country club settings, it’s Karl Rove. As Matthew Yglesias writes, “Rove assumes that ‘you know this guy’ but unless ‘you’ are a wealthy person from the past, you probably don’t know a guy like that.” Here are just a few reports of Rove’s country club fundraisers in recent years:
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