December 28, 2007 – 1:18 am
It is clear that in Iowa, the debate is not about experience. It will be a fight between Mitt Romney’s money and Mike Huckabee’s churches. There are real doubts that Huckabee can sustain a challenge to any mainstream GOP candidate. Ultimately, his foreign policy and other flubs might create real problems. One imagines the pressure […]
December 27, 2007 – 10:35 am
Imagine what would happen if this happened on the first day of a Barack Obama or a Mitt Romney presidency, from the New York Times:
An attack on a political rally killed the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto near the capital, Islamabad, Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto was fired upon at close range before the blast, […]
December 19, 2007 – 11:38 pm
UPDATE: My friend Erick at Redstate makes the same point.
Today, John McCain got some press for stating, as a number of people had already, that David Petraeus should be Time’s Man of the Year, not Vladimir Putin. He is transparently correct.
But there is a broader point that should be made in the context of the […]
November 27, 2007 – 11:27 am
We might have just found the issue and story that crystalizes the anxieties of all Americans around a protectionist message. The story is:
Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi to replenish capital after record mortgage losses wiped out almost half its market value. … […]
November 13, 2007 – 5:41 pm
Today, John Bolton spoke to Rob Bluey’s and Heritage’s Conservative Blogger Lunch. Allegedly, we were talking about Bolton’s new book. Rather than focus on the book, Bolton urged us to make foreign policy an issue in 2008 and then took questions.
I asked two sets of questions, one about the race for UN Secretary General, the […]
October 18, 2007 – 2:44 pm
Today, Governor Mitt Romney called for the US to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council. According to the AP:
"The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. "We should withdraw from the United […]
October 10, 2007 – 11:42 am
Democratic Congresional leaders campaign against trade in Latin America. Appalling.
Tags: Congress, Democrats, International, Trade
October 10, 2007 – 11:23 am
The Democrats talk about restoring America’s role in the world. Hillary Clinton, in particular, talks about her ability to do so. Of course, for all of her husband’s post-White House international fame, it is worth remembering how low his international reputation was. This was a guy who used his veto of a UN Secretary-General as […]
October 5, 2007 – 9:32 am
Senator Thune introduced John McCain at the Americans for Prosperity reception last night.
I thought it was a very good introduction. It highlighted McCain’s record as a anti-spending guy. Thune calls him the "lobbyist for the taxpayer" in contrast to the "lobbyist for the spending groups."
He also makes the point that McCain is taken seriously by […]
September 26, 2007 – 5:43 pm
This weekend, I was an attendee at the European Ideas Network, an annual 3 day seminar of center-right European politicians, think tankers, academics, and business leaders. There were sessions about a huge range of topics. I can’t imagine a similar forum in the states in either party.
One of the speakers was Lech Wałęsa, the former […]
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