The charter landed about a half-hour ago in Chicago, to news that the McCain campaign has launched what Halperin is calling its “toughest attack ad yet.” But there’s a little problem with this line: And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. Sure enough, the accompanying [...]
The latest pool report has this revealing little exchange between a possible future President and a possible future Prime Minister: Obama told Cameron he plans to take a week off in August. The two men then began to chat about the need for time to recharge. Obama then shared some advice he said he was [...]
My London-based TIME colleague Catherine Mayer e-mails this account of what it looked like from the other end of the press scrum: The special relationship came pretty much unstuck today. You see, the British press and especially the still photographers felt that the US press corps was getting preferential treatment. You were allowed to stand [...]
If there is a perfect metaphor for the way that Obama seems to giving Europe the vapors, it was the first question he got this morning from the famously ferocious British press corps: Do you believe there’s a special relationship between the United States and Britain? He might as well have been asked, “Do you [...]
