http://www.wikio.com/search=Pete Wehner Wikio - Pete Wehner http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=68251712 Corsi's a nutter and should be ignored into oblivion. This is from Pete Wehner , a former GWB speech writer and still a member of Bush's brain trust: Corsi’s approach to politics is both destructive and self-destructive. If Senator Obama loses, he should lose on the merits: his record in public life and his political philosophy. And while it’s legitimate to take into account Obama’s past associations with people like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright–especially for someone like Obama, about whom relatively little is known–it wrong and reckless to throw out unsubstantiated charges and smears against Senator Obama. Conservatism has been an intellectual home to people like Burke and Buckley. The GOP is the party that gave us Lincoln and Reagan. It seems to me that its leaders ought to make it clear that they find what Dr. Corsi is doing to be both wrong and repellent. To have their movement and their party associated with such a figure would be a terrible thing and it will only help the cause of those who hold both the GOP and the conservative movement in contempt. He's right. People should read David Freddoso's book about Obama instead. He's a serious journalist with something to say. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:44:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=68251712 2008-08-19T16:44:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=67628299 A reader writes: I agree with Pete Wehner's objection that any comparison between Russia's invasion of Georgia and our invasion of Iraq is insulting. One involved a nation moving troops into an area where it had long-standing and recognized national... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:47:08 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=67628299 2008-08-13T14:47:08Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=67539090 Peter Wehner huffs and puffs over my comparing Russia invading Georgia with the US invading Iraq. Reihan offers a semi-defense from Wehner while still critiquing my position on Iraq. (Good point on Kosovo, though, and one the Russians are very... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:41:34 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=67539090 2008-08-12T20:41:34Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=66588429 My old friend is hopping mad these days, and I have to say it looks good on him. I read the most recent to-and-fro while I was on vacation and have a few thoughts. The first is that Joe may... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:44:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=66588429 2008-08-04T13:44:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=66392112 Pete Wehner traces the decline of Joe Klein here and here . Klein is melting down like the Wicked Witch of the West. I first noticed Klein's decline when he celebrated Barack Obama's "More Pefect Union" speech, a speech that was itself the victim of a slow-motion meltdown. Klein hailed it as a masterpiece: The rhetorical magic of the speech—what made it extraordinary—was that it was, at once, both unequivocal and healing. There were no weasel words, no Bushian platitudes or Clintonian verb-parsing. Obama was unequivocal in his candor about black anger and white resentment—sentiments that few mainstream politicians acknowledge (although demagogues of both races have consistently exploited them). And he was unequivocal in his refusal to disown Wright. Cynics and political opponents quickly noted that Obama used a forest of verbiage to camouflage a correction—the fact that he was aware of Wright's views, that he had heard such sermons from the pulpit, after first denying that he had. And that may have been politics as usual. But the speech wasn't. It was a grand demonstration of the largely unfulfilled promise of Obama's candidacy: the possibility that, given his eloquence and intelligence, he will be able to create a new sense of national unity—not by smoothing over problems but by confronting them candidly and with civility. Somewhere along the way Klein reduced himself from an astute observer of the political scene into a symptom of a malady. Wehner's exchange with Klein marks the reduction with an exclamation point. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:15:14 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Pete+Wehner?rinfoid=66392112 2008-08-02T02:15:14Z