joe klein

It’s been awhile since the last bureaucratic/journalistic freakout over Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, and so Joe Klein fills the gap by talking about the low, low policy stakes involved:
The interesting thing here is that there are no real policy disagreements among the Obama foreign policy players. By all accounts, they’ve been getting [...]

Something else that’s interesting in Joe Klein’s interview with Sen. Barack Obama.
Yesterday we saw John McCain severely misrepresent what the impending U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) says, incorrectly insisting that its date-certain deadlines for U.S. troop withdrawals are based on “conditions” on the ground. Here Klein asks Obama to revisit his 2007 questions to [...]

Joe Klein conducted a fascinating interview with Sen. Barack Obama recently, and he’s just put the transcript online.
There’s a lot to sift through, particularly from a foreign-policy perspective. But check out Obama’s account of his July meeting in Baghdad with Gen. David Petraeus, now head of U.S. Central Command and with whom a prospective President [...]