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Finger on the Button
Talking Points Memo — Reprinting an Andrew Sullivan post in its entirety ... The op-ed in today's WSJ by the McCain duo of Lieberman and Graham is far more important for this election, it seems to me, than parsing the dynamics of the Clinton-Obama marriage. What they are laying out in very clear terms is the agenda of a McCain presidency. The agenda is war and the threat of war - including what would be an end to cooperation with Russia on securing loose nuclear materials and sharing terror intelligence, in favor of a new cold war in defense of ... Moldova and Azerbaijan. ...

Is John McCain Too Reckless To Lead?
DownWithTyranny! — ... McCain. As McCain backers Lieberman and Miss Lindsey point out in today's Wall Street Journal Obama's goal of world cooperation and peace are virtually the opposite of McCain's vision of global anxiety and war. ...

Not Tear Gas Nor Baton Charge
Obsidian Wings — ... However, Andrew Sullivan is right to be concerned that when it comes to a potential McCain presidency, the safe harbor for the judgmental-set might be lost.  Not that this would deter them. When their advocacy leads to disaster, the moral stalwarts will just hide behind the ...

Bush with superior judgement
Newshoggers.com — ... Yet war supporters were safe to bask in their smug judgmentalism in the knowledge that even the Bush administration would not be so reckless.  However, Andrew Sullivan is right to be concerned that when it comes to a potential McCain presidency, the safe harbor for the judgmental-set might be lost. ...

"The Agenda Is War"
THE CUNNING REALIST — Andrew Sullivan: If the Democrats cannot adequately warn Americans of the dangers of a hotheaded temperament and uber-neo-con mindset in the White House for another four years, they deserve to lose. If Americans decide they want a ...

Putin and the Presidency
The American Scene — I want a president who is as formidable statesman as Vladimir Putin. Bush is, despite his admirable efforts in Iraq since the ’06 election, feckless by comparison. Putin is playing a different game — how does each move ricochet? How will each move shape the Europe of the 2020s or the 2030s? On foreign policy, I sometimes think Andrew and I live in parallel universes. Unlike Andrew and Matt, I was very impressed by the latest WSJ op-ed from Lieberman and Graham. Here is Andrew’s characterization of the ...