John McCain said this today in Rochester, New Hampshire: This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a [...]

Here’s my account for TIME.com of the news conference, which looked great on TV, but was blisteringly hot. My sleeveless blouse (a violation of the campaign’s dress code suggestions) did not seem to offend anyone, but I noticed women in Jordan wearing everything from burkas to spaghetti straps. As for the herculean feats: Alas, not [...]

I know this has already been widely mocked, but, well, it deserves to be some more. I look forward to Richard Cohen’s column next week, about the importance of regular colonoscopies.

The McCain people must be going insane: “Here is what I will say,” Obama said, “I think that, I did not anticipate, and I think that this is a fair characterization, the convergence of not only the surge but the Sunni awakening in which a whole host of Sunni tribal leaders decided that they had [...]

Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton’s first White House press secretary, sorts through the evidence of press bias in favor of Barack Obama in this fair-minded Vanity Fair blog post. Her verdict is that Obama has been getting both more, and more positive, attention from the press — for a variety of reasons, including ones that [...]

Dispatches from the Summer of Love, aka Working the Refs: More here. More here. More here. More here. More here.

We learned a lot more today about what the rest of the week will look like. I’m currently with the pool, waiting for Obama, and his road buddies, Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, to land in Amman. The site of the news conference should be spectacular. Word is they will enter through the Temple of [...]