A TV tip:
Early this evening (check your local listings), ABC World News Sunday is slated to air a segment on the Democrats' chronic inability to come up with an Iraq agenda. I was interviewed for the segment - the network contacted me after I wrote this column - and they told me today that I will appear. Obviously, I am curious to see what sound bite they pluck from my lips, and what they leave on the cutting-room floor...but, more importantly for you viewers, reporter Jake Tapper will probably examine some of the key questions of the '06 campaign:
Does it matter that the Democrats don't have an affirmative agenda for Iraq? Can they win simply by saying "we're not Bush"? Or do they owe the voters more than that?
About Me
- Dick Polman
- Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters, and lauded by the ABC News political website as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation," Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. This online column is cited by The Washington Post as one of the top five mainstream political blogs in the country, and is touted by former "Hardball" TV producer Howard Mortman as "the immediately must-read political blog." Dick has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC. He covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns. In his 22 years at the Inquirer, he has also been a foreign correspondent based in London; a baseball writer covering the Philadelphia Phillies; a general-assignment writer in the feature section; and a longtime Sunday magazine contributor. In the early '80s, he wrote three metro columns a week for the Hartford Courant. A graduate of George Washington University, today Dick is on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "writer in residence."