Confessions Of A Politics Geek

When travelers go to the airport, they know what kind of security to expect: luggage searches, metal detectors and shoe inspections.
It’s all part of our post 9-11 reality enforced by the Transportation Security Adminstration. But as CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports, thousands of travelers have complained that some of these screenings can become abusive [...]

In a move that is sure to confuse and scatter brain cells the Bush administration seems to be doing an about face. As you can see below in a snippet from today’s unsourced report from the Telegraph. Read The Telegraph’s report from last month that reports the US is “considering” diplomatic missions in Iran. Now of course Obama has [...]

Remember back a few months ago when McCain and his campaign were complaining that Obama had not visited Iraq, for that matter the world in general as a US Senator?  Well now his campaign is complaining Obama gets too much press coverage because the press will be following him on his trip abroad.
In every campaign, [...]

 
The conventional wisdom is that any day spent discussing national security is a good day for the McCain campaign. But Barack Obama’s team appears to believe Afghanistan is a winning issue for them.
Building on Tuesday’s news cycle, when the campaigns’ respective speeches on Afghanistan dominated headlines, the Obama camp organized an early morning conference call [...]

Buried deep in his Iraq speech today was a questionable line:
“I know how to win wars.”
Which war was that? I mean which one did he win?
He also said:
“Understand this: When I am commander -in-chief, there will be nowhere the terrorists can run, and nowhere they can hide.”
 

 
 McCain today expressed concern about Russia’s “reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.”
Earth to McCain, the country has not existed for 20 years!

Found this clever YouTube video that pokes fun at McCain’s lack of computer savvy. It will be interesting to see just how much of an issue this becomes as the election moves on. Al Gore was ridiculed about his words claiming to have invented the NET.  15 years later a candidate claims to know little [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).
Kucinich is expected to offer a “privileged resolution” this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether President Bush should be removed from office for lying to Congress and the [...]

July 14, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor NY Times
By BARACK OBAMA
CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for [...]