I’ve read Peggy Noonan’s latest WSJ column a couple of times, trying to make heads or tails of it. I’m at a bit of a loss. The end of placeness is one of the features of the campaign. I do not like it. Pretend you are not a political sophisticate and regular watcher of the […]
Way back in April, which seems like a surprisingly long time ago, Atrios had a prediction: “This election is going to be much much stupider than the last time. Last time much of the stupid was at least nominally about serious issues, this time it’s just all about the stupid.” The last four months have […]
A few months ago, Chris Matthews asked John McCain if he would consider a pro-choice running mate, such as former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. “I don’t know if [his position on the issue] would stop him, but it would be difficult apoteketreceptfritt.com ,” McCain said. This week, McCain reversed course a bit, saying he might […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * The Obama campaign released a very detailed refutation of Jerome Corsi’s hatchet-job book, and posted a lengthy document on the subject online. * A good fundraising month for the GOP: “John McCain […]
Once in a while, the depth of John McCain’s foreign policy confusion stops being funny, and starts getting scary. For those of you who can’t watch clips online, McCain told an audience at the Aspen Institute yesterday, “My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the […]
It was obviously a slip of the tongue, but it was a gaffe that underscored an important point: John McCain seems to think he’s already the president. Standing behind a lectern in Michigan this week, with two trusted senators ready to do his bidding, John McCain seemed to forget for a moment that he was […]
It must be rather frustrating for the McCain campaign to have so few honest arguments to make. I can sympathize — if I worked for McCain, I’m not sure what I’d do to sell this clunker of a campaign to the public, either. Looking at the McCain gang’s latest ad, it’s painfully obvious that this […]
TNR’s Michael Crowley made an argument yesterday that I’ve seen more than a few times in recent months: Barack Obama shouldn’t pick a running mate who supported the war in Iraq in 2002. Increasingly, the wise guys are predicting that Obama will choose Bayh or Biden as his running mate. Maybe, but neither one makes […]
In late June, the McCain campaign was aggressively pushing the line that John McCain has taken political risks by working with Dems on important issues. Pressed for a recent example to bolster the claim, a campaign spokesperson said, “It’s fairly significant that Senator McCain worked on the immigration reform legislation while he was pursing the […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Russians aren’t exactly rushing to go home: “Russian officials said Thursday that the Georgian government will not regain control over two breakaway provinces that are at the center of a week-long military conflict, as the Kremlin issued an uncompromising response to U.S. and Western threats over its military incursion […]