Sunday, January 25, 2009
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TV Me
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Posted by:
Amanda Carpenter at
7:34 AM
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I'll be on CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz this morning to talk about all kinds of media fun this week: Inauguration coverage, Blagojevich, Gitmo and whatever else might pop up!
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In the middle of Evan Thomas' insidery campaign book, A Long Time Coming, there is a section on early conflict between John McCain and Barack Obama in the Senate, even before Obama was openly running for president. I thought this bit was interesting for more than one reason:
Obama further aliented McCain on the immigration issue. McCain took great political risks on immigration, defying the GOP faithful who wanted to build a wall across the Mexican border and arrest and detain illegal immigrants. Working with Ted Kennedy and a bipartisan group, McCain came up with compromise legislation to create a guest-worker program. Obama asked to join the group. The senators agreed to hang together to vote against amendments from both the right and the left. Some very conservative senators honored the agreement, voting against conservative amendments -- but Obama did not, voting in favor of a number of liberal amendments. After one meeting, Kennedy chewed Obama out for his fickleness. (Months later, asked by a colleague why he had endorsed Obama for president, Kennedy gave a one-word answer: "Caroline.")
Without reading too much into this anecdote, on immigration, at least, Barack Obama took care of his base and John McCain did not, and his base included Caroline Kennedy. She must indeed be a little bitter about now.
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2009/01/john-and-ted-and-caro line.html
Sweet Princess Caroline, under the bus! The Kennedys are going to war! http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/01/25/kennedy_famil y_furious_with_paterson.html |
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Meanwhile with friends like this:
Freep.com: You don’t think there is a distinction between domestic bombings … that hurt real people, and John McCain executing a mission over North Vietnam? Is there any difference in kind between those two acts?
Ayers: There is no difference in kind between killing of any human being. Any killing of any human being is a universe lost. Let’s be clear.
If we sat on a stage with Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, John McCain, John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, me and whoever else you want to put up there … George Bush. And then you could measure responsibility. And I’d be happy in that context and that company.
Freep.com: They are more guilty than you are?
Ayers: You think so? That’s what I’d love to see. Henry Kissinger is responsible for the death of millions. I’m responsible for the death of no one. Does that distinction not seem to matter? In other words, why am I held up as an example of something beyond the pale. Whereas Kissinger, hey it was normal. He was the secretary of state ... Yeah, he was the secretary of state overseeing an illegal, immoral, genocidal attack on civilians. That is terrorism, pure and simple.
Freep.com: Is there any difference in your view between that action and 2003-09 in Iraq?
Ayers: No.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090125/NEWS07/90125027/Ayers +denies+knowledge+of+70+s+plot+to+blow+up+Detroit+police+fa cilities |
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