Handwritten letters by Jon Huntsman, the outgoing ambassador to China and a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, seem to show a unique admiration for President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.
As the WikiLeaks endless U.S. diplomatic document dump continues, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is battling back calls to resign for a UN espionage scheme, she’s leading the government’s de facto public relations campaign against WikiLeaks and she’s battening down the hatches at the State Department. She is, in effect, in a war against the future the internet is promising to deliver as WikiLeaks incrementally posts all of the 250,000 State Department cables it is alleged to possess. On Wednesday, the internet also attacked her from the past. Web-culture agenda-setting site Boing Boing posted Clinton’s January celebration of internet freedom.
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THIN AIR, BIG THOUGHTS: At last week’s Aspen Ideas Fest, Google’s Eric Schmidt on economic evolution and the hurdle created from the cozy relationship between incumbent businesses and regulators: “High-tech works three times…
Superdelegate Debbie Marquez of Edwards, who declared her support for Sen. Barack Obama in early February, said it’s time for her undeclared counterparts in Colorado to “get off the fence” and start announcing who they will support for the Democratic…
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Ex-Colorado Sen. Gary Hart boarded the Dump Hillary bandwagon over the weekend. So did ex-New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. Both endorsed Iowa caucus winner Sen. Barack Obama for president.
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There is an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”
Former President Bill Clinton, speaking in Denver on Monday, came perilously close to it. “This is a very exciting time to be alive,” he told the assembled…
It’s early yet, but a few of the presidential contenders are confident enough to rely on comedy instead of choler in their video presentations to prospective voters. Instead of earnest policy tomes on global warming, actor and candidate-to-be Fred Thompson…
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