Hillary Clinton missed some opportunities tonight. Her complaint at the beginning about the format of the debate seemed to fall flat. She might have done better with a brief lament about the consequences when the press goes soft on a presidential candidate by arguing, as Democrats do, that George W. Bush received far gentler handling [...]
He won. He not only won by not losing, but he also won on points–and on demeanor, and on quickness, if not quite substance (although this was a fairly substantive debate on both sides). A few points: –On health care: she’s right and he’s wrong. His implication that she would force people “who can’t afford [...]
There were contrasting columns in the nation’s leading newspapers today. In the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne agrees with Clark Hoyt, the New York Times’ public editor, that the Times disastrously and unprofessionally injected unproven allegations of a sex scandal into its quad-authored story about John McCain’s ties to a telecom lobbyist. But Dionne goes on [...]
Here‘s my Q&A with Ralph Nader today, a shortened verision of which will appear in the dead tree edition this week.
I remember clearly the first time I heard Barack Obama’s middle name. It was November 28, 2006, and the Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers was on Hardball. “Count me down as someone who underestimates Bar-Ack Hu-Sane Oh-Bama,” said Rogers, exaggerating his southern accent for effect. “Put me down as somebody that counts him out.” Rogers was [...]
