–updated below – bumped– “President Clinton helped create a model for individual responsibility and collective action through the Clinton Global Initiative and it is a model that all of us are going to be studying for a very long time.” — Barack Obama, President, United States of America As the Clinton Global Initiative kicks off, USA Today [...] [...more]
via Washington Post Clinton has been in Africa all week, her tour eventually taking her across seven countries, talking about trade, but also Somalia, that sliver on the “horn of Africa” you see on the map to the left, where it isn’t safe for Clinton to venture. What some are calling Obama’s Afghanistan. While the Washington [...] [...more]
This week’s podcast is up, also available through RSS and ITunes (and also the direct link). Great audio clips this week, helping to tell a wonderful tale of rescue and happy endings. Including Chris Matthews, who actually gave Bill Clinton his due (thus the flying pig). Went through the hot news, starting with Sotomayor, then [...] [...more]
–updated below– Originally posted at Huffington Post Yesterday was a pretty big day. The lives of two amazing journalists were saved, their families spared more emotional agony. It all started, as the New York Times reported it, after being arrested on March 17 near the North Korean border with China while reporting on human trafficking for [...] [...more]
“I want to thank President Bill Clinton — I had a chance to talk to him — for the extraordinary humanitarian effort that resulted in the release of the two journalists.” – Pres. Obama “Thirty hours ago, Una Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we could be sent [...] [...more]
–updated– “President Clinton has safely left North Korea with Laura Ling and Euna Lee.” – Clinton’s spokesperson Breaking news from multiple news sources that both U.S. journalists (video at the link) will leave with former President Clinton tonight. The pardons were announced by North Korea’s state-run news agency, The Associated Press reported. … .. The source, who [...] [...more]
–updated– TM UPDATE 4.4 @ 10:10: Nobody commands more respect around the globe than former President Bill Clinton, especially in North Korea. This is being proven out by the developing story that the North Koreans reportedly contacted the relatives of the girls to tell them they’d surrender the journalists to Bill Clinton, something that’s been in [...] [...more]
Hillary Clinton has broken into the news lately, today it’s surrounding the latest trading of insults salvo between the Secretary and North Korea’s Foreign Minister, which is rather amusing. At a meeting of southeast Asian nations in Phuket, Thailand, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman blasted Clinton for what he called a “spate of vulgar [...] [...more]
While Sanford was weeping, some other things passed through the information key hole. Elliott Abrams speaks, tagging Hillary as “wrong on settlements.” A rule of thumb I always use on Mr. Abrams is the more emphatic he is about something the more skeptical we should all be of it. This goes double on settlements. Read Marc [...] [...more]
–bumped & updated with Clinton video– North Korea has now made Iran look reasonable. With the release of Roxana Saberi, we had a good ending, but with a sentence on Laura Ling and Euna Lee harsher than expected, according to most reports, the only thing that will change the current dynamic is more direct negotiations. [...] [...more]
Michael Goldfarb doesn’t get that talking about striking North Korea’s nuclear sites is not exactly what any person would call productive strategy to be hawking on the Sunday shows. Yglesias makes another interesting point. Brit Hume chimes in that he’s all for it too, but that Obama likely won’t do it. This is the kind of back and [...] [...more]
North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. – Bloomberg Secretary Clinton weighed in this past hour: “North Korea has made a choice. It has chosen to violate [...] [...more]
Update: … North Korea’s detonation of a nuclear device is being taken more seriously by the international community than its long-range missile test of April 5, which Pyongyang defended as a satellite launch. Leaders of several countries, including the U.S., U.K., South Korea and Japan, immediately condemned Monday’s actions. President Barack Obama, in a statement, called [...] [...more]
Get a stupid answer. Rasmussen and Politico doing a tag team on North Korea. Rasmussen asks the question (h/t Democracy Arsenal), with Politico setting up Newt Gingrich pretty well in their “Voters back force in N. Korea” headline on the polling. In what seemed to be a swipe at the Obama administration’s response, he warned, [...] [...more]
North Korea’s launch is the backdrop, but in the conversation on nuclear proliferation this isn’t just about Netanyahu’s bluster, and Ahmadinejad’s ambitions in the face of little proof of manifestations as yet. It’s also about Russian loose nukes, as well as the underground market that Pakistan let run unchecked so long, the tensions [...] [...more]
