Opinion: In today’s pages: Gaza, grrls, votes and values
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Columnist Jonah Goldberg says Barack Obama’s judgment on Iraq falls short:
[E]ven if you want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, it’s hard to give him the benefit of the facts. As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2004, Obama said he would ‘unequivocally’ oppose President Bush on the war. But once in office, he voted for every war-funding bill -- until he decided to run for president.
Contributing editor Ian Buruma wonders if ‘Asian values’ are stopping Burmese leaders from helping their citizens. Writer A. S. Hamrah remembers a forgotten anniversary -- the day Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol. Former Republican congressman Mickey Edwards asks why Congress acts like it serves the president rather than the Constitution.
The editorial board remarks that the Universal Studios fire may have destroyed sets, but the movies they’re in thankfully survive. The board also urges Israel and the U.S. to allow Palestinian scholarship students out of Gaza. Finally, the board reminds readers to vote today.
On the letters page, readers discuss the Michigan and Florida vote. William T. Fidurski of Clark, N.J. says, ‘On Saturday, in exemplification of its own worst traditions, the Democratic Party trashed both the sanctity of the vote and the principle of one person, one vote.’
*Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson, Washington Post Writers Group