President Bush just doesn’t get it.  The vast majority of elected officials are not saying we need to "cut and run"  — far from it.  They are saying we need a real plan, a plan that says what we will accomplish, how we will do it, and an idea of just how much longer will be needed to accomplish those plans.  Is it so difficult to present a coherent plan for success in Iraq?  For this administration, and this this president in particular, apparently so.

I thought this was rather funny.  People need to get a sense of humor and not have such thin skins.

Israeli politics is going through a major change these days.  Ariel Sharon left Likud to form a "centrist" political party willing to embrace the Peace Process and now he’s grabbed long-time Labor leader Shimon Peres away from the party he’s led for .. well .. forever.  It seems rather petty on the part of Peres to leave Labor because it looks like he did so simply because he lost the leadership role.  For Sharon, this may turn out to be a shrewd political move.  Most polling shows his new party, Kadima (meaning "forward"), winning the majority of seats in the Knesset and now that he’s attracting centrists politicians from both parties Israel’s political landscape may be changed forever.

To my thinking this is a good thing.  Israel has been ruled by either Labor or Likud since its modern beginnings.  Change is good.  It’s interesting to see a country like Israel embrace is so quickly and easily.  I doubt we could see something like that in this country.