On that note, I’d point out that Ronald Reagan ran to the right of President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination in 1976; and we in the mainstream all called Reagan an extremist. Reagan lost and we said, Good riddance….
Yesterday Bill Clinton smeared Obama by saying it would be great to have a general election between two people who love their country and are devoted to its interests, Hillary and McCain. Clinton is acting like Joe McCarthy, says a…
Yesterday the Israel Policy Forum called on Secretary Rice to “engage Hamas” so as to keep the peace process alive and protect American interests in the Middle East. The statement was evenhanded. It spoke of “deaths and suffering” on both…
Haaretz has an AP story saying that the guy who ran the prostitution ring that was former N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall has an Israeli passport. Seems he’s an Israeli. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger ordered Mark Brener, 62,…
I need to restrain my enthusiasm about Chris Matthews. He’s my go-to guy for politics, he’s both brilliant and streetsmart (though his self-indulgent streak–lately he’s been airing clips of his dancing on Ellen DeGeneres’s show, two nights in a row–is…
On March 8, Daniel Schorr commented on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” that Democrats always find a way not to get along. He then said (I was driving, not taking notes): As people used to say about Yassir Arafat, he never…
Yesterday I got a free, fancy breakfast and then a free fancy lunch from supporters of Israel. But the two approaches were very different and signal a fracture in American politics around the Middle East. Breakfast was at the Waldorf…
Tonight on “Hardball,” former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, a Republican, said he was for Obama because he was concerned about our “foreign entanglements.” And in this sense he was a true “conservative,” he said. Chris Matthews said, Hear hear….
For a while today Yahoo had Obama’s thoughts on the NCAA tournament as its top story. Even Obama trivia is great copy; he’s glamorous and surprising and goodlooking and a true leader. What with his electrifying speech on race the…