There’s that old saw: If I’d a known I was going to live so long I’d have taken better care of myself. Mike Huckabee now seems to be saying: If I’d a known the rest of the field woulda sucked this bad, I’d never have bowed out of running for president.
After news broke about the death of Anwar Al-Awlaki’s overnight I was interested and curious to see tweets on the topic from Hussein Ibish, former Communications Director for the Arab-American Anti-discrimination Committee and now with the American Task Force on Palestine. (He’s a must-follow on twitter by the way.) Ibish’s take was that al Awlaki had posed a unique kind of threat to Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans. And that purely from that perspective his demise was a very good thing. We interviewed Ibish this afternoon on the topic to follow up. Take a look.
The number of Republicans running for President today exceeded the number who aren’t.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests seem to be gathering some momentum. And that was before it was announced that Radiohead will perform this afternoon in the Financial District at 4 p.m. ET.
Late Update: Radiohead to WSJ: No, we’re not playing Occupy Wall Street gig.
Newt Gingrich: Gay marriage is “a temporary aberration that will dissipate.”
Warren Buffett p***ing all over the “Buffett Rule” on CNBC.
Late Update: Scratch that. Initial reports way overstated what Buffett said. We’ll have a complete report shortly.
Later Update: Rewatching the video, it’s kind of unbelievable how much Buffett’s comments were overplayed. He still likes his own proposal, he’s fine with the White House attaching his name to its proposal (they called in advance and he agreed), he might quibble with some of the details, including what the minimum income cutoff should be, but he’s reserving judgment on that until he sees the entire proposal. Video soon …
Last Update: Our report here.