SOMETIMES IT takes a comedian to put political skirmishes into perspective. For my money, the best comedic writing and video editing is Stewart and his team on the foreign policy debate. It reveals Romney’s strategy, that since you can’t beat the sitting commander in chief you might as well join him. The Daily Show with [...]
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The ‘Disposition Matrix’, the ‘Kill List’ Upgrade: Just How Much ‘Lesser Evil’ is Acceptable?
The Washington Post article from a couple of days ago continues to spark conversation. Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists, by Greg Miller, begins: Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called [...]
Debates Over, Republican Noise Tries to Drown Out Reality [Videos]
THE RACE is tied. Ohio still looking like the Democratic firewall, thanks to Mitt Romney, a state he has to win, but Obama needs, too. The notion that Sen. Harry Reid would let Nevada slip to Romney is laughable, when you think of scenarios to 270. So now that the debates are over, perhaps people [...]
Obama’s “Horses and Bayonets” Top Trending Topic from Debate
THE PHRASE now joins “Big Bird” and “binders of women.” The “horses and bayonets” line soon became the debate’s viral catchphrase, following “big bird,” “marlarkey” and “binders full of women” as the pull-out refrain that set the internet afire. The term followed the now-familiar routine of trending on Twitter (hashtag #horsesandbayonets), followed by a debate-inspired [...]
Winning the Debate, Losing the Media War
LET THE SPIN begin. What I warned was going to happen yesterday is in full bloom, because try as Obama might last night, Mitt Romney’s debate strategy assured he could slither away from being pegged as un-presidential by the president, because you only get one chance to make a first impression and that came in [...]
Top Story — In Stunning Reversal Romney Flips on Afghanistan: “Bring Our Troops Out by the End of 2014″ [Video]
“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And [...]
The Headline that Nails Romney’s Advantage, Obama’s Problem
THE REASON Obama’s debate win last night matters less is written in the Huffington Post headline. No real debate about drones. No real debate about Middle East policy. You like Israel? I do too and I’ll raise you a “no option off the table.” Your average American voter doesn’t make distinctions between Ahmadinejad’s pathological hatred [...]
Foreign Policy: Advantage Obama, Except on Fox [Video]
FOREIGN POLICY is the topic. It’s been President Obama’s strong suit, until a blast in Benghazi gave his opponents an opening, because what the average voter knows about the nuances of foreign policy and national security, which is where policy is made, could fit in a shot glass. As foreshadowing, Sean Hannity gave a teaser [...]
Media Spin Could Matter Most After Tonight’s Foreign Policy Debate
Nowhere is that situation more true than in all-important Ohio, where Obama clings to a 3-point margin heading into the third debate, according to a Democratic operative familiar with internal polling last week. …To Boston, it’s all about keeping the spirit of Denver alive. “My gut is that it’s likely to be decisive,” said one [...]
Foreign Policy Debate Monday, Obama Team Labels Romney Inexperienced & Irresponsible [Video]
TOUGH WEB ad from Team Obama, laying out the reasons Mitt Romney is not ready to be commander in chief.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Partisans Who are Killing this Country
CONGRESS IS a feckless chamber of Executive Branch fluffers, or if you’re in the minority, a hopeless group of obstructionists. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sadly becomes the example of the former, while yesterday I easily revealed Darrell Issa as the latter. The job of Congress isn’t to do either, but instead to represent the people over [...]
Wake Up America: Issa Dumps Docs, Endangers U.S. Allies in Libya, as CIA Confirms Rice
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U.S. government and placed their lives in danger when he released reams of State Department communications Friday, according to Obama administration officials. – Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy THIS IS an example of what happens when you have circus performers [...]
How Could Romney Blow the Libya Question? [Video]
LITIGATING LIBYA is all that’s left for Team Romney after Mitt Romney clearly blew his moment to hang the Obama administration’s contagion of fumbling responses around the President’s campaign. The only way you blow what you know is going to come up is by missing the foreshadowing of Secretary Clinton’s statement on taking “responsibility” for [...]
Top Story: Family Mutiny Creates Governor Mitt Shift and Last Chance
FOR THE entire primary season, Mitt Romney twisted himself into a political pretzel to be pure enough for the right wing base. It was a feat of wonder when you compared the man who was governor of Massachusetts. The general election audience was never going to buy wingnut Mitt and the family knew it. They [...]
Top Story: Mitt Romney Delivers Foreign Policy Doctrine at Virginia Military Institute [Remarks]
But beyond his critique of Mr. Obama as failing to project American strength abroad, Mr. Romney has yet to fill in many of the details of how he would conduct policy toward the rest of the world, or to resolve deep ideological rifts within the Republican Party and his own foreign policy team. It is [...]
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