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National: Donald Rumsfeld

January 18, 2009 - 06:22 am
NEWS FEED: Red State

Trade Diplomacy: Foundering

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So reports Daniel Ikenson. I disagree with the contention that Congress’s activities “whiff[] Rumsfeldian” because Donald Rumsfeld was a heck of a lot more adroit than the House Ways and Means Committee will ever be under current leadership in dealing with the international community on the issue of trade policy.

In any event, as Ikenson references, this is the kind of arrogant foreign policy-making that Barack Obama decried during the course of his Presidential campaign. We’ll see whether he’s serious about combating such arrogance or whether his jeremiads against this kind of behavior only apply when he is campaigning against Republicans.

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January 13, 2009 - 04:15 pm
NEWS FEED: Daily Kos

Newsweek Remains the Greatest Magazine of All Time

By LithiumCola

I guess Newsweek is trolling for readers. On their cover this week:

What Would Dick Do?

Why Obama may soon find virtue in Cheney's vision of power

Trolling for readers with outrageous cover stories is one thing. This cover story by Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas is something else. Charles Kaiser at Columbia Journalism Review quotes them and responds:

   The issue of torture is more complicated than it seems. America brought untold shame on itself with the abuses at Abu Ghraib. It’s likely that the take-the-gloves-off attitude of Cheney and his allies filtered down through the ranks, until untrained prison guards with sadistic tendencies were making sport with electric shock.

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Mon, 05/19/2008 - 09:00

Will McCain share convention stage with Bush and Cheney?

By James W. Pindell, Politicker.com Editor

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