• “I believe President Bush is going to order airstrikes [on Iran] before he leaves office.” Ack. [TP] • Newsweek’s not-very-helpful Iowa poll: “In other words, the odds of Obama “leading” on this poll are no better than a coin-flip, if we were to take repeated samplings of exactly the same design.” [Pollster.com] • That [...]
Joe Biden just held a conference call with reporters to “clarify a couple of things” about his Iraq plan, an endorsement of which was passed last week by the Senate as a non-binding resolution (the Biden-Brownback Iraq Federalism Amendment). It passed by a vote of 75-23, with substantial bi-partisan support. Senator Biden is angry at [...]
The WP’s series on IEDs is almost too much to take in — especially online, where you’re confronted by all kinds of great visual extras — but anyone who wants to follow the Iraq War as it’s being fought there (as opposed to here) should read it. Though, of course, the way we fight wars [...]
After a fashion: they’ve created “fundraiser tracker” so that reporters and Florida voters can follow the Democratic candidate’s success at raising money in Florida — even though they’re not “campaigning” there. (To do so would violate the agreement between the major candidates and the DNC, who’s trying to punish Florida Dems for agreeing to an [...]
Our wall-to-wall coverage of HILLARY’S LAUGH is not complete without a link to Slate’s John Dickerson, who also chimed in on the subject over the weekend. (I must have missed a meeting.) He makes some similar points to others, but his thought here strikes me as especially perceptive, perhaps even precognitive (emphasis mine): If bwah-ha-ha [...]
Newsweek’s story on Mitt Romney looks at his entire life through the prism of his religion. Other news organizations have shied away from such an explicit approach. (No one wants to be accused of being a bigot or a boor.) His campaign has (successfully) deflected most questions about Mormonism with bromides that either downplay its [...]
