End Of An Era

Robert A. George, a black moderate-conservative Republican blogger, writes: "Tony Blair announces that June 27th will be his last day as Prime Minister. There is an element of poetic irony in the PM career of Blair: He came into office viewed as a Clinton-like politician who revitalized 'New Labor.' He leaves tied at the ideological -- and 'popularity' -- hip with Clinton's successor George W. Bush, because of Iraq. On a marginally related note, the man whose swing away a decade ago from the Tories and toward Labor helped usher in the Blair era, explains his plan to make his media company carbon-neutral."

AmbivaBlog, a moderate blogger, writes: "Passing the transatlantic torch to his [French] admirer Sarkozy, perhaps. But Sarkozy won't be able to replace his way with the English language, what I for one will miss about him most. Especially when even his admirers admit our own leader is lamentably tongue-tied, Blair's eloquence was like salve on a wound."

My response: I liked the couple of British Parliament debates that I saw on PBS, and Prime Minister Tony Blair's responses to folks in his own party and the opposition Conservative Party. Good stuff.