[jim macomber]

As I posted earlier, this is yet one more example of allowing oneself to get shot in the foot by efforts and gestures of inclusiveness and, dare I say it, (yeccckk! - insert gagging sound) - bipartisanship.
I wish someone with far more influence than I could walk up to the President (the Republican leadership in general, actually) and kind of knock a knuckle on his forehead and get through to him/them that the other side doesn't like him, they will never like him no matter what he does, and every such act of 'reaching out' on his part is nothing more to them than a sign of weakness and an opportunity for mischief.

[marcinrochester]

Clarke helped shape U.S. policy on terrorism under President Reagan and the first President Bush. He was held over by President Clinton to be his terrorism czar, then held over again by the current President Bush. He always had the reputation of an America-first hard-liner.