From TPM Reader PJ …
Interesting to note how some people are getting worked up over Wanda Sykes and Obama’s behavior at that dinner. Remember GW Bush joking about the “missing WMD’s” when he appeared at the same event a few years back? IMHO, that was a truly low point for our nation– a President laughing about the fact that nobody could find the nuclear weapons that provided the central rationale for his assault on Iraq, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Email advertisement we just received for a new book from conservative publishing house Regnery: “General Curtis LeMay: Villain or Hero?
I’m not sure what’s known yet about the firing (technically: requested resignation) of Gen. David McKiernan, the top US general in Afghanistan. But top generals in charge of entire wars are not canned lightly. The Times reports that “the decision reflects a belief that the war in Afghanistan has grown so complex that it needs a commander drawn from the military’s unconventional warfare branch.” And he’s being replaced by a general from the Special Operations Command, Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
At a very high level of generality that may be true. But there’s got to be much more to the story, a much more detailed chain of events and decision-making that led to this. And the story may be different entirely.
Robert Gibbs gives Dick Cheney big thumbs up as new GOP chief political strategist.
Liking Wanda Sykes more and more.
From Extra, explaining how she was asked to keep her routine clean …
“They told me not so say the F word or the N word… I’m offended they even told me that,” Sykes told “Extra” moments before taking the stage. “What do they think? I’m some ignorant a**. Like I’m going to go in there, ‘What’s up n*****. Like what the f*** they think I’m going to do?”
I said last week that Democrats shouldn’t harbor any illusions that congressional Dems were really kept in the dark about the Bush administration’s use of torture. But Greg Sargent talked to former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) — who was Pelosi’s then-counterpart on the senate side when the early briefings took place — and he says he was told nothing about ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques during the key 2002 briefings.
New top general in Afghanistan was at the center of the Pat Tillman ‘friendly fire’ scandal.
Shorter US News: Obama must accept the fact that his economic policies caused the economic crisis and soaring deficits.