Somehow I wound up here. The Hofstadter quote I wish they’d kept: In the end, I doubt if her departure from the race will diminish her reputation for superhuman control. In this reimagining of Hofstadter’s paranoid relationship, the press corps and pundits see in Hillary what she saw in Scaife and Gingrich. We may have [...]
It takes a certain amount of–well, the proper word escapes me, but it exists in a realm somewhere beyond chutzpah…for Mark Penn to write that the real problem with the Clinton campaign was that it didn’t raise enough money. Of course, the three words missing from the sentence are “to pay me.” It doesn’t occur [...]
This, by David Ignatius, is very smart. It demonstrates how foolishly simplistic the Bush Administration’s policy and rhetoric, and the campaign utterances of John McCain, have been. One quibble: Ignatius makes it sound as if the Qods force controls Mahdi Army strategy. Not true. In fact, now that it is clear to the Sadr circle–a [...]
