I will be slightly busy as we at the Portsmouth Herald are hosting a forum this afternoon on Iraq with Dem hopeful John Edwards. But behind the scenes -- and in a follow up segue to yesterday’s post -- Edwards has taken his fundamentalist view (stop the war at all costs) and unloaded on rival Barack Obama for being a hypocrite on the war by always voting for war funding. The attack, chronicled here by Sam Youngman of The Hill, has Edwards also accusing Obama of being a idea thief on the Iraq issue.
Extra points:
MCain doubter back on board. Courtesy of Jon Greenberg at New Hampshire Pulbic Radio and his Primary Place project in Exeter, there’s an excellent post by an Exeter Republican who has given Sen. John McCain another primary look. Read the submission here and get a glimpse into the thought process of a NH voter.
Can we stop with the Hillary cackle commentary? I mean it’s getting surreal how a few public laughs by Clinton recently has become a cottage industry for political reporters and pundits -- mostly as a way to twist in the knife. Blogger Jeralyn Merritt smells an establishment and sexist plot. Not sure I go that far -- after all the laughing outbursts seemed odd but then you or I would be laughing madly if we tried keeping to a campaign schedule -- but she makes an interesting case. Read more here.
Really, Fred? Knowing how to play to a primary audience, Fred Thompson raised a few eyebrows during a recent campaign stop in Iowa when he insisted there were WMDs in Iraq in 2003 but that we just haven’t found them. Thompson later had a script rewrite and said he meant to say that such weapons were used against the Kurds by Saddam Hussein (in 1988 when Saddam was an ally) and that the dictator had bad intentions and would have acted on those bad intentions had we not invaded. How do you like reason #987 for why we are stuck in Iraq?
Daily Link. My favorite campaign video of the season comes courtesy of the Obama campaign who had supporters read portions of his 2002 anti-war speech. It’s smart and inspired and caught my attention -- it also hammers home his point about experience not being the same as good judgment. See it here.
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