What Books on America Has Sarah Palin Read- September 13, 2008 (Suffragist Susan B. Anthony) Despite the superficial celebration by some and criticism by others that George W. Bush says that he doesn't read many of America's leading papers, the 43rd President of the United States reads a great deal of quality work. Besides issuing occasional reading lists of what he is powering through, President Bush has impressed me on three significant occasions with regard to what he was reading. The first occurred in March 2001 when I learned that Bush had spent...http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/what_books_on_a/ TGIF: The Campaign Funnies, Fair and Balanced- September 12, 2008 Inspired by occasional TWN reader, George Stephanopoulos. . . First on the pro-McCain side: Moonbats dropping like flies from PDS epidemic It's America's newest disease - only diagnosed by some in the media a few days ago - but it is spreading among the nation's Beautiful People at an alarming rate. You know it by its initials - PDS. Palin Derangement Syndrome. You can watch the victims of PDS on TV every night, frothing at the mouth in front of Obama banners, repeating scurrilous lies...http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/tgif_the_campai/ The Holtz-Eakin Gap- September 12, 2008 Douglas Holtz-Eakin was introduced to me years ago at a dinner of friends organized by Democrat and economic wunderkind Adam Posen who is a senior staff member at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. I liked him instantly and still do. I say that hesitantly because too much blog-hugging from TWN can hurt the perceived legitimacy of people on the right and the left that I have supported and endorsed in the past. I once tried to help R. Nicholas Burns out in a possible bid...http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/the_holtzeakin/ McCain: I Don't Need On the Job Training Like Short-Term Mayors and Governors- September 12, 2008 By John McCain's defense of his own credentials and experience in the Republican presidential debates, one can't help but wonder how he thinks that Sarah Palin would be ready to step into his shoes should something happen to him. John McCain said during the Republican debates: I have had a strong and long relationship on national security. I have been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut. I understand the issues. I understand and appreciate the...http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/mccain_i/ Why Are We Not Appealing to the Vanity of Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri- September 12, 2008 I just read a passage written by Peter Bergen, my colleague at the New America Foundation and a contributor to Anderson Cooper's AC360. Bergen, who has been the lead chronicler of the iconic Islamic terrorist now joined by my other colleague Steve Coll who recently authored The Bin Ladens, says little new in his commentary on the "long, fruitless hunt for Bin Laden" that he hasn't said before. He does reflect on the seeming disregard bin Laden has for either his much discussed health...http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/why_are_we_not/ |