The Europes: They Love Me Right Back!
May 19, 2008 at 7:55 pm | In Main Blog | 1 CommentTags: Budapest, Dmitry Medvedev, Prague, President Bush, Vladimir Putin
So here are pics from The Europes, at long last. The welcome mat for SoojieBear and me you see above was mere feet? meters? feet? from our hotel in Budapest. A lovely, lovely city, BTW.
More pictorial fun after the jump.
Horserace ‘08: Obi-Wan McCain
May 16, 2008 at 4:36 pm | In Horserace '08 | Leave a CommentTags: appeasers, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, President Bush
This week we contend with the return of “appeasers” to the national debate, wonder aloud if President Bush has actually done Barack Obama a favor, and give props to John McCain for navigating a treacherous political environment for the GOP.
Listen to this week’s roundtable here.
McCain Delivers Economic Speech. Sort Of.
March 25, 2008 at 2:29 pm | In John McCain, Our Crappy Economy, WH '08 | 1 CommentTags: Barack Obama, economy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, President Bush
After jaunting off to the Middle East/Europe on a little-noticed trip to bolster his foreign policy cred, John McCain is acceding to the political reality that all most voters want to hear about now is the economy. He delivered what was billed as a big-deal address on the economy — his first since the downturn — but if voters were looking for clues as to how he would specifically address the housing/credit crisis, they didn’t get many.
That’s because McCain himself admitted that he doesn’t have answers yet. The address was designed to assure supporters that he isn’t solely obsessed with Iraq, and that he’s actually paying attention to the economy. As pocketbook issues overtake pretty much everything else among voter concerns, his trip abroad last week couldn’t have been timed worse.
Speaking in Santa Ana, Calif., McCain acknowledged that the current fiscal crisis is leaving “many Americans feeling both concerned and angry.”
“The motivation and behaviors that caused the current crisis are not terribly complicated, even though the alphabet soup of financial crises are terribly complex,” McCain said, in what was a recurring theme of the address. Continue reading McCain Delivers Economic Speech. Sort Of….
George W. Bush’s Presidency, In Song
March 14, 2008 at 10:41 am | In Media, President Bush | Leave a CommentTags: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Harriet Miers, Katrina, President Bush
I can’t tell if this is funny or sad or what.
That’s President Bush serenading the crowd at the Gridiron Club spring dinner — one of those annual press corps-politician love-ins this town gets so goofy about. I enjoy watching Bush do his self-deprecating shtick as much as anyone else. Can’t lie: I find his impishness to be charming on most occasions. Obviously, Bush’s exit is time for us all to look back on his fun-filled tenure, which, whatever your opinion of him, was never, ever boring. Continue reading George W. Bush’s Presidency, In Song…
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