Sunday Show Wrap Up, 5/11/08
David Axelrod, Terry McAuliffe, and John Edwards make the rounds.
Sunday Show Wrap Up, 5/11/08
David Axelrod, Terry McAuliffe, and John Edwards make the rounds.
Senior Moment?
Obama says he's visited 57 states. Whoops.
Mark Steyn defends free speech
Mark Steyn defending free speech on "The Agenda" with Steve Paikin.
So Much for the New Politics
Obama makes a sly reference to McCain's age, and Joe Lieberman responds.
Huffington on Colbert Report
Arianna Huffington tells Stephen that the Iraq war is John McCain's Viagra.
The Mac on the Daily Show
A good blend of comedy and politics.
Bolton: Bomb Iran
John Bolton makes the case for taking out camps in Iran.
Obama’s Victory Speech in NC
Barack Obama seems to have gotten his mojo back with a big win in North …
Hillary’s Top Ten
The top ten reasons Hillary Clinton loves America....
| Primetime Politics
His success this fall may depend on an erstwhile foe: Mike Huckabee.
| The Weekly Standard
Prospects for Republicans in the 2008 election here at home look grim. The political environment isn’t as bad as it was in 2006 when Republicans lost both houses of Congress and a lot more. But it’s close.
| The New York Times
Of all the well-meaning desires projected on Barack Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world’s Muslims is the least realistic.
| Financial Times
An Obama-McCain contest in November then presents a novel prospect – an election in which the candidates devote more effort to challenging each other’s ideas than to questioning each other’s character and good faith.
| Hot Air
Not only did the Prince of Peace say at the YouTube debate last July that he’d meet personally and without precondition with Iran, he reaffirmed that position in November in an interview.
| National Review
The problem with Obama is that his positions on Iraq were the wrong ones to embrace based on the facts on the ground at the time.
| Pajamas Media
That laudable proposition, that America has finally moved beyond race, is beginning to foster surreal rules of campaigning from both the media and Obama himself that do no one any good.
| The New York Times
Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.
| Wall Street Journal
The sniper never knew what hit him. The airman who fired the missile was 8,000 miles away.
| Los Angeles Times
The war there is not an intellectual exercise. It has real, personal consequences.
| The Washington Times
“We are seeing a redrawing of the map of the Middle East where the forces of resistance and steadfastness are the ones moving the things on the ground.”
| The Dallas Morning News
Washington is now engaged in a largely partisan debate over what to do. The difference between the two approaches is instructive.
| Wall Street Journal
Foreign-owned companies employ more than five million people in the U.S.
| The American
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key.
| Slate
Perhaps, but not necessarily as a Jewish state.
| Primetime Politics
Chinese media say earthquake death toll in one Sichuan county is estimated at 3,000 to 5,000.
| New York Post
Would you take an offer if you knew that by refusing it you’d get a better one?
| The New York Times
In 2008, the defense of the state of Israel, and everything it stands for, requires a kind of courage very much out of accord with the perpetual click-clack of our politics.
| The Washington Post
In Burma, the U.N. has once again failed to protect a people whose government has failed them.
| Politico
Diverted for now by Operation Chaos and the Democratic primary, Rush looks ahead to a McCain presidency and says he “will thrive.”
| The Wall Street Journal
The filibuster may be the only tool Republicans have in 2009.
| Newsweek
A Republican reformer has advice for the new guy promising to clean up Washington: get specific.
| The New York Times
Even before the Democratic nomination fight ends, the candidates are focusing on independent voters, Latinos and about a dozen states where they think the contest will be decided.
| National Journal
Wright aside, if Obama’s race were a net liability with voters, he would have had no chance of winning the nomination.
| Townhall
It was a controversy so complicated that it gave many opinion-makers—including me—pause.
| Time
The outcome of the Lebanese political crisis may have been inevitable.
| The Long War Journal
The agreement will allow for the Iraqi military to operate freely inside Sadr City while the Mahdi Army must halt its fighting.
| The New York Times
American soldiers search for roadside bombs around the clock, in dangerous missions hidden behind the bland job description of “route clearance.”
| The New York Times Magazine
Everyone wants girls to have as many opportunities in sports as boys. But can we live with the greater rate of injuries they suffer?
| Boston Globe
The birth of the state of Israel 60 years ago this week was an astonishment. It is not unheard of for a nation to vanish from the map and later reappear.
| Los Angeles Times
After six decades, the Jewish state’s hopes for peace are near death.
| Newsweek
Shimon Peres on the search for peace with the Palestinians, the Iranian threat and American presidents since Truman.
| American Thinker
The uncomfortable examination of Islamic doctrines and history is required in order to understand the enduring phenomenon of Muslim Jew hatred, which dates back to the origins of Islam.
| Investor's Business Daily
Oil spiked $4 Friday on new evidence of Venezuela’s deep involvement in terrorism. There’s no glossing over such news: Hugo Chavez intends to destabilize the region. The U.S. will need to take action.