swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/24/2009
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Today Jackson Diehl picks up Charles Krauthammer's theme of last Friday, which is that Barack Obama is getting played by the Russians. This is a theme that goes back to John McCain's overreaction to the skirmish in Georgia last summer--and further, to Robert Kagan's theory that the Russkies ...
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Swampland : Joe Klein on the rise of the idea that “Obama is getting played by the Russians” : “This is cold war nonsense.” The Plum Line : Greg Sargent reviews Obama’s performance at yesterday’s White House summit: Pundits are already parading forth to declare that this is Obama again displaying his inclination towards “bipartisan” rule. But something more nuanced was going on here. The key to understanding what Obama was doing lies in a little joke that Obama made. Glancing over at GOP House leader Eric Cantor, Obama said: “I’m gonna keep talking to ...
Historical Fiction
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... Joe Klein apparently understands the Russians better than they understand themselves, and certainly better than anyone else in the press corps. In his latest dispatch for Time, the self-styled bane of neoconservatives untangles the latest Jewish deception in foreign affairs: ...
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