By Joseph Wilson on Apr 17, 2008 in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, Foreign Aid, Foreign affairs, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, NATO, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., William Ayers | 47 Comments
Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted with express permission.
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Senator Obama’s ill-conceived remarks likening small town Americans to embittered guns-and-God bigots have triggered a justifiable furor. Not only are the remarks insulting, but also factually incorrect.
As it happens, at the same event in San Francisco, Senator Obama made other remarks, equally startling, insulting our Foreign Service, […]
By SusanUnPC on Dec 18, 2007 in Clinton, Foreign Aid, Health Care, Obama, Presidential Candidates, Women and Children | 29 Comments
[You can talk] to women — from the Philippines to Latin America to the Middle East — who can vote, own property, or go to school, because Hillary Clinton helped start a global women’s movement for women’s rights. [You can travel] to Africa and Asia, where Hillary Clinton visited countless remote villages to show how […]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 28, 2007 in Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Israel, Saudi Arabia | 36 Comments
UPDATE below: “US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq,” The Guardian
NYT:
WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the […]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 22, 2007 in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Iraq, Rice | 30 Comments
– Cartoon by Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sent to me by Leslie
Next, from McClatchy’s top article today, “Constant filibuster threat is tying Senate in knots“: