Last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama received some of the highest marks ever. One poll has 91% of the viewers approving of what the President said, while another had the approval at 84%. A vast majority of this country likes the plans the President laid out and that’s a number you […]
And check out who it is: This week, John’s exclusive guests are Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) LIVE from Jerusalem. We’ll get their insight on the foiled airline terror plot and President Obama’s strategy on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Benen points out: Hmm, McCain and Lieberman, talking together […]
This is bipartisanship you can believe in: Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel will soon have a new role in the Obama administration, he will be named co-chair of President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. In that capacity, Hagel will be charged with overseeing the work of the intelligence agencies for the president and investigating violations of law […]
I been reading through a lot of reactions to Arlen Specter’s party switch yesterday, and one quote stuck out at me: The Republican Party was founded as a party of individual rights and individual initiative. It led the fight to end slavery, give women the right to vote, expand national parks and break up corporate […]
Yup – that’s what the foundation of right wing idiocy, the National Review, is pushing, along with an attempt to get Time Magazine to name Palin “Person of the Year”. What’s one of their qualifying factors? On the lighter side, one foreign-policy expert showed up for a panel in a towel (but fully clothed underneath) […]
Lawrence O’Donnell pressed Lawrence Eagleburger on the whole “foreign policy experience” meme going around about Obama. O’Donnell wanted to know why Eagleburger supported governors Bush and Reagan when they didn’t have the foreign policy experience their opponents did. After a few minutes of Eagleburger trying to dodge the question he finally changed his tune to […]
Right wing hack Jeff Jacoby apparently saw a different debate last night than the rest of the world: JOHN MCCAIN’S opening words last night were: “Senator Obama, it’s good to be with you at a town hall meeting!” Indeed it was. We now know why Barack Obama declined McCain’s invitation earlier this year to appear […]
Perhaps if John McCain and Sarah Palin worried about what was actually happening in the world, instead of spreading their lies, they would see what is happening: U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan on Aug. 22 killed some 30 civilians, far more than the military has previously acknowledged, defense officials said Wednesday. So which candidate knows about […]
The McCain campaign is threatening Gwen Ifill if she asks to many/hard foreign policy questions Thursday night: Of course the moron Steve Doocey now says people are more concerned about “domestic issues”. Funny that when they talk about John McCain they say the voters are more concerned about foreign policy. So this should be chalked […]
Cenk has come up with a real good reason that McCain wants the debate moved: Then I realized why they didn’t want to have this debate now. The first debate is on foreign policy. Conventional wisdom and the McCain camp believe this is their strong suit. But the news cycle is dominated right now by […]