Just in time for your weekend downloading enjoyment (and probably a tad too late for the network news to do much with them), Bill and Hillary Clinton present THEIR 2000-2006 TAX RETURNS. (Reporters will be poring over them for weeks, but I wanted to make sure Swampland readers got a jump on tomorrow’s headlines today. [...]
A Pew Research Center poll out today attests once again to an interesting phenomenon. While everyone and everything around her is sinking into the mire, the Secretary of State continues to hold a place of high regard with the American people, scoring 56% approval in the poll. Consider this: Her boss is at 28%; Dick [...]
Not gonna happen.
Jay: All this gloomy talk about jobs is interesting, considering how Hillary Clinton’s most high-profile supporter in the state–Governor Ed Rendell–sees the situation in Pennsylvania. He suggests that the economic picture there is somewhat more complex than either of the candidates would have us believe. In an interview a few weeks back, Rendell told me [...]
On Time.com, I just posted a piece on some of the known details of John McCain’s misspent youth, which the candidate has made central to his biographical argument for the White House this week. McCain tells a story of redemption and discovery, of a wild, rebellious kid who grew to discover the power of service [...]
Two of the talking points regurgitated by Bush Administration–and neoconservative–spokespeople over the past year have been: Muqtada al-Sadr’s strength is waning and the Iraqi Security Forces are getting stronger. As with almost everything that involves U.S. Iraq analysis, those projections have proved to be equal parts wishful thinking and horse manure as today NY Times [...]
