washingtonpost.com Nicolas Sarkozy, the combative son of a Hungarian immigrant, was elected president of France on Sunday, promising a new generation of leadership to transform the country, restore its self-respect and reinvigorate ties with the United States and Europe.Sarkozy, a member of the ruling party and France’s former top law enforcement officer, defeated Socialist Segolene [...]
Honest Partisan recommended this speech: Foreign Policy Remarks at CCGA by Barack Obama to me and asked for my comments on it. Overall, it strikes me like a lot of Obama’s speeches as being very heavy with ideas and sentiments that I agree with, or at least support, but light on any actual concrete proposals. [...]
New York Times Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Thursday that Congress repeal the authority it gave President Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq, injecting presidential politics into the Congressional debate over financing the war. Mrs. Clinton’s proposal brings her full circle on Iraq — she supported the war measure five years ago — and it [...]
