In the Presidential Medal of Freedom awards yesterday President Obama misspoke and referred to “Polish death camps” when referring to Nazi German death camps in Poland. He’s now apologized. But Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, who has very conservative politics and a habit of playing in US politics, has taken the opportunity to attack the President for his “ignorance and incompetence,” in other words, playing from the GOP playbook. (Sikorski is a one time columnist for the National Review, fellow at AEI and advisor to Rupert Murdoch.)
Eligible voters are being purged from the rolls in Florida, and Congressional Democrats are demanding that Republican Gov. Rick Scott put a stop to it.
Insurgent Ted Cruz prevented Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst from winning the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate outright in Texas last night. They now go to a runoff.
TPM Reader JA chimes in with his take. Not sure I completely agree. But it is true that if Wolf Blitzer ain’t buying then you’re going to have a hard time selling anyone:
I think your two most recent posts on the editor’s blog are related to each other in an important way.
MH asks “who are the voters this will affect?” I agree that this issue alone will probably not swing many votes. But it might swing the media and their coverage of Mitt Romney.
A short while ago, hours before a major fundraiser he’s hosting for Mitt Romney, Donald Trump went on Wolf Blitzer’s show to triple down on birtherism and explain to Wolf how Obama was using “reverse psychology” on him on the birther issue.
Romney appears unable or unwilling to say anything negative or disassociate himself in any way from Trump’s remarks.
For no other reason other than that it’s so awesome: President Obama awarding Bob Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Video after the jump … Read More
This just happened:
BLITZER: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
TRUMP: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.