diplomacy

Given that Benjamin Franklin had a background in diplomacy, science, publishing and traveling, is it really so hard to think that one of the only founding fathers never to seek office would be a digger if he were alive today?

I don't mean to say that he'd be an avid technology broadcast journalist turned internet entrepreneur, regardless of the image I chose for this entry. I'm talking about

Bill Kristol’s performance yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday was sub-par. His “je ne sais quoi” was missing and his answers were rote. It was almost as if he was reading from a script. Watch as he seems to struggle to remember his “lines”:

Some were worried that Obama couldn't take on the fight in the General Election. I think he's shown that he's learned from the battles of the past that you can't just go and say "I'm as tough as you Mr. Republican," you have to show the weakness in the Republican argument and mindset.

While in Israel last week, President Bush hammered those who would try to appease terrorists rather than defeat them.

McCain apparently wants to start a new Cold War with Russia and China, undoing decades of diplomacy. His idea of kicking Russia out, and excluding China from the G8 group of industrialized nations (that comprise the majority of the world’s production and industry), was called by Newsweek: “the most radical idea put forward by [...]

Everyone's least favorite President is using a trip to a foreign country to attack those who think diplomacy is not a four letter word.

A Free-Market Based approach to environmental concerns OR a pandering politician (I know, I know...a bit redundant) to the left's nature worship?

The latest WSJ/NBC poll shows what we’ve known all along to be true; this is a great environment for Democrats but a difficult one for the two Democratic candidates.

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While Barack Obama assails church-going gun-owning Americans, ex-President Jimmy "Malaise" Carter heads off to the Middle East to do a little freelance diplomacy with Hamas, a terrorist organization that has killed Americans and is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.