The Moderate Voice: "Since Tuesday's election - generally seen as a debacle for the GOP in general and President George W. Bush in particular - there have been a host of articles suggesting that a resurgence of the political center is underway in American politics. And indeed, it would seem that a backlash may be underway against base-oriented and polarization politics."
Bill Richardson Blog: "Clearly, our good friends at Western Democrat are trying to overload us with great analysis that demands comment. Their most recent post, A Southwestern Strategy, is especially good, because it refines an idea I've suggested to Andrea a number of times: ticket reinforcement would work very well for Bill Richardson."
The Moderate Voice: "PS: The argument about underming the war was also used by LBJ during Vietnam - and it didn't help the war effort or LBJ one iota. It converted no one to his side. NOT a smart strategy but it will be cheered by people who already politically support the President, not just because of the war issue but because they SUPPORT HIM already and want to see him on the ascent. People who've backed the war but aren't in GOP partisans will be less impressed with this Veterans Day speech and will view it as a squandered opportunity to try to foster national unity amid growing division over the war. And, we suspect, in coming years most non-GOP news analysts and historians will, too."
Blogs for Bush: "For the longest time we on the right have been wondering when President Bush was going to come out swinging against his critics on the war. As time has progressed and our victory in Iraq become more manifest, the drumbeat of leftwing lies and slanders about the war has merely grown louder and more strident. The endless shriek of leftwing lies have become more and more echoed in the MSM and in the senior leadership of the Democratic Party - to listen to the critics, the liberation of Iraq was begun with no justification whatsoever and has been an unmitigated failure from start to finish. President Bush, in his speech earlier today, finally answered these critics directly."
Washington Post: "The administration's overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and very few members of Congress from either party were skeptical about this belief before the war began in 2003. Indeed, top lawmakers in both parties were emphatic and certain in their public statements. But Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material. And the commissions cited by officials, though concluding that the administration did not pressure intelligence analysts to change their conclusions, were not authorized to determine whether the administration exaggerated or distorted those conclusions."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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