Old Europe Vs the New.

Interesting report from the New York Times:

TBILISI, Georgia — It was nearly 2 a.m. on Wednesday when President Nicolas Sarkozy of France announced he had accomplished what seemed virtually impossible: Persuading the leaders of Georgia and Russia to agree

(CNN) — A German magazine quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama

JERUSALEM —Washington Times-  Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to accept a Palestinian state within 1967 borders, but contradicted a statement by former President Jimmy Carter that it would accept Israel’s right to exist if that was the will of

• “If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.

So, Jimmy Carter is going to Syria to meet with Hamas?

Cute.

Does anyone remember how there was a little nonsense form the Democrats who were spreading the SR71 Blackbird rumor? Where GHW Bush had suppsoedly gone to Iran

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

Former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power was resigned from the Obama campaign for calling Mrs. Clinton a monster.

Given, the Ciintons campaigned on a promise that a vote for one would get two and Mrs. Clinton has claimed foreign policy

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have looked in the mirror and saw a monster. Gerri Peev, Scotsman:

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a “monster” by one of Barack Obama’s top advisers, as the gloves come off in the

Mrs. Clinton bomb, bombs, Hotline:

It was, in this reporter’s opinion, the most interesting moment in today’s Clinton campaign phoner with reporters. Responding to the release of HRC’s new TX TV ad, which asserts in no subtle terms

Yesterday, David gave the Snark of the Day award to Vladimir Putin… and justifiably so, for his comment on Hillary Clinton:

“At a minimum, a head of state should have a head.”

Humor, of course, has to have a grain

The weather outside is frightful.   Good day to be a duck.

Mitt Romney:   I voted for Mitt.  He would make a good president.   Sad to say, Romney is just one horrible candidate, a modern day Jack Kemp.   Romney has won

Christopher Hayes, in Nation, writes of “Return of the Swift Boater:”

More than three years after John Kerry’s bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the

1. Did Marc Ambinder, Atlantic, really mean to write “If Huckabee only had a brain?”

INDIANOLA, IOWA — A string of foreign policy gaffes has made it clear to the national political press corps that Mike Huckabee is manifestly unqualified

Is Ron Paul a nazi?   Well some of Paul’s well embraced supporters are.   Virginia Heffernan, New York Times,  describes Paul’s “nazi  troubles:“

Ron Paul, our Internet president, seems to have Nazi troubles, as in they’re saying he’s

Ron Paul, as you may know…particularly if you’ve been reading here, was on Meet the Press yesterday. Now I doubtless will be getting reaction from the Paulettes, as I do every freakin’ time I bring the subject up…. reaction not