June 28
The surprise handover of sovereignty in Iraq happened this morning at a pace matched only by the departure of Paul Bremer from the country.
The dramatic events also managed to knock off the front pages the news of the US Supreme Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees can use the US legal process to challenge their detention.
And the Bush team get no respite from Joe Klein in Time magazine.
...George W. Bush is facing a long, hot summer of investigations and exposes that will last deep into the campaign season, and last week, for the first time, a Gallup-CNN poll indicated that a majority of Americans think that the war in Iraq was a mistake. This is a difficult trajectory to turn around....
Elsewhere in the so-called War on Terror, the Washington Post quotes a former NSC staffer under Reagan as saying that one of the key planks of the Bush Doctrine - promoting Democracy - is "hanging by a sliver" in a context of worsening terrorism.
But is the terrorist situation really "worse"? According to the President on Irish TV the other day, not necessarily.
And the Irish people are still counting the cost of having Mr Bush and his entourage breeze through their country.
Jon Stewart was brilliantly entertaining on Larry King Live the other night. Here's a sample:
KING: What advice would you give [John Kerry] on who he should select to be his runningmate?
STEWART: What advice would I give?
...
STEWART: It doesn't matter.
KING: What do you mean it doesn't matter?
STEWART: It doesn't matter. Would you vote for vice president?
KING: Should I put...
STEWART: George Bush's father won with Dan Quayle. Tell me that's not an albatross. Was he trying to just like -- you know what I almost think that was, picking Dan Quayle? That was taunting the Democrats, that was saying, I can beat you with this knucklehead. I can beat you with this guy on my back.
I like Edwards.
...
STEWART: The thing about Edwards is, the only thing I worry about for Edwards is, he seems untainted by the political process and I believe it may crush his spirit. And that's the only thing they worry about for him.
After Nightline trailed the Kerry campaign the other night (Stewart on Kerry "He went off to the heartland to talk about healthcare and that's the last anyone's seen of him for about six weeks..."), Jodi Wilgoren in the Times looks at George Butler's as-yet-untitled biopic of the Democratic candidate.
She quotes ABC's Mark Halperin thus: "Never in my career have there been any films that have come out about that year's presidential campaign that have the potential to impact the presidential race........This year there are at least two."
One of them, "Fahrenheit 9/11",is breaking box office records for a documentary.
And finally - they know how to avoid electoral mishaps in Canada...
The surprise handover of sovereignty in Iraq happened this morning at a pace matched only by the departure of Paul Bremer from the country.
The dramatic events also managed to knock off the front pages the news of the US Supreme Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees can use the US legal process to challenge their detention.
And the Bush team get no respite from Joe Klein in Time magazine.
...George W. Bush is facing a long, hot summer of investigations and exposes that will last deep into the campaign season, and last week, for the first time, a Gallup-CNN poll indicated that a majority of Americans think that the war in Iraq was a mistake. This is a difficult trajectory to turn around....
Elsewhere in the so-called War on Terror, the Washington Post quotes a former NSC staffer under Reagan as saying that one of the key planks of the Bush Doctrine - promoting Democracy - is "hanging by a sliver" in a context of worsening terrorism.
But is the terrorist situation really "worse"? According to the President on Irish TV the other day, not necessarily.
And the Irish people are still counting the cost of having Mr Bush and his entourage breeze through their country.
Jon Stewart was brilliantly entertaining on Larry King Live the other night. Here's a sample:
KING: What advice would you give [John Kerry] on who he should select to be his runningmate?
STEWART: What advice would I give?
...
STEWART: It doesn't matter.
KING: What do you mean it doesn't matter?
STEWART: It doesn't matter. Would you vote for vice president?
KING: Should I put...
STEWART: George Bush's father won with Dan Quayle. Tell me that's not an albatross. Was he trying to just like -- you know what I almost think that was, picking Dan Quayle? That was taunting the Democrats, that was saying, I can beat you with this knucklehead. I can beat you with this guy on my back.
I like Edwards.
...
STEWART: The thing about Edwards is, the only thing I worry about for Edwards is, he seems untainted by the political process and I believe it may crush his spirit. And that's the only thing they worry about for him.
After Nightline trailed the Kerry campaign the other night (Stewart on Kerry "He went off to the heartland to talk about healthcare and that's the last anyone's seen of him for about six weeks..."), Jodi Wilgoren in the Times looks at George Butler's as-yet-untitled biopic of the Democratic candidate.
She quotes ABC's Mark Halperin thus: "Never in my career have there been any films that have come out about that year's presidential campaign that have the potential to impact the presidential race........This year there are at least two."
One of them, "Fahrenheit 9/11",is breaking box office records for a documentary.
And finally - they know how to avoid electoral mishaps in Canada...
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