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My Democratic Message

By AmericanDreamer on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 1:09pm |
The Dems will not agree on a single national message. At least if they have, I haven't heard it. So I am free to select my own. It's a formidable challenge. There are way too many targets and sources of...

David Broder, cont.

By AmericanDreamer on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 12:46pm |
As I work around the corner from the Washington Post offices in DC, I took the liberty of purchasing a copy of Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson's fabulous Off Center and leaving a copy for David Broder at the Post's...

Carville and Begala, Zinging Them on Military Service

By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 09/15/2006 - 12:00pm |
I'm halfway into Carville and Begala's latest, Take it Back. This from pages 132-33, in connection with their discussion about how to help with military recruitment: "But, let's face it, has-been pop stars and never-was country singers are not going...

David Broder, Getting it Wrong Again

By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 08/10/2006 - 4:23pm |
From his column in today's Post: "In the primary, Lamont found his most prominent support on the far-left flank of the Democratic Party. His organization was a hand-me-down from the Howard Dean presidential campaign, bolstered by a blizzard of Internet...

Which Iraq?

By AmericanDreamer on Mon, 08/07/2006 - 4:43pm |
This past weekend's Washington Post Book World contains reviews of two books on Iraq. I am struck by contrasting accounts of the relationship between Sunni and Shia Iraqis prior to the war in these two reviews. One review is of...

Time Person of the Year

By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 08/01/2006 - 3:31pm |
If I had a vote for Time magazine Person of the Year and they picked the winner today, I would vote for Al Gore. Call it "Revenge of the Nerd" or whatever you want. Our times demand serious people who...

Sound-bite version of Bush Administration policy on North Korean nukes

By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 07/12/2006 - 1:55am |
"Let's demonstrate our toughness by refusing to talk to them, say out loud as though we really, really mean it (but not to the North Koreans, of course) that we mean business about them not making nukes, hold our nose,...

The Fog of War, the book

By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 07/11/2006 - 3:47pm |
I am just finishing up the book The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Including excerpts from documents declassified during the 1990s and earlier this decade, it was edited and written by James G. Blight...

The Spinning of Lieberman-Lamont

By AmericanDreamer on Sun, 07/09/2006 - 12:06pm |
Steven Clemons http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ has a piece at his site noting a July 6 LA Times lead editorial headlined "Purging Antiwar Democrats". He titles his entry "Purging Pro-Iraq War Democrats" and says: "First of all, editorialists should stop referring to everyone...

Using the "N" Word on National Security

By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 07/05/2006 - 12:42pm |
The Republican strategy for trying to hold the Congress seems transparent enough: repeat, as often as possible, the words "Democrats cut and run" as often as possible. Versions of this strategy have worked before. It could work again. Rather than...

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