9:51 PM: Obama’s line on Social Security strikes me as somewhat ambiguous.
9:57 PM: Best laugh line of the evening, Politico’s write up of National Journal’s decision to break the White House speech embargo …
National Journal editor in chief Ron Fournier told POLITICO he didn’t reach out to the White House before posting the text, and was only concerned about the draft’s accuracy. “I think that my only concern was that this was an accurate draft of the speech — were the sources credible? I talked to our reporter, and was assured that it was a credible and accurate draft, and we moved it out.”
“As a courtesy, I do wish I had given the White House a heads-up. Normally, anytime I’m part of a breaking news story, I do that,” Fournier said.
I had the timing of this a bit off. I guess it would only have been checking it against the advance release excerpts.
