I’ve just watched the video a couple of times–the Bob Schieffer interview with Wesley Clark–and I have to say that the overwhelming impression that I derive is that Clark is a mealy-mouthed, disingenuous, incoherent hack. It would be distressing, were he not so incompetent. Clark tries to frame the issues right off the bat by stating that the “old politics of left and right” no longer apply. Then he states

After years of decrying “Christianists,” Excitable Andy writes of “The Christianism Of Obama.” He has nothing critical to say about it, of course.  Indeed, he has now created a new class of “moderate Christianists” heretofore unseen at the Daily Dish to which Barack Obama can appeal. Sullivan also writes that “you could see this coming a while back.” Funny, I seem to recall writing about it for months and having Sullivan disagree with

Quest for Sex Porn “I’m Your Hanuman” Your BLT to supplement– Well, I am the god to see; I give you good luck, you tell all your friends They’ll come running to me

Coffee Break.

Robert J. Samuelson has a column at the Washington Post laying out the argument that politicians (including John McCain and Barack Obama) blaming speculators for rising prices “either don’t understand what’s happening or don’t want to acknowledge their own complicity.”  He argues that a “better explanation is basic supply and demand,” particularly increased demand from China and India, noting that prices are rising for commodities like iron that are not

SUGARTITS; being a supplement to yesterday’s post, for the edification and moral instruction of young men and women concerned about the equity of their gender roles A couple weeks ago, the New York Times came out with this article about the distribution of labor within American marriages, which reached the top of their “most-emailed” list. And guess what? According to the author of the piece, Lisa Belkin, things aren’t equal.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is allegedly funding his own church with that CITGO money.  The newly-forming Reform Catholic Venezuelan Church puts its emphasis on reform: For example, reformists consider that ”homosexuality and bisexuality are not sins in and of themselves.” Divorce is allowed and priests do not take vows of chastity. *** ”We completely support the socialist project led by Chávez,” said Enrique Albornoz, one of the new church’s first bishops — a group that is

The New Yorker’s George Packer (seconded by TNR’s Michael Crowley) write that the past year’s progress in Iraq will not only require Barack Obama to change his position on promptly withdrawing troops, but also give him the political cover to do so.  Packer writes: His supporters claim that the polls are with Obama, that war fatigue will make Iraq a political winner for him in November. Yet, as exhausted as

From Classical Values: “The act of getting coffee is not, by itself, a gender-specific act,” Schiller wrote. The fact that a vice president wrote “looks nice, dresses well,” on notes when she was hired also doesn’t add up to discrimination, the judge wrote. “While the behavior of plaintiff’s supervisors may have been rude, gauche, or undesirable, their actions do not violate federal or state antidiscrimination laws,” Schiller wrote. Klopfenstein, who