Why can’t the Big Dog–a supremely talented one-on-one politician known for avoiding confrontations–control himself?
We have often argued here in Swampland over whether endorsements really “matter.” But some of them have meaning that goes beyond whether they actually move any votes. Back in the latter half of the Reagan era, when I was a brand-new reporter to Washington covering Capitol Hill, the Speaker of the House’s press secretary–an excitable [...]
The problem with John McCain’s 100 years in Iraq formulation isn’t that he’s calling for 95 more years of combat–he isn’t–but that he thinks you can have a long-term basing arrangement in Iraq similar to those we have in Germany or Korea. That betrays a fairly acute lack of knowledge about both Iraq and Islam. [...]
McCain gave the second of six speeches in his “Service to America” tour here at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA. The content was familiar to anyone who’s paid even mild attention to the candidate, which means it was probably totally new to the audience he gave it to: the current students of EHS. Apparently, [...]
