“You just don’t turn it off like that.” A few hours after TIME.com posted that story (which will also be in dead-tree TIME this week), the Clinton and Obama press offices issued this joint statement: “We are working together to make sure the fall campaign and the convention are a success. At the Democratic Convention, [...]

Oh, so now McCain says it’s a good idea to inflate your tires. This is something new: He has taken to attacking Obama on positions where he agrees with Obama. Another example: he flayed Obama for his proposal to withdraw from Iraq, then said it was a “pretty good” timetable. Meanwhile, he also continues to [...]

When I was traveling with the McCain campaign last month in Ohio, I was struck by this moment at one of his town meetings. It seemed, at the time, like some of that trademark “straight talk”: Mary Houghtaling, who runs a hospice in Wilmington, Ohio, choked up as she told McCain of DHL’s plans to [...]

I think Rand Beers has the best take on the just-announced Hamdan verdict: “We waited seven years for this?”

Or, in this case, Harry Sargeant: The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy No. 5727, the 30-something owners of the Twilight Hookah [...]

I didn’t even know there was a “Chet Edwards boomlet” until Ezra explained it. His reasoning on why this guy you’ve never heard of (as opposed to some other guy you’ve never heard of) might be Obama’s VP pick: 1) Rep. Artur Davis [has said] …Edwards was the best southern politician in the country. [snip] [...]

It seems to me that this gleeful counterpunch thrown by Barack Obama shows exactly the sort of facility that Al Gore and John Kerry lacked as candidates….and it gets right to the heart of the teenaged, testosterone-addled irresponsibility of the McCain campaign. “These guys seem to be proud of their ignorance” cuts to the heart [...]