SEVEN percent, huh? Must… resist… writing… McCain.. obit… must… resist… Why am I resisting? Let’s let our friends at Real Clear Politics do the honors of providing context: That, my friends, is called an outlier. I’m willing to believe that the McCain camp is in trouble. Perhaps very serious trouble. But I also don’t think [...]
Politico’s Mike Allen reports that Fred Thompson is beefing up his foreign policy cred by giving a speech in London and having his picture taken with Margaret Thatcher: Thompson’s advisers aim to use the London events to bolster his foreign policy credentials and elevate him above the increasingly contentious fray of the GOP race. On [...]
Kudos to Holly Bailey over at Brand X for digging up these, ahem, unorthodox examples of senatorial rhetoric from Fred Thompson’s papers at the University of Tennessee. First, a purplish (maybe even blue?) regret: In 1998, when Thompson was a Republican senator and a single man about town, New York socialite Georgette Mosbacher invited him [...]
Dana Priest and Anne Hull continue their look at the holes in the Walter Reed safety net, this time focusing on the hospital’s almost comically inept treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. The harrowing story is told through the experiences of Pfc. Joshua Calloway: Wearing a rock band T-shirt, Calloway looked like any other 20-year-old on [...]
This went up last night on the South Asians for Obama website: After reading the story, SAFO immediately went to work drafting a response to the campaign. As we were finalizing this response — but before we could send it — we received a call from the campaign in Chicago. We learned, as we had [...]
It seems John McCain’s tepid attempt to woo the Republican Party base never had much of a chance. The New York Times reports that the money people don’t trust him. He was never a very convincing Bible-thumper, either. But I would guess that the single issue that has sent his poll numbersplummeting in places like [...]
