As expected, the press has gotten advanced excerpts from President’ Obama’s upcoming speech on his plan for Afghanistan, which he will officially announce tonight in a televised address from West Point at 8 ET. CNN has snips from the speech, and the Guardian is liveblogging the unveiling of the plan and the media reports surrounding it.
Like we didn’t see this one coming, right?
One thing none of us will be “thankful” for this Thanksgiving week? The fact that two of the biggest major mainstream news media outlets continue to be deeply in the tank for our celebrity President. Check the headlines today at the NYT:
McClatchy reports that the Commander in Chief of the US military has finally made a decision on whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan, and will officially announce his decision next Tuesday (probably in a primetime address to the nation):
