By Michael Scherer / Washington
So how is the White House hoping to avert an electoral catastrophe in November? One clue can be found coded in the attack ads now chewing up the airwaves in New England. “Who is Scott Brown really?” an ominous voiceover asks about the Republican candidate vying [...]
By Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON — It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts — that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls [...]
By MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI
MCLEAN, Va. — On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy, former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with the Taliban if they think the United States is heading for the [...]
ByJoe Conason
From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged “Obama’s War,” and perhaps that is fair enough given the president’s many endorsements of what he has called a war of necessity. It would be much less fair, however, to ignore the events that led us to this moment, when whatever choice he makes [...]
Chemistry between Biden and Obama has worked better than expected
WASHINGTON – Early in the 2008 campaign, when high hopes hadn’t given way to harsh realities, presidential candidate Joe Biden told his wife Jill, “I can picture myself sitting in the Oval Office. I can picture who I’d pick up the phone and call.”
It turns out [...]
The right is calling Obama weak, but his wily foreign policy is paying off
The spluttering of the American right — and some European conservatives — over Barack Obama’s foreign policy reached a new level of vituperation last week. “Is Obama naive?” pondered Michael Ledeen at National Review. “I don’t think so. I think that he [...]
By CHARLES M. BLOW
This was conservatives’ seething summer of discontent and unhinged hysteria: town halls, tea parties and tirades. They captured headlines and gained momentum. Misinformation ran amuck. President Obama’s approval ratings tumbled. Through it all, Obama maintained a Pollyannaish, laissez-faire disposition. Some found this worrisome. Others, like me, even thought it weak. But maybe [...]
By Tony Romm
Seven former CIA chiefs on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt its investigation of the agency’s interrogation methods, predicting the latest inquiry would only foster “an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy.”
The retired agency heads — John Deutch, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, James R. Schlesinger, George Tenet, William Webster and R. James Woolsey — [...]
By: Tony Blankley
“President George W. Bush kept us safe from further terrorist attacks.” Few presidential claims have been less persuasive to the public than that. Yet after Sept. 11, most Americans thought, “It’s not a question of whether, but when.” We would have been grateful if we had known at the time that there [...]
By Christopher Hayes
Though these words echo his famous endorsement of working “the dark side” in order to triumph in the “war on terror,” they were not, in fact, written by Dick Cheney. They come from the Doolittle Report, which was commissioned by President Eisenhower in 1954 to craft an intelligence strategy for winning the cold [...]
