We finally have a major media outlet, the AP, reporting that John McCain is actually a conservative: The independent label sticks to John McCain because he antagonizes fellow Republicans and likes to work with Democrats. But a different label applies to his actual record: conservative. The likely Republican presidential nominee is much more conservative than […]
Bill has really lost it. Now he is trying to repeat the lies Hillary told about her Bosnia trip: Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife’s tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife’s mistake in claiming that she landed under […]
Not my words, but the words of Bloomberg news: McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq And that thought should send cold shivers down your spine. Hell you should wake up in a cold sweat, screaming in the middle of the night. Just check this out: John McCain is at least as determined […]
Last night on Real Time, Terry McAuliffe refused to answer Bill’s question of Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience when he took office. Instead he resorted to a right wing talking point; “it’s a changed world since 9/11”. The real interesting part is at the end when Bill made a joke about Bill Clinton. Suddenly Terry’s […]
This is hilarious. Yglesias has the details: Slate’s John Dickerson asks an obvious question on a conference call with Hillary Clinton’s campaign: “What foreign policy moment would you point to in Hillary’s career where she’s been tested by crisis?” After an uncomfortably long moment during which neither Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson and Lee Feinstein have […]
Because Bush has had nothing but success in his foreign policy: President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s pledge to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, leaping squarely into the race to succeed him. “I’m not suggesting there’s never a time to talk, but I’m suggesting now is not […]
Bet you didn’t know that Pakistan’s eastern border was with Afghanistan – did ya? People who questioned my view of foreign policy probably need go back and read the speech that i delivered back in Washington in September. … We have seen what happens in the Musharraf government. He has told us he does not […]
We all know billions of dollars have gone missing in Iraq and Bush hasn’t batted an eye about it. I suspect we will see the same lack of concern over the billions wasted in Iraq: After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military […]
That is an article in Today’s Washington Post, which describes sheets our troops are given to describe lawmakers visiting: The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) […]
Rudy talks about being so pro-active when it comes to Iraq and terrorism. Well how about this: Rudolph Giuliani’s membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel’s top Republican to give him […]