Political Cortex

by CODY LYON Instead, they dutifully watched as the hip young "it" girls and boys...

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Political Cortex

Yesterday, May 31, Barack Obama criticized John McCain for his statement that the Iraq surge...

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Crooks and Liars

Watch out, Lou Dobbs. Max and the Marginalized have burritos and they’re not afraid to use them.

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this Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the passings of director-actor-producer Sidney Pollack, french fry magnate J.R. Simplot, actor Harvey Korman as well as 9 troop members in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, according to icasualties.org, brings the casualty count for Iraq to 4,397.  IBC reports 191 Iraqi civilian casualties this week.

Also, reported today, Gen. William E. Odom passed away: 

William E. Odom, 75, a retired Army lieutenant general who was a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations and who, in recent years, became a forceful critic of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died May 30 at his vacation home in Lincoln, Vt. [..]

He had a reputation as a military hard-liner who opposed any compromise with the Soviet Union, which made his vocal opposition to the current involvement in Iraq all the more cogent and surprising.

“Among senior military people, he was probably the first to consider the war in Iraq a misbegotten adventure,” Brzezinski said yesterday. “He believed that we’re just stoking hostility to the United States in that region and developing an opposition that cannot ...   more »

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Well, well, well, a Bush protest at Furman University. And he talks about of all things—redemption.

WaPo:

Delivering the final commencement address of his tenure, President Bush told supporters and protesters at Furman University here Saturday that he was far from “a model citizen” when he left college but that “it is never too late to recover and get back on track.”

How many jokes could be written about this?

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Although he received a warm welcome, Bush’s visit was preceded by controversy as more than 200 faculty and students signed a letter objecting to his policies on the Iraq war, detentions and other issues. A conservative group responded with its own, larger list of signatories, and said the protesters were being disrespectful of the presidency and of graduating seniors.

Several dozen protesters greeted Bush’s arrival outside the stadium Saturday, and a group of 14 faculty members stood during Bush’s speech while wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase “WE OBJECT.”

Bush made a joking reference to the protests, telling the audience: “I, too, am a strong believer in free speech. And to ...   more »

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Since Scotty McClellan came out with his new book called “What Happened,” in which he was very harsh on President Bush over a host of issues including partisianship, the Iraq war and the Valerie Plame leak—there has been a very interesting response to it. It’s expected that the White House and the rest of the 28%ers would attach him as not qualified for the job, incompetent, a traitor, a phony and a kook, but I think the media has offered up some of the most informative opinions on him and in essence about themselves because he attacked on their war coverage. Martha Raddatz, ABC chief White House correspondent not surprisingly defends her coverage and then tells us something that I would have expected to come from the lips of from David Frum.

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RADDATZ: Yet, he seemed like a robot with a new software program on this one. I mean he was on message. It was just a very different message that he was — he was delivering.

Is he a Cylon or part of the Borg!

He’s not even human now. But she was never pressured to change ...   more »