What does Sen. Richard Lugar think of Sarah Palin?

He’s not too impressed, judging by his lack of congratulatory response to McSame.  Unlike Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as V.P., a selection praised by Lugar.  Soon after Biden’s selection, Lugar (one of the GOP’s most respected foreign policy experts) issued this statement while traveling to Georgia:
“I congratulate Senator Barack Obama on his selection of [...]

Rolling Stone picks dark horse Obama VP candidate…Dick Lugar

Citing respectable foreign policy credentials, a working relationship between the two, and the fact that Lugar is not a “fire-breather” on social issues (good because he’s a pro-lifer), Rolling Stone’s National Affairs blog goes out on a limb and picks Indiana’s own for Obama’s VP spot.  Nice!

Lugar’s crytal ball – We are gonna have to listen to Russia or else no more wars

Read into our recent action or non-action to the Russia/Georgia invasion.  The West’s (the U.S., Europe, NATO) soft response in the whole situation is based on the awareness that we don’t have the upper hand.  At least everyone seems to know this but John McCain.
Senator Lugar recently had this to say on the matter,
“It is unlikely that [...]

Lugar, fighting for the independent/organic farmer

Sometimes I feel Iike this blog should be named Lugarwatch or something, but of all of Indiana’s federally elected officials, he’s the one that seems to be doing any actual work these days on Capital Hill.  That is, if you don’t count Bayh’s VP run and Pence’s melodramatic theatrics over domestic drilling.
I’ve talked about it [...]

Lugar supports, Bayh undeclared on bill S.223 and a more transparent government

Public Citizen recently pushed this to my inbox:
In January 2007, Sen. Russ Feingold introduced the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act—S. 223—to require Senate campaigns to file their campaign finance reports electronically. The bill is supported by both Republicans and Democrats and has a total of 45 co-sponsors.
Currently, Senate reports are filed in paper format, increasing the [...]

Rhetorical Criticism – Richard Lugar’s energy policy suggestions for 2008 presidential election

Here’s another practice in rhetorical criticism analyzing a 2007 speech from Senator Richard Lugar.  It is not a ‘formal’ rhetorical method like fantasy theory, neo-classical, feminist theory, or the like.  Rather it’s a formalized method of examining the speech from a general critical theory perspective.  Lugar, the rhetor, is addressing the Brookings Institution at the [...]