E-mail a friendMarch 14, 2008
Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Murphy—the first Iraq war vet elected to Congress—talks about Sen. Obama's chances in the upcoming Democratic primary. Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne ponders whether the Christian right is dying and talks about New York's incoming governor.
Rep. Patrick Murphy
Rep. Patrick Murphy
Pennsylvania's Rep. Patrick Murphy is the first Iraq war veteran to be elected to Congress and has become a leading voice for change in Iraq. A graduate of the Army JAG program, he was the youngest professor at West Point and went on to serve as a paratrooper and captain in the 82nd Airborne, earning a Bronze Star. Murphy serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee—its only freshman—and is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition. He tells his story in the book, Taking the Hill.
E.J. Dionne. Jr.
E.J. Dionne. Jr.
Award-winning journalist E.J. Dionne writes for The Washington Post and is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Georgetown University professor. His syndicated column appears in more than 90 newspapers, and his books include Why Americans Hate Politics, which Newsday called "a classic in American political history," and Souled Out. Dionne spent 14 years with The New York Times, including stints in Paris, Rome and Beirut. He earned his Ph.D. at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.