Sunday Night Open Thread
So, what’s on your mind? Got any links you want to share? Stories that need a plug? Requests to make? The floor is yours….
So, what’s on your mind? Got any links you want to share? Stories that need a plug? Requests to make? The floor is yours….
It’s likely that the White House and the McCain campaign will call this a transcription error, or insist that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari didn’t really mean what he said, or perhaps even parse the meaning of the word “timeline,” but for the rest of us, we now have yet another top Iraqi official demanding […]
Four days ago, the WaPo’s David Broder argued very awkwardly that “the tone and direction” of the presidential campaign has been needlessly hostile, and attributed it to the lack of debates between John McCain and Barack Obama. “Since the idea of joint town meetings was scrapped, the campaign has featured tough and often negative ads […]
Media interest in John Edwards’ adultery controversy is probably inevitable. He’s not a sitting lawmaker or candidate for anything anymore, but he’s a well-known political figure caught up in a sex scandal. News outlets are going to cover this; it’s unavoidable. But some reporters want to keep the story in perspective, and want cable news […]
One could, I suppose, criticize Barack Obama for wanting to take a break from the campaign trail. There are just 86 days until the election, and just 15 days until the Democratic National Convention, and one might feel tempted to tell Obama, “You can rest after November 4.” But it seems Obama isn’t being criticized […]
With the conflict between Russia and Georgia moving “toward full-scale war,” even those of us who follow the news closely might pause and think, “Now, what’s that conflict about again?” The NYT’s James Traub wrote a very helpful piece today offering plenty of background and history to explain the context for the violence, and why […]
So, what’s on your mind? Got any links you want to share? Stories that need a plug? Requests to make? War in Russia Georgia? Olympics? Bernie Mac’s untimely passing? Lingering interest in the Edwards affair? The floor is yours….
In his first-ever Democratic radio address, Barack Obama touched on one of the bigger stories of the week that probably didn’t generate quite as much attention as it should have. [T]he Iraqi government now has a $79 billion budget surplus thanks to their windfall oil profits. And while this Iraqi money sits in American banks, […]
In Ohio, the Obama campaign is hitting John McCain hard on job losses. In Nevada, it’s Yucca Mountain. “Imagine trucks hauling the nation’s nuclear waste on our highways to Yucca Mountain,” the campaign voice-over says. “John McCain supports opening Yucca. He’s not worried about nuclear waste in our state — only in Arizona.” Viewers are […]
One month ago today, John McCain hosted a town-hall event in Ohio, when Mary Houghtaling, who runs a hospice in Wilmington, choked up in describing the devastating job losses associated with DHL’s plans to close its domestic air hub in her town. McCain said he’d been “briefed” on the situation, which he described as “a […]