Some things that happened in the world today while I was flying down the side of a mountain...
+ You must have been hiding under a news-free rock if you missed the huge fight over Ferraro's remarks about Obama. Team Obama demanded that Clinton fire Ferraro. Clinton refused. Ferraro made things worse by claiming reverse racism. Team Clinton agreed, then backtracked... or something. And now it is the only thing anyone is talking about on TV.
+ It has even drowned out Obama's win in Mississippi, if you can believe that.
+ That said, Team Obama is still talking about the 3AM ad. Greg Craig, a former Clinton advisor who is now with Obama, shredded Hillary's claims of foreign policy experience. Then, Sinbad - yes, that Sinbad - got in on the action. Amazingly, his opinions matter because he travelled extensively with Clinton on some of the trips she is claiming as key moments in her foreign policy past.
+ Adm. William Fallon has "resigned" as CENTCOM commander. According to this recent piece in Esquire, Fallon was a vocal critic of Bush' hostile stance towards Iran, so much so that Bush was trying to force hi to retire. Let's hope that Fallon's denial of this story is true. Spencer Ackeman, David Kurtz, and Josh Marshall have much more on this.
+ Merrill Lynch is now predicting we're about to enter the worst recession since the 1970s. But I'm with Roubini on this - they're not thinking big enough.
+ Meanwhile, things seem to be taking a very bad turn in Iraq. I absolutely detest saying this, but I continue to believe that this was inevitable. For nearly a century the West has tried to on several different occasions to control Mesopotamia, and every single time they have failed. For god's sake - after the Civil War, the North tried and failed to pacify the South for more than a decade, eventually giving up in 1876. If we couldn't do it then...
+ The House has tried and failed to override Bush's veto of legislation that would have once again banned torture. At the same time, it looks like the House may be standing tall on FISA reform. DNI McConnell seems to hate the House bill, which means it must be good.
+ Sen. McCain is still sticking up for his crazy friend John Hagee. He's also planning to run a very bizarre fall campaign. They want to run 10 separate campaigns in 10 different regions? My prediction: this will backfire badly. The only reason you would try something like this is to target different messages to different regions. And the only reason you would want to do that is if you wanted to say some things that you want some people, but not others, to hear. And that might have worked prior to the invention of the Internet. But after? No way.
+ It's official. Al Franken will take on Sen. Coleman this fall.
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