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McCain starts talking about his trip to Iraq.
The troops are happy with the success that we have achieved. They know that this strategy has been succeeding. In Anbar things are quiet. In Baghdad, things are better. … Petraeus believes that there could be an uptick in al-Qaeda activity because they are on the run. [...]
An Iraq veteran family asks about "the rush to war in Iran." Of course, Drudge links to a story on Iran:
The way to do that is to not ratchet up the winds to war here. A lot of people voted for that … a serious, serious mistake. It convinced the rest of the Muslim war [...]
They ask Clinton about illegal immigration. The question cites other candidates saying that she doesn’t answer questions.
The American people know what I have been fighting for 35 years…. Fighting for issues for women and minorities, workers and families.
They ask Obama to whip Clinton:
Senator Clinton is a great politician. … Politics of parsing. … Straight [...]
First some notes from his opening:
Pakistan leads the headlines. The Pakistani intelligence services has differences with us going way back.
Mentions the Taliban and ISI and the rise of extremism in Waziristan and other places. Says that Pervez Musharraf is better than the options.
There’s a lot at stake when a nuclear powered nation … I wish [...]
The theme of the call really seemed to be communication. John McCain has made clear repeatedly that he would do more than the Bush administration to communicate. He would talk more about Iraq. About the deficit. About immigration. About global warming. About judges. He believes that he would be able to get through to people [...]
It seems that John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are on. MItt Romney is struggling (although Hugh Hewitt has probably already writing his post for Romney’s victory) and I am not inspired by Fred Thompson.
Mike Huckabee’s new Buchananite turn, which I predicted, is alarming me a lot.
It seems quite likely that the quotes of the night [...]
They ask Romney about his liberalism and 1994. He dodges. He won’t talk about his past.
Thompson cracks jokes at Kennedy’s expense. He gets to talk about his details. Then he whacks at Rudy on abortion, immigration, and gun control.
Rudy says, "Fred has his problems too. Fred was the single biggest obstacle to tort reform in [...]
Reps. Jeb Hensarling and Marsha Blackburn had a very brief conference call with bloggers.
They noted that S-CHIP was vetoed by the President. They pointed out all the details about this being more than a children’s healthcare program. 17 states are adding adults with this. Dropping the citizenship requirement. Clearly this call (and further calls) are [...]
John McCain gave a conference call from Michigan where he had spoken to a Hispanic business group.
He says that the campaign is moving along well. "We have a long, hard slog." He talked about Iraq, and described Petraeus as "convincing enough to give our troops more time." McCain calls on ASEAN to kick Burma out [...]
"If you are not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous attack, I don’t know how you are tough enough to be President."
Matt Lewis. He asks about where the other GOP candidates are on the surge.
"I don’t pay that much attention to the other campaigns. The reason that I responded to governor Romney is [...]
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