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President Obama's highly publicized revival of the left's Cold War mantra of creating a nuclear free world by creating complex arms agreements provided an excellent cover for the testing of a far more practical and immediate strategic policy change. When the White House wanted to launch a policy trial balloon in the past it would drift a few suggestions in the direction of the Washington Post or the New York Times. The Obama administration under the guidance of chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, however, has introduced a little misdirection into that old political device. For Obama the new water carrier...

Harry Reid May Ask Senator Clinton to Preempt Presidential Ambitions to Succeed Him as Senate Majority/Minority Leader Some high level Democratic Party political insiders have shared with TWN details of a potential shift in vectors for several of the major political stars in that party. First of all, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, whom most give high marks for the manner in which he has stewarded the Dems in the Senate despite the absence of a clear Democratic Party chief, has sent private signals to Senator Hillary Clinton and other stalwarts of the party that he "would like to" step...

Email from Cooter E-mail to Candidate Kerry #6 From James (Cooter) Thompson Dear Senator Kerry: We—Boudreau and me, Cooter, and the rest of the guys down to Daryl's Bait Shop—are pleased that you took our advice in our previous e-mail to you and shot down that trial balloon you floated a couple of weeks ago. You know, the one where you were gonna refuse the nomination of your Party at the Convention in Boston so you could raise campaign funds and beat the McCain-Feelgood law restrictions. You did manage to minimize the damage to your campaign. But it shouldn't have...