August 13, 2008
Anatole Lieven in an op-ed piece in the FT (subscription required) has summarized the Khachapuri Wars concisely and succinctly. It will not make for happy reading in Washington DC, London (or Southwold), Talinn, Warsaw or Edward Lucas-land, but I suspect that the Germans, and possibly the French, wi...
go to article »August 11, 2008
There’s a lot more talk about the art of political story-telling at the moment. For instance, CNN.com has an article by Paul Willis, who says that the US presidential election will boil down to whose story voters prefer, even more than where the candidates stand on the issues. And within the Liber...
go to article »August 6, 2008
In a whimsical column comparing Obama to Mr Darcy, Maureen Dowd records one Texan voter's nervous appraisal of Obama's physique. “He needs to put some meat on his bones,” said Diana Koenig, a 42-year-old Texas housewife. Another Clinton voter sniffed on a Yahoo message board: “...
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During the primary season, Barack Obama gave us an object lesson in how political narratives work, engaging both the heart and the head.Now, after a slow start, the McCain campaign shows us how counter-stories really work; in the process, they might be proving something thoroughly unpleasant about A...
go to article »August 4, 2008
In the heat of the summer, the presidential race seems to have lost its fire. The contest between McCain and Obama had promised to be a clash of starkly different histories and personalities, and - thanks to both candidates' commitment to bipartisanship and dialogue - had even promised to be ab...
go to article »July 31, 2008
Barack Obama at 10 Downing Street in LondonBarack Obama delivered remarks before a press avail at the Prime Minister's residence in London, the famed 10 Downing Street.British leader tells Obama: Hit the beach Posted: 11:59 AM ET Sen. Barack Obama listens to British Tory Leader David Cameron Satur...
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Kanishk is in holiday and asked me before he left to report on Barack Obama in London. It is quite hard to do so. There isn't really a British angle as the trip was played out for US domestic politics. Dropping in on the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition was a politeness. He got ...
go to article »July 30, 2008
Senator Barack Obama's trip to the middle east and Europe from 19-26 July 2008 was no junket. Nor was it an updated version of the old "three I's tour" that Democratic presidential candidates used to make - to Italy, Ireland and Israel - for reasons exclusively of domestic electo...
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Over on OurKingdom, Ian Parsley corrects Barack Obama's version of Northern Irish history. Standing near the ghost of the Berlin Wall last week, the US presidential candidate claimed that walls had “come down in Belfast, where Protestants and Catholics found a way to live together.” "Se...
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