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L.A.'s Lawyer to the Stars -- and the Majority Leader

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales talked with Ellen Gracie Northfleet, president of Brazil's highest court, in Brasilia. Temperatures there were in the 80s.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales talked with Ellen Gracie Northfleet, president of Brazil's highest court, in Brasilia. Temperatures there were in the 80s. (By Marri Nogueira -- Associated Press)
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So Rice gets bumped to a smaller plane. It's still quite nice, but it has room for only three reporters, instead of her usual complement of 13 or 14.

Unclear how many press are going with the loquacious vice president.

Gonzales Travels to Balmier Climes

Speaking of trips, while folks in this area are freezing, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is off this week to Central and South America for a series of chats with various officials about drugs, copyright laws and other exciting topics. On Monday, he talked about gangs with El Salvador's president.

Tuesday he flew to Buenos Aires and on Wednesday (sunny and 84 degrees) toured the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, where a terrorist bomb killed 85 people in 1994. Yesterday it was off to Brasilia (temps in the 80s but partly cloudy) for meetings with various folks there. He had "a fruitful discussion on a number of topics of mutual importance to Brazil and the United States" with his Brazilian counterpart, he announced.

Today, it's to be Rio -- no carnival action, we're told -- to speak at an exciting conference about copyright laws.

The department says the curiously unimportant trip was planned long before anyone predicted the current cold snap -- or that increasingly nasty spat over the firings of those U.S. attorneys.

Punching Not Among Obama's Strengths

Conservative news organizations got it half right when they reported recently that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was once schooled in a foreign-sounding place that may have promoted violent techniques. But it turns out it wasn't a madrassah he attended but rather a "dojang," where he learned taekwondo.

Obama, who studied the Korean martial art in the early 2000s, was "not the best kicker, not the best puncher," his former teacher, Chicago financial capital planner David Posner, told our colleague Mary Ann Akers-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/thesleuth.

On the other hand, Obama was "very disciplined, very diligent" and had "phenomenal balance, very good footwork" -- critical in a presidential campaign -- and "really good, solid stances" -- less important these days.


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