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Key Players Hedge Their Bets as Afghan War Enters 10th Year
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Oct.6) -- The war in Afghanistan enters its 10th year Thursday with key players hedging their bets, uncertain whether the Obama administration is prepared to stay for the long haul, move quickly to exit an increasingly unpopular conflict, or something in between. Fearing that his Western allies may in the end abandon him, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has started to prepare his nation for a withdrawal of international forces by shoring up relations with neighboring Pakistan and reaching out to insurgents interested in reconciliation. Pakistan, America's nominal ally, says ...
Opinion: Time to Admit Afghan Strategy Isn't Working
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(June 23) -- The bombshell Rolling Stone article featuring disparaging quotes from Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff about civilian leaders has shaken official Washington over the past 24 hours. As it should. Their words demonstrate a breathtaking level of arrogance, poor judgment and behavior verging on formal insubordination. But there is a far more important takeaway from this episode: Increasingly, it appears that the president's strategy for success in Afghanistan simply is not working. In fact, the most important quote from the article might be the admission by a senior adviser to ...
My Talking Points Are Better Than Yours: A War of Spin Over Obama's Budget
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe White House and congressional Republicans essentially agree on national priorities of the moment: creating jobs and reining in the runaway deficit. But sharply diverging ideas on how best to accomplish those goals is fueling a spin war over President Obama's budget, which he says will help generate jobs and begin to curb the red ink, but Republicans say is simply another explosion of federal spending. Call it an outbreak of Dueling Talking Points. House Republican Leader John Boehner has released "10 Things Every American Should Know About President Obama's Budget." Not to be outdone, the ...
Democratic Proposal: Use Tea Party Talking Points to Make GOP Look Extreme
By David Sessions - Politics DailyLooking for a way to head off the electoral woes they fear in November, some Democrats are proposing a strategy to drive moderate Republican voters away from "extremist" Tea Partiers, Politico reports. A memo from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released Tuesday calls for Democrats to get Republicans on the record pandering to the energized right wing of their party. ...
Roto Strategy: Using Your Games Wisely
By Tom Lorenzo - AOL NewsThis post is in response to a question a reader posed regarding the "games played" strategy in roto leagues. For those who may not be familiar with what I'm talking about, most standard roto leagues mandate an 82 game 'cap' at each position. Which means, you are only allowed to have an active player in your point guard position for 82 games. You can use the games whenever you want, with whichever player you choose. But, once you hit the 82-game mark, be it in February or April, you can no longer start a player at the point guard position. This rule is put in place to keep owners from ...
Did Newspapers Fail the American Public?
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyUmair Haque, director of the Havas Media Lab, does not hold back in his blistering appraisal of the newspaper industry in his post, "The Nichepaper and the Failure of the Fourth Estate," on the Harvard Business Publishing site. He argues that nichepapers -- think Talking Points Memo and The HuffingtonPost -- are the 21st century expression of newspapers. The discussion is part of an earlier post about Haque's Nichepaper Manifesto, which tackles the controversial paid-content debate. In the Nichepaper Manifesto he writes: Journalists didn't make 20th century newspapers profitable -- readers ...
Republicans Want Obama To Fix the Economy, Healthcare, Education
By Dave - Politics DailyThis is a quick response to David Knowles' excellent article about what happens if Obama's plan for the economy actually works. In the conventional view, there are two real risks for the GOP. By opposing Obama, they risk that 1) Obama fixes the economy and his plans get wide credit. Or, 2) that the economy fixes itself, as it has been known to do from time to time, and then Obama benefits from fortunate timing. Politicians and pundits will of course wrangle about what happened.But that doesn't explain the GOP's opposition strategy. Are they gambling? I don't think so. Let's take a look at how ...
Will Obama Swing Back During Debate? Yes.
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyTonight's debate is a crucial one for both candidates, especially for John McCain. Although Obama has pitfalls to avoid, McCain stands to suffer a knockout blow if he performs poorly. With Obama's lead growing steadily, McCain could find himself on the wrong end of a high double-digit deficit by week's end, frenetically dodging the insertion of the proverbial fork. Prior to Saturday, this had already been a nasty campaign, and most observers lay the fetid, slimy wreath at McCain's feet. With Sarah Palin's reintroduction of discredited attacks on Obama's character, the issue of Team McCain's ...
Unleashing the Pit Bull
By Dave - Politics DailyFrom Bill Kristol at NYTimes.comWith respect to his campaign, McCain needs to liberate his running mate from the former Bush aides brought in to handle her - aides who seem to have succeeded in importing to the Palin campaign the trademark defensive crouch of the Bush White House. McCain picked Sarah Palin in part because she's a talented politician and communicator. He needs to free her to use her political talents and to communicate in her own voice.I'm told McCain recently expressed unhappiness with his staff's handling of Palin. On Sunday he dispatched his top aides Steve Schmidt and Rick ...
McCain Must Target Michigan and Ohio
By Dave - Politics DailyI love me a little election strategery, and Patrick Ruffini has a lot of it here. In particular what he finds is a very compelling argument that McCain could push Ohio and Michigan together as one superstate and winning both of them makes it very, very difficult for Obama to make up elsewhere. This suggests a McCain firewall in Virginia and Colorado, and to a lesser extent Florida, but that won't win it. Rather, the key to victory may lie in targeting Ohio-Michigan as a megastate and trying to shift both states 1-2 points in his direction by brute force. If he does this to tune of just 1%, ...
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