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Oklahoma and Chuck Hagel
The Washington Note —
I'm in Oklahoma today -- returning to D.C. on Monday.
I paid $2.11 a gallon for gas in Bartlesville in fact. It was $2.36 in Centreville, Maryland on Saturday -- and $2.94 in D.C.
I just received this extensive profile by the New Yorker's Connie Bruck on Senator Chuck Hagel.
I haven't read it yet -- but you bet I will in the morning. But TWN readers in Japan and Australia can get a head start on me -- and the many insomniacs who read this blog.
Congrats to all those who raced in today's Marine Corps Marathon in Washington. ...
Hagel on McCain and Russia
Matthew Yglesias —
... Connie Bruck takes a look at Chuck Hagel’s steady alienation from the GOP national security mainstream. Iraq, of course, played a big role but apparently in was John McCain’s decision that he wanted to take neocon policy and start applying it to great powers like Russia that was really the last straw: ...
Hagel: Palin is the ‘thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.’
Think Progress —
... to be president of the United States.” In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Hagel went even further, saying that he doesn’t believe Palin is “qualified to be President of the United States“: ...
Hagel: Palin is Least Qualified VP Candidate in History
News —
... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the thinnest resume of any candidate for Vice President in the history ot the United States, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) said in an interview published this week. “The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is—and I don’t think John [McCain] made a very good selection,” Hagel told the New Yorker magazine in a wide-ranging profile published in its November 3 issue. “There is no question that this candidate is arguably the thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.” Hagel directed harsh words ...
Hagel: Palin unqualified to be president
Politico Live's Blogs —
... Retiring Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel delivered a scathing indictment of the McCain-Palin campaign in a recent interview with The New Yorker. ...
The Repulican's Robocall
democracyarsenal.org —
... Chuck Hagel says in an interview,
The Bush administration and John McCain’s approach to Russia, saying
“I just don’t think that that’s a smart way to handle this. We’ve got
to be very careful that we don’t misplay all this and unwind some of
the progress we’ve made and go back, intentionally or unintentionally,
to another form of a Cold War. We’re going to have differences, of
course. But you have to look at where the common interests are.” “Today
we are all Georgians. That’s an interesting thing to say, but I’m not
sure what John means by that. Is he willing to put ...
Quote For The Day II
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... “I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States. The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is—and I don’t think John made a very good selection," - Senator Chuck Hagel. ...
Monday Night Endorsement Update
DownWithTyranny! —
... One Republican who still hasn't come out for Obama-- and probably won't-- is one of the most respected colleagues of John McCain's in the Senate-- and the real war hero that McCain alsways tried so hard to paint himself, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. Hagel's wife has donated to the Obama campaign and Hagel has pointedly refused to endorse his old pal McCain. This week's New Yorker published a Connie Bruck feature. ...
GOP Senator: Palin not qualified to be president, "thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
New Yorker: Hagel may be the only senior Republican elected official who has publicly criticized McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. “I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States,” Hagel told me. “The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is—and I don’t think John made a very good selection.” He scoffed at McCain’s attempts to portray her as an experienced politician. “To try to make the excuse that she looks out her window and sees Russia—and that she’s ...
David Quigg: Why Won't Palin Ask Obama Why He Hates Everything That's Good and Loves Everything That's Bad?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... We've come to count on her for this sort of thing. When Republican Senator Chuck Hagel describes Palin as being "arguably the thinnest-resume candidate for Vice-President in the history of America," she's supposed to be the sort of politician who can bat her lashes and make us think Hagel was just complimenting her svelte, girlish figure. ...
the chuck stops here
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... the must read article of the week, connie bruck's new yorker article on hagel - odd man out; chuck hagel's republican exile. ...
Election 08: The Palin Problem
The Nation: Top Stories —
... a good thing." It's a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus. Ouch. If McCain had properly vetted Palin, he might've known this. But he didn't, and we're seeing the result. It's hard to feel sorry for the McCain aides who are now complaining about Palin, since they were the ones responsible for putting her on the ticket. I'd also recommend the New Yorker 's recent profile of Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel , who also has some choice words for his old friend John McCain and ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for October 29, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... … he doesn’t believe Palin is “ qualified to be President of the United States ”! * * * Granted McCain/Palin and the Repuglicans are now running the most despicable, dishonorable, unacceptable campaign ever, as revealed in this list of ...
Give Hagel a Job, But Not Secretary of Defense
Daily Kos —
... In 2007 arrived the culmination of a change in Hagel that had been coming a long time. A Vietnam veteran, Hagel changed his view of the Vietnam War in 1999 after listening to tape recordings of Lyndon Johnson telling a Senator that he knew the United States couldn’t win the war but that he would keep sending troops and materiel to avoid being impeached. That brought him into line with the views of his Vietnam vet brother (they served in the same unit and twice saved each other’s life) that the war had not been a mistake but cynically fought and immoral in its ...
