Author - Bob Cesca

The Media

Oy

FOX & Friends host Brian Kilmeade: KILMEADE: Michael, first off, is Bin Laden — excuse me, uh, is Osama — uh, is Barack Obama right when he says the central location of the war on terror is in...

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The Media

Presumptuous Sightings

As soon as I turned on Morning Joe today, I heard "presumptuous" mentioned twice. And last night it was mentioned on both Hardball and Anderson Cooper. Digby adds: Keep in mijnd that the GOP does not...

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The Media

'Presumptuous'

That's the new word from the corporate media regarding Senator Obama's trip. Presumptuous. I heard it spoken by a CNN anchor during the web feed. Joe Klein mentioned it -- and, oddly, noted the...

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Senator Barack Obama

Berlin

This was the historical line: The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls...

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Senator Barack Obama

A Good Sign

"Germans differentiate between America and the Bush Administration. They are not anti-American per se; on the contrary," says Andreas Etges, professor for North American studies at Free University...

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Iraq

Hypotheticals

Riddle me this, Senator McBush. If there hadn't been a surge and the troops had been entirely redeployed back in 2006 or earlier (as Congressman Murtha proposed and Senator Obama supported), who's to...

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Darfur

Setting A Good Example

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has been indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide. And what did the Sudanese ambassador to the UN say in response? As far as we are...

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