This piece, today’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine, is long and complicated, and it may not even be right–vast global geo-strategic syntheses rarely are–but it does get you thinking…and what it got me thinking about was John McCain. You watch McCain talking about the world and it very quickly becomes apparent that [...]
Well, the John and Teddy wings may be going for Obama, but the Bobby clan seems to moving in a different direction. This statement from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was just released by the Clinton campaign: “I respect Caroline and Teddy’s decision but I have made a different choice. While I admire Senator Obama greatly, I [...]
Last week, the political arm of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family released an online video voter guide to help Christians sort through the “pro-family” records of the presidential candidates. The guide offers largely negative appraisals of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, and a far more glowing description of Mitt Romney. But not [...]
As Joe did, I spent the final two days before the South Carolina primary seeing the Clinton campaign up close–in my case, from the vantage point of Hillary Clinton’s press bus. The most enthusiastic response she received was at a community center run by Freedom Temple Ministries in Rock Hill. Over the years, I have [...]
