In the shameless promotion department: Read my Sunday Out on a Limb column in Seacoast Sunday and meet Capt. Joshua Denton, a University of New Hampshire grad and newly-planted Portsmouth resident who recently returned from a year-long tour in Iraq. Denton, who has joined untold numbers of fellow junior officers in leaving the Army in record numbers, has no shortage of ideas about the politics of the war, about what to do next, and why he considers the “support the troops” mantra by many politicians to be “insulting.” He also likes being here to witness first-hand our first-in-the-galaxy primary circus.
It seems appropriate that in a week when right-wing blowhard Rush Limbaugh lashed out against “phony soldiers,” those who have actually served in uniform (unlike the blowhard) and have turned against Bush’s war, I talked to Denton who gives lie to the nonsense spewed by Limbaugh and the rest of the know-nothing crowd.
Buffet thoughts:
While covering the MTV/MySpace event yesterday at UNH — and enjoying watching dem hopeful John Edwards answer an IM question from ‘LunarGoddess6B’ — I talked to Chris Cillizza, the writer and blogger for Washingtonpost.com, who was a co-moderator for the event. He seemed genuinely excited about the potential of events like this to draw younger voters into the political fray, to let them know that elections really matter.
He writes The Fix and today gives his assessment of the respective horse races — also check out his take on the MTV/MySpace forum.
Having as much trouble as me in figuring out the ebb and flow and general weirdness of the GOP presidential scramble? In my daily link, Roger Simon of Politico.com attempts to impose clarity onto fluid chaos.
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