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'O: A Presidential Novel' by Anonymous: Credit Where Credit is Due
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAs my colleague Jill Lawrence reports, a book titled "O: A Presidential Novel" has recently been released by Simon & Schuster and, though reviews so far are tepid, the undisclosed identity of the novelist has captured the short attention span of the political press. Appealing to the clubby insider sensibility of National Press Club members, the publisher, Jonathan Karp, kicked off a sly inside-the-Beltway guessing game by suggesting "it would be great" if possible suspects "refrained from commenting" on their non-authorship, in "solidarity with the principle that a book should be judged on ...
'O: A Presidential Novel' -- By Anonymous, Starring Obama and 'Self-Obsessive' D.C.
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyA new story of O has arrived on some capital doorsteps, including mine. "O: A Presidential Novel," is a fictional – or is it non-fiction? – account of the Obama White House and the upcoming 2012 campaign by an author named "Anonymous." Yes, it's another who-wrote-it mystery. "What can I tell you about the author of O? Very little," teases Simon & Schuster Executive Vice President and Publisher Jonathan Karp in a letter to readers. "The author is someone who has been in the room with Barack Obama and knows this world intimately." Whether Karp's "room" is the Oval Office or a vast ...
Is Obama's Iran Strategy Working?
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- President Barack Obama came into office planning a two-track strategy on Iran: The promise of high-level political engagement combined with tough economic sanctions. His plan was that the sanctions would deter bad behavior -- specifically, the ongoing nuclear program -- while the potential for engagement would encourage good behavior. Has it worked? Yes and no, Obama told a recent gathering of national security reporters. Here's what he said and how observers are parsing his successes and failures on Iran. Is Time Right for Engagement? The Washington Post's David Ignatius writes, ...
McChrystal Offered to Resign? General Says 'You Know Better Than That'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyUpon this arrival at the Pentagon today -- ahead of an all-important, career-deciding meeting with President Obama -- General Stanley McChrystal promptly squashed reports that he had offered his resignation as commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. "Come on, you know better than that," he was quoted by NBC News, via MSNBC. "No!" McChrystal is scheduled to meet with the President later today to decide his future under the Obama Administration following the explosive Rolling Stone profile of the general posted online yesterday, in which he and aids trash talk White House ...
McChrystal Offers Resignation: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyGen. Stanley McChrystal is reported to have offered his resignation to the president, after a long day filled with criticism and controversy caused by a candid new Rolling Stone magazine profile posted online this morning. The article includes quotes by McChrystal and his closest aides disparaging members of the Obama administration. Now it's up to the president to decide whether the apparently insubordinate but apologetic McChrystal will be allowed to keep his job as commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan or whether he will be ushered out and replaced with someone else. ...
General Stanley McChrystal Tenders Resignation
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCiting an unnamed source, Time magazine's Joe Klein reported on CNN that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has officially offered his resignation to President Barack Obama. CBS News later confirmed that McChrystal offered Obama a letter of resignation, and ABC's Jake Tapper reports that Obama will meet with McChrystal on Wednesday before deciding the general's fate. McChrystal finds himself in hot water after criticizing Obama and several members of his administration in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine over their handling of the Afghan war ...
Sarah Palin Hits New Low in Poll
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 11) -- Just when she starts to hear warm words from some unlikely quarters, a new survey reveals cold, hard statistics about the public's view of Sarah Palin. After days of jokes about her palm reading at the Tea Party convention last Saturday, no less than Washington Post columnist David Broder -- who's been called the dean of the Washington press corps -- praised her "pitch-perfect populism." Broder said in an op-ed today that he's impressed by "a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself, even with notes on her palm." Also today, Time magazine's Joe Klein -- who ...
John McCain's Dishonorable Campaign
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs I pointed out back in August, John McCain once uttered the following words:"Negative ads move numbers, they may, but do we have to go to the lowest common denominator? I don't think so."The implication was that McCain, being a man of honor, would not stoop to negative attack ads. As with his often repeated pledge to run an "honorable campaign," McCain essentially lied to the American public. The blizzard of attack ads put forth in recent days shows a calculated strategy to distort facts, distract the public with falsehoods, and play to that lowest common denominator lurking inside of us ...
The Evil of Two Lessers
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith every passing election, Americans reaffirm a basic truth about the inherent nature of those who seek higher office: politicians lie to get elected. In fact, it is something of a bedrock assumption that to rise in the ranks of the politically powerful, one must, by definition, be untrustworthy. Hence the dictum: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Indeed, the race for president might be viewed as a competition to see who can tell the more convincing lies about his or her opponent. This might come as crushing news to idealistic followers of Barack Obama or John McCain (and, ...
Has McCain Lost His Media Touch?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs you know, when it comes to media love, one day you're in, and the next, you're out. So it must seem to perennial Project White House contestant John McCain, the media darling of the 2000 presidential election, who, despite a heartfelt bond with the Washington press corps, could not quite parlay his "Maverick" title into a runway stroll to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Eight years older and deeper in debt, the media and the country at large have shifted their spotlight away from McCain and found Barack Obama, the next big thing in political fashion. That's how the story goes, anyway. But are ...
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