Looks like Barack Obama is winning the “Time frame” debate

There’s been a ton of push back on Barack Obama’s suggested plan to pull out troops within 16 months - and establishing a “time frame.”

The White House agreed last week to work on a “general time horizon” for removing U.S. troops — a significant reversal from President Bush’s long held opposition to discuss any time frames.

My question is what the heck is the difference between a time horizon and time frame?

Sounds like the same thing - right?

Thoughts?

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Keith Olbermann scores a major feature story in this week’s New Yorker.

Among the many highlights is his entertaining battle with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly of The O’Reilly Factor.

From Olbermann’s desk at MSNBC, he can see Fox News’ headquarters - where he used to work.

“Sometimes I imagine that I hear a howl coming from there,” Olbermann told the New Yorker.

“I have been accused of having an obsession with him. I am a minor-leaguer compared to his obsession with me.”

The feud has attracted so many viewers to Olbermann’s Countdown show that he admits, “I really do owe him [O'Reilly] a percentage of my salary.”

Want to read more and find out why Olbermann told President Bush to shut-up? Click here.

(New Yorker)

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President Bush, informed while at dinner in Paris, issued a statement of condolence that praised the NBC newsman as “an institution in both news and politics for more than two decades. Tim was a tough and hardworking newsman. He was always well-informed and thorough in his interviews. And he was as gregarious off the set as he was prepared on it.”

“Most important, Tim was a proud son and father, and Laura and I offer our deepest sympathies to his wife, Maureen, his son, Luke, and the entire Russert family,”