Sunday, September 07, 2003

This morning's News & Record was one of about three dozen papers across the country to run an alternative "Doonesbury" strip rather than the one originally distributed by Garry Trudeau. Here's what Greensboro missed. Update: lots of additional Doonesbury links via Romenesko, including one that says what a senior N&R editor emailed me this morning -- that something like 80% of the newspapers that carry the strip chose not to carry this one. 9:46:08 AM    comment []

"Bush is, as he himself might say, "misunderestimating" the resolve of the American public. I think a great many people understand the magnitude of this moment and are ready to sacrifice, to prove themselves a great generation if their leaders would point that way." In this morning's newspaper column, I argue that two years after 9/11, a big threat to our security is the attempt to fix Afghanistan and Iraq on the cheap. My feeling is that Americans would be willing to bear the real costs if Bush would lay out a new Marshall Plan. Maybe that's what he's going to say tonight. Or not. (I've made the argument before that public opinion is ahead of political rhetoric when it comes to the war.) 9:41:22 AM    comment []