The Daily Background

“Running for president is like sex, Don. You don’t do it once and forget about it.”

– James Carville, 1/27/08, predicting that Al Gore will run for President in 2008.

“Moving in a negative direction”

– Michael McConnel, 1/27/08, the incoming Director of National Intelligence (who is replacing John Negroponte after he switched to the State Dept and was sworn in today) describing the situation in Iraq. He also said the term “civil war” was appropriate.

“We should have gotten out a long time ago. This is a mistake, this entire war there, its a disaster. And the earlier we get out the better… It’s a terrible disaster. Look at the loss of lives of our young Americans there and those who have been maimed for life, for what purpose? No purpose we can define.”

–Walter Cronkite, quoted by a local CBS affiliate, 1/26/07, on the war in Iraq.

“I will not send him… It just would not make sense. He’s more vulnerable than he was before. It would be the height of recklessness, from my point of view, to allow Bob Woodruff to go back to Iraq.”

– ABC News President David Westin, 1/26/07.

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