You Have to Try

David Brooks asks:
We’re about to enter our 19th consecutive year of Truman-envy. Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, people have looked at the way Harry Truman, George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson and others created forward-looking global institutions after World War II, and they’ve asked: Why can’t we rally that kind of international cooperation to confront [...]

Not a Timeline, but Sounding a lot like Obama

TUCSON, July 18 – President Bush and Iraq’s prime minister have agreed to set a “time horizon” for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq as security conditions in the war-ravaged nation continue to improve, White House officials said here Friday.
The agreement, reached during a video conference Thursday between Bush and Prime Minister Nouri [...]

Engagement

On the heels of yesterday’s stunning announcement that a top State Department official would actually meet with Iranians, the Guardian has quite a bombshell:
The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush.
The Guardian has learned [...]

George Bush’s Gift to Obama

Obama, responding to Bush’s appeasement shot:
Well I want to be perfectly clear with George Bush and John McCain – if they want a debate about protecting the United States of America, that’s a debate I’m ready to win, because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.
“…in the Bush-McCain [...]

Why the Bush’s Third Term Message Works

Yesterday I posted on the Democrats attack that John McCain will just be serving out George Bush’s third term. Today, via MyDD, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt makes my point for me.
WOLF BLITZER: You just heard Congressman Van Hollen say that he represents a third Bush term. You know how unpopular the job approval numbers [...]

John McSame?

Patrick Ruffini thinks Democrats are making a big mistake in pushing the message that John McCain would effectively be George Bush’s third term.
The problem is that it runs counter to some deeply ingrained perceptions about McCain, the most transparently un-Bush candidate Republicans could have nominated. How does one overlook the fact that amongst Republican primary [...]