My colleague David Von Drehle just made it through the mags. He reports it took him two hours and 24 minutes–and says the line is getting longer. Will.I.Am is now singing “Yes We Can.” Also, I’ve checked with the Obama campaign on a sensitive ethical issue. They say if I buy a soda, I will [...]
Just to give you a sense of what it’s like here: I showed up at 2:30 (six full hours before Obama is supposed to speak) and discovered a line that had to be at least a mile long. It took me an hour and 50 minutes to make it as far as the magnetometers, but [...]
One of John McCain’s health care advisers has proposed a novel solution to the nation’s health insurance problems: stop counting those who don’t have health insurance, since anyone can get health care if they go to an emergency room. Therefore…everybody’s covered. To which one can only say: huh? But I’ll let Ezra Klein, health policy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted for Amy Sullivan It’s three nights into the Democratic Convention and a pattern is emerging. A number of speakers have made reference to their personal friendship with John McCain, carefully noting how much they admire him, before going on to criticize him. And that’s effective to a point–”more in sorrow than in anger” plays [...]
Posted for Amy Sullivan Joe Biden may not be the son of a mill-worker, but he reminded us he is the son of Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, just in case you forgot he’s Irish. I love that when he told the story of coming home after getting beaten up as a kid and having her [...]
Posting for Amy Sullivan, again. I agree with you, Karen–that version of John Kerry might actually have won in 2004. Earlier this evening I was reading through his acceptance speech. That year, Kerry mentioned Bush exactly twice in the whole speech. Instead of going after Republicans directly, he constantly referred to the elusive “they.” He [...]
