Tuesday Open Thread
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Obama: Our “hero”!
Golly gee – after seeing how an image of President Obama on the WH’s website was named, in part, “hero” for his “heroic” efforts on lifting the Bush-era limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, after reading his tribute to the late actor Christopher Reeve – who John Edwards once famously assured voters would “walk again” if he and John Kerry were elected in 2004, and after reading the mainstream media’s gushing praise for The One on his “rebuke” of President Bush, gosh darn it I just feel warm and fuzzy all over!
24 – 8pm til 9pm open thread
The nailbiting starts in 10 minutes …
NYT confirms that the attacks on Rush were “explicitly authorized” by the WH
– specifically senior advisor David Axelrod, the “Karl Rove” of the Obama administration. Money quote:
Rebuttals to the “Chas Freeman is a realist” arguments
Over the last few weeks, an intense debate has developed in (mainly) punditocracy and blogosphere circles over the Obama administration’s choice of Chas Freeman as head of the NIC. This pick was atrocious for a number of reasons discussed here. Unsurprisingly, it was reported last week that the vetting process did not happen on Chas Freeman until after he had been offered and accepted the position and after it was announced publicly by Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence. Blair had – according to his spokeswoman – not notified the Obama administration before he made the announcement of the selection of Freeman, which implies that the Obama administration would have had him more thoroughly vetted had they known of his selection – and we know how thorough the “vetting” process is for Obama admin picks, right?
Will Chris Dodd pay a political price for his role in our economic downturn?
It’s still too early to be able to make a definitive statement one way or the other (he won’t be up for re-election til next year), but as it stands now, things aren’t looking too good for the CT Senator: