Month: August 2009

Conservatives will face this dilemma again when Presidents Carter and Clinton pass away, and we liberals will face it again when Dick Cheney and George W. Bush pass away. I think it is helpful to remember how you felt when a loved one died, and then imagine how you would feel if someone said to you about that loved one what you want to say about a dead political adversary. And on an unrelated matter, we are rapidly approaching the point where I will embrace a key teaching of the Old Testament.

On CNN's webpage just now, appeared this picture: I missed the part where Jimmy Carter moved to Myanmar and became a warlord.

Josh Marshall raises the elephant in the room: that timing and circumstance of Ted Kennedy's death, and indeed the events of the last year of his life, make it impossible to separate from the politics of the moment.