In the Arena

The McCain Interview

All right. Politicians hate these sorts of process questions–why aren’t you hanging out with the press the way you used to do?–but John McCain’s crude and angry response to my colleagues strikes me as further evidence of a man who has lost his bearings this year. I mean, he refuses to define what he means [...]

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About the Bush family’s toxic gift to presidential politics–ugly August. And while we’re at it, I disagree with my colleague Mark Halperin’s assessment of John Kerry’s speech last night: Kerry–the ultimate ugly August victim–said things that absolutely needed to be said about the degrading Atwater-Rove style of presidential politics. He was passionate, funny, liberated from [...]