The Democratic Party hits back: And the McCain campaign doubles-down, with a new online-only Messiah spot, the most explicit so far: UPDATE: Note one of the quotes used on screen in the McCain ad is under dispute. UPDATE 2: Remember this? “An argument among friends.” Probably not. No one watched it at the time.
Over the last couple years, I have read probably 100 or more McCain profiles of various lengths and types, including a few book-length studies. This profile by Robert Kaiser, published in the Washington Post today, ranks among the best–capturing his quirks and contradictions and philosophical complexities in a short space. Perhaps the best part is [...]
And you thought I was superficial: But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he [...]
Kudos to our colleague Adam Zagorin for this reporting: According to a former senior American official, it appears another locale can be added to the international roster of interrogation sites — one both more obscure and potentially more controversial than the alleged sites in Poland and Romania. The source tells TIME that, in 2002 and [...]
In the midst of all the campaign hoo-hah, the New York Times is doing some really good reporting about the Pakistani military and intelligence services, and their covert ties to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It seems to me that our President is asking the right question here: Pakistan’s defense minister, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, told [...]
Eugene Robinson nails it today on the quadrennial Republican scum festival that begins in August of every presidential election year. It seems to me that Britney-boating isn’t going to be as lethal to Obama as swift-boating was to Kerry–indeed, it is more embarrassing than devastating–but that doesn’t make it any less intolerable. I mean, we’ve [...]
Question: What was the enormous upside to John McCain’s decision to compare Barack Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? Still have doubts? Click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and I could go on. Even counting those voters on vacation, what’s your guess for the percentage of Americans who have [...]
