Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Obama’s in

17 January 2007 |permalink | email article

Barack Obama announced his presidential exploratory committee yesterday to little surprise. But the real news is that he will formally declare in Springfield, Ill., the home of Abraham Lincoln.

He is the only one of several Democratic candidates exploring… read full story

Defining Failure

14 January 2007 |permalink | email article

W’s speech defining a new strategy to secure Baghdad contained an implicit warning to Maliki that if his government does not follow through on a series of benchmarks for progress he cannot count on the support of either the… read full story

Too little, too late

11 January 2007 |permalink | email article

Gone in W’s speech were the smirk and cockiness about spending political capital. No more “mission accomplished” or victory talk.

Instead, he offered a weak version of the cliché the buck stops in the Oval Office.

“Mistakes”… read full story

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Mission Statement

Aristotle's Politics (Book 1, Chapter 1) is clear that "man is a political animal in a greater measure than any bee or any gregarious animal. For nature does nothing without purpose, and man alone of the animals possesses speech."

The blogosphere watches as a divided America reexamines its soul. After 35 years as a journalist I have broken a long silence to comment again on critical moral and political issues that impact the U.S. body politic. Reflections on JoeScott3.com, an independent, non-profit blog, are posted frequently, not daily. I hope global readers, accepting Aristotle's definition of a political animal, will find this quick scan both provocative and mindful.

About Joe Scott

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Joe Scott spent many years as a columnist for the Herald-Examiner (1978-1989), and later the Los Angeles Times and other California dailies.He was the critically-acclaimed editor and publisher of the Political Animal and California Eye, newsletters (1973-1992). He worked as a political consultant and ran several successful political campaigns in California. Joe Scott is a third-generation Angeleno. He is working on a novel about public corruption in Los Angeles during the late 1930's.

Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic