RNC Arrival
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Hurricane Gustav has thrown at least the first day of the Republican Convention into disarray. We report from St. Paul with the latest.
A Chat with Dahlia Lithwick
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: At Netroots Nation down in Austin two weeks ago, TPMtv caught up with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and picked her brain about just what post-Bush accountability means. Is it really all or nothing? Sweep it under the rug versus Nuremberg trials, or are there a lot more grey areas in just how we pick up the pieces. That, and what might be in store for the Supreme Court under a President McCain.
CNN: All Hail McDifferent!
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: See how CNN manages to get through a list of policies where Bush and McCain agree without mentioning Iraq or the War on Terror.
McCain's Social Security Bamboozle
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: One of the most entertaining things about the 2008 campaign has been watching John McCain embrace all of President Bush's policies and word game flimflams. And there's no better example than Social Security where McCain has not only adopted President Bush's proposal to phase out Social Security and replace it with private investment accounts he's even adopted Bush's word game bamboozlement to try to trick voters into thinking he doesn't...
Hey, Wha' Hoppened?
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In his bombshell new book, What Happened, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan lashes out at his old employer in a massive Bush-administration-wide bus-throwing-under. Better late than never? To assist Mr. McClellan with his big media sales push, we thought we might go back and revisit some of the lowlights from back when what he said actually mattered.
Sunday Show Roundup: Appeaser Teaser: Gen. Election Preview
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The general election matchup between John McCain and Barack Obama received a symbolic champagne bottle smash against the hull last week when President Bush implicitly attacked Barack Obama's foreign policy as appeasement during a speech in Jerusalem. Obama fired back, McCain jumped in, and the ship was off and sailing.
Hoping to score some foreign policy points before his presidency ends, Pres. Bush is off on a five-day romp of the Middle East beginning Tues., in order to strike a deal for the contours of a Palestinian state. The trip, which is centered around the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding, has many Mideast leaders scratching their heads, asking: "Why now?" From the NYT:
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is embroiled in a criminal investigation that threatens to cost him his job. The...
Sen. John McCain, who is in New Orleans today, said that he would have handled Katrina differently if he had been president. He was openly critical of the Bush administration. From the New York Times:
Mr. McCain, who was on the fourth day of a tour of America’s “forgotten places” to try to prove that he is a kinder, gentler Republican, ticked off a long list of mistakes: “There was unqualified people in charge, there was a total misreading of the dimensions of the disaster, there was a failure of...
Last night, Chris Bowers over at Talk Left asserted that Democrats should not argue over experience and that they should be focusing the campaign on judgment and ideology. He was commenting on an exchange between Obama and Hillary:
Obama on his choice for Vice President: "I think a lot of people assume that might be some kind of military thing to make me look more commander-in-chief-like. Ironically, this is an area -- foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and...
McCain's Achilles Heel
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: 100 years? 1,000 years? 10,000 years!?! Think what you want about who's being unfair, who should drop and the like in the primary race. The Democrats are missing a big opportunity to strike early at John McCain's Achilles heel -- his lockstep support for an extremely unpopular war. We lay out the key points in today's episode of TPMtv.
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