On behalf of the Swampland regulars, as well as everyone at Time.com, I offer thanks and props to Mudcat Saunders for his blogging this week. His time here was brief but, I would say, electric — for him and for all the readers and commenters he attracted. He staged what might be the greatest comeback [...]
That’s what Barack Obama promised, but it sure looks the same old, uh, stuff to me. If the first casualty of war is truth, the first casualty of politics is sanctimony. For all Obama’s public pledges to run a positive campaign, today’s NYT details how Obama’s campaign attempted a clumsy stealth hit on the frontrunner: [...]
I can’t believe I’m using all these words in the same sentence but here goes: Patrick Ruffini has an interesting post over at Hugh Hewitt’s blog. (Gulp.) It’s about the relative power of the left/right blogosphere and he sums up with this: Paradoxically, I wonder if this won’t be a better year for the rightroots [...]
This week has been quite an experience, to say the least. Monday night, I was saying to myself, “You ignorant hillbilly, how in the world did you manage to get yourself in such a mess?” Today, I can honestly say I’m glad I accepted Time’s offer. When I told Time I would do it, my [...]
Former Bush speechwriter Mike Gerson does a fairly remarkable thing in this WaPo column, attempting to conflate Clintonism and Bushism. The basic problem with this analysis is that Bill Clinton was a moderate and George W. Bush is not. Oh, Bush talked–a bit–about compassion and faith-based social programs, but David Kuo pretty much destroyed the [...]
