Ana suggests the media have inflated the Obama-on-the-attack story line. No question they/we have. And she’s right that calling out Clinton for deliberate opacity on entitlement reform is hardly a vicious personal attack. But let’s not forget that the inflation began with Obama himself, who sat down for a New York Times interview in order, in part if not in whole, to tell the world that he was now going to take the fight more directly to his colleague from New York. That’s the kind of discussion of strategy and process that is bound to drive reporters to their keyboards, especially when it comes from the candidate’s own mouth. Surely Obama and his team anticipated this reaction. Not to would have been….naive.
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Our Pakistani Allies
In another demonstration of diplomatic silliness, the Pakistanis have convicted the doctor who helped us find Osama bin Laden of treason and sentenced him to 33 years in prison. This helps to clarify which side the Pakistanis are actually on. Hint: it’s not ours. I’ll have more about this in my print column tomorrow.
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- It’s well worth re-visiting this New York magazine story from October.
