Friday Night OPEN Thread
By SusanUnPC on January 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM in Current Affairs, Presidential Candidates, State Department
UPDATE: Steve Clemons has written an important piece on the departure of the State Dept.’s Nicholas Burns, “Filling the Void After Nick Burns Departs: For Two Years, Burns was the Anti-Bolton to John Bolton’s Bolton. Snippet:
R. Nicholas “Nick” Burns is a stunningly effective diplomat. There is Dean Acheson DNA in the kind of work he does — but also a little John Foster Dulles. He is part Kennan and Scowcroft and also has the moral integrity of a Cyrus Vance. …
I happened to be on the US Airways shuttle flying back from New York to DC a while back — and Nick Burns was on the plane. … (Read all.)
So, which Republican is going to win South Carolina tomorrow? (TPM graph.)
One of Josh Marshall’s readers has an amusing take on Rudy Guiliani’s campaign, and his sure losses in South Carolina and Nevada: “[W]e are guaranteed at least another 10 days of increasingly hilarious self-deifying 9/11 exploitation…”
A pro-Obama 527 ad is running in Nevada “on Spanish-language radio in the state, criticizes Clinton for a lawsuit filed by some of her Nevada supporters that sought new restrictions workplace caucus sites this Saturday. The buy is allegedly being funded by the Unite Here Campaign Committee on behalf of the Culinary Workers Union, which has endorsed Obama,” reports CNN’s Political Ticker. John Edwards has attacked Obama and defended Clinton:
John Edwards was criticized by Obama in Iowa for not calling an independent group that supported the former North Carolina senator to demand they pull ads they were running in support of his candidacy. “When Sen. Obama says ‘turn the page,’ he obviously means turn to whatever page is most convenient. He loudly and repeatedly attacked independent ads by unions in Iowa as the product of special interests,” said Edwards Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince.
“But when a different outside group starts running ads on his behalf in Nevada, there’s not a peep from him or his campaign. It must be because he’s burning up the phone lines calling the head of Unite Here personally to demand he pulls the ads down right away.”
Politico has more: “Edwards rips Obama, defends Hillary.” Then there’s Obama’s gaffe, reported on CNN’s Situation Room this afternoon:
From Jessica Yellin’s report today on CNN’s Situation Room:
And Wolf, to add to all this Sen. Obama added to the back-and-forth just this afternoon. In an unusual move he actually named Sen. Clinton by name, taking a jab at her saying she copied a key part of his economic stimulus plan.
But the Clinton people — they’re howling at that saying she came out with an economic stimulus plan before Barack Obama.
And, as readers here know, Paul Krugman said the economic stimulus plans of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are far superior to that of Barack Obama.
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