rove: too ebullient

* "There are all sorts of rumors in the Arab media now about Defense Department officials going to Turkey to discuss a war. Dubai is said to be worried about a U.S. war next door. Much of the Arab world believes we are destined to do military action. The Libyan move today likely only confirms that." (link)

* larisa: "No editor in their right mind would allow a story like (leopold's) unless they had talked to and checked the sources themselves. "

* clemons: "I don't have a good read on Rove's spirits today, but what is suspicious is the degree to which the White House spin machine has gone out of its way to show Rove as calm, in control, witty. . .up.... He was ebullient -- too much so -- in his AEI speech today."

* speaking of trying to read into people's characters and mannerisms and whatnot, i remember some report floating about a while back that a psychologist or some such noted that PreznitBlinky often mis-speaks when he lies, or says something that is difficult for him to say for other reasons (not in a pronunciation sense). i note that he did 'stumble' in his speech today when he said 'militarize' (altho that could simply be that the word is multi-syllabic)

* in the comments to my post about the righties calling for impeachment, oldschool writes:

"Goddammit - we called first dibs on impeachment!! (and yes even before Pat Buchanan). The thought of me and Michelle Malkin drinking champagne on the same night is just too repulsive. It ain't right, I tell ya. What a cruel joke that would be... I still got dibs on the moral high ground, goddammit."

funny.