Fred Kaplan puts the situation in perspective, calling out the current Administration for its “feckless” “support” of Georgian Democracy and also asking a few pointed questions after today’s squawk of neocons called for…well, whatever they’re calling for: A few counterquestions for those who rise to compare every nasty leader to Hitler and every act of [...]

• McCain doing his convention speech “in the round.” Odds are even he’ll try to turn it into a town hall as well. [Ambinder] • Please ignore the tracking polls behind the curtain. [Yglesias (now in a new location!)] • Explaing Obamania: “According to Mr. Howe, Gen Xers required niche marketing: ‘If too many people [...]

Joe has a good point about the strange deja vu that accompanies the spectacle of Iraq war supporters rattle their sabers against Russia. Andrew Sullivan points out what’s different this time: I’m struck by how Iraq still casts a shadow. On what grounds, after all, does the Bush administration condemn Russia? Launching a war without [...]

Obama brushes McCain back with his own celebrity charge: I guess this is all a subtle way of implying that McCain wants to have sex with George Bush?

I like the logic of this bold experiment in revisionist history from HRC flack Howard Wolfson: Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year… “I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton [...]

When a column starts off like this: The details of who did what to precipitate Russia’s war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute is rightly remembered as a minor [...]