DECEMBER 18, 2007
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Jumping Ship: [Amy
Lorentzen, AP]:
“On Tuesday, [Obama] brought out a group of policy advisers including Tony
Lake, a national security adviser to former President Clinton, and Susan Rice,
former assistant secretary of state for African Affairs under Clinton.”
Making Up For Lost Time:[Michael
Luo, The
New York Times]: “Mr. Romney is scheduled to make five appearances
across South Carolina today, hopscotching across the state with the help of
four different plane flights on a charter jet ... It is his first trip back to
the state since Nov. 9 and markedly different because of Mr. Huckabee’s ascendancy.”
Magic Touch: [Anne
E. Kornblut, The
Washington Post]: “With both her husband and basketball great Magic
Johnson at her side during a frenzied stop at the Hy-Vee grocery store, Hillary
Clinton finally got the question she had been waiting for: Did she feel she had
hit her stride during recent stops?”
Polls: [USA
Today/Gallup, National]: Giuliani 27, Huckabee 16, McCain 14, Thompson 14,
Romney 14; Clinton 46; Obama 27; Edwards 15. [Rasmussen,
South Carolina]: Clinton 33, Obama 33, Edwards
17.
Latest Romney Attack
Ad: [CNN]:
“In a new TV ad airing in Iowa, Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney stepped up his attacks on rival Mike
Huckabee, this time accusing the former Arkansas
governor of being soft on crime.”
--Ben Crair
7 comments
Lake, Rice: Spine post a-comin'. I can almost write it.
- teplukhin2you
December 18, 2007 at 5:39pm
teplukhin, he can't write about Lake in as angry terms as Zbig, though
- rozenson
December 19, 2007 at 1:58am
Obama wants Clinton's African advisers -- you mean the ones who told him to interfere with STOPPING the Rwanda genocide and lie about it later? Or the ones who did such a great job with Somalia? Given Obama's ultra-ironic apathy for the continent, maybe it makes sense after all.
- Lymon1
December 19, 2007 at 11:30am
Lymon, Africa is a nightmare, but with what army do we go in? And given what we've seen in Iraq, how exactly do we wage an effective war when we're dealing with animals?
The real humanitarian crisis, in my mind, is how we're failing to take in Iraqis who worked with Americans. Sweden, for God's sakes, is way ahead of us. What are we waiting for? What are we frightened of? That we'll be letting in extremists? These are people who risked their lives for us.
- MOLLYSIMON
December 19, 2007 at 11:52am
P.S. Lymon, as a Jew who can't believe how we turned our backs on Jews during the Holocaust, why not just let Darfurians in? Obviously, we can't absorb all of them, but maybe this is the most we can do. Utterly naive on my part, I'm sure.
- MOLLYSIMON
December 19, 2007 at 11:57am
Tep: I'd love to read your Spine parody. Even a headline!
- MOLLYSIMON
December 19, 2007 at 11:58am
Molly - I'll defer to Mr Yard on that, or maybe bone ill, adaglas, Dr Danny.
Bill, yt? Bone?
- teplukhin2you
December 19, 2007 at 1:21pm