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 [...]

I had to go all the way to Amman to finally meet a Swampland commenter in person. In my hotel lobby, as the pool was preparing to leave to set up for Obama’s arrival, I encountered none other than “Dr JTB,” who turns out to be Jacqueline Taylor Basker. She is lovely woman, a teacher [...]

This bothers me: Logan: “Do you have any doubts?” Obama: “Never.” A lot more than the 8-10 years thing. Unless, of course, you think that slip of the tongue means that he actually is planning to run the country for ten years, constitution be damned, etc. Sort of like how McCain accidentally revealed that he [...]

• “In the scene, Ledger, who plays the Joker, is terrorizing a ballroom filled with people. Leahy, a longtime batman fan, steps up to confront Ledger.” [The Hill] • “There’s a reason more than a few of his Democratic opponents like to call him ‘a Boy Scout with a switchblade.’”[Minnesota Monthly] • “I have seen [...]

I can’t understand why the New York Times won’t publish this from John McCain. The op-ed page clearly owes him equal time, after publishing Barack Obama last week. If the standard, as Times Op-Editor wrote in his memo, is “new information,” McCain’s op-ed clearly meets it: the new information is McCain’s inability to adjust his [...]

This morning, Bob Novak pens a column explaining what nearly every Republican in town is thinking: I asked one of the Republican Party’s smartest, most candid heavy hitters last week whether John McCain really has a chance to defeat Barack Obama in this season of Republican discontent. “No, if the campaign is about McCain,” he [...]