On the front page of the New York Times this morning is a devastating, above-the-fold look at how the McCain campaign is distorting and lying its way to a lead in the polls. But the fact that the candidate is being called on it doesn’t seem to stop him from doing it. Take, for instance, [...]
On Page One of the Washington Post today, Michael Abramowitz has a more sympathetic view of that moment in the first Charlie Gibson interview where Sarah Palin seemed unfamiliar with the Bush Doctrine: Intentionally or not, the Republican vice presidential nominee was on to something. After a brief exchange, Gibson explained that he was referring [...]
There is a right-wing smokescreen emerging in an attempt to camouflage Sarah Palin’s utter unfamiliarity with the Bush Doctrine. The new line, assayed by Charles Krauthammer and Peter Feaver among others, is that there were many Bush Doctrines. That is untrue. There was only one Bush Doctrine. It was enunciated in this speech, delivered by [...]
