I have a piece on Obama’s performance in Iowa last week, speculating he may have — to borrow a phrase — finally “turned up the heat.” There’s definitely a different feel to the campaign these days. As senior adviser David Axelrod put it: “It’s a much more visceral message now. It’s much more from his gut … the stakes are high, and he wanted to make sure his full motivations were clear.”
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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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Morning Must Reads: Revisited
- ”Uncommitted” and a perennial candidate gave Obama a run for his money last night in Arkansas and Kentucky primaries. It’s almost as if he might lose those states, which McCain won by about 20 points in 2008, this fall.
- A WSJ/NBC poll finds that very few people are familiar with or have an opinion about Bain Capital.
- We’ll indulge the private equity debate anyway: Here’s David Brooks, Tim Noah and Steve Rattner.
- It’s well worth re-visiting this New York magazine story from October.
