John Dickerson:The McCain campaign is unusually upbeat. Does it have reason to be?No. This has been...In addition to which, since when is it "unusual" for presidential campaigns to be "upbeat?" What do you expect a spin doctor to say? "John, we're completely screwed. We'd sign...
Month: October 2008
Morons, all of them:There was undisguised hostility toward the federal government and the FBI at the Stevens event, with people wearing T-shirts that said "F*#@ the feds, vote for Ted.""Anyone.
I was working so have only seen brief excerpts -- was it this good? Certainly, Tom Brady is even better than Katarina Witt. (I'm guessing that very few people still.
I am pleased that Jamie Moyer will receive a World Series ring. I have no idea how many games I watched Moyer start at Safeco and the Kingdome, but it's not a small number. I wish it could have happened in 2001, but congrats nevertheless.I...
Lots of commentary on Bing West's attack on Nir Rosen today; see especially Ackerman and Abu M. A couple points of my own:It's obviously different in a lot of ways,.
Congrats to Philadelphia's local athletic club for winning their professional sports competition. A few notes:The Rays seemed to spend the series proving my egregiously misplaced skepticism retroactively correct. They played like a talented but inexperienced team, symbolized for me by Upton lunging at the first...
Looks like the idea of stripping Joe Lieberman of his Homeland Security Chairmanship is being floated publicly. Obviously, given his stumping for McCain (including at the GOP convention), the Democratic.
Shameful:University of Kentucky police are investigating who hung an effigy of Democrat Sen. Barack Obama from a tree on the Lexington campus Wednesday morning.UK President Lee Todd said that UK.
I hate to admit it, but if I'm still living in Alaska four years from now, I sincerely hope Sarah Palin runs for the presidency, because I could really use the extra writing income. My dogs' knee surgeries aren't going to pay for themselves!
So far as contrarianism goes, this is an especially lame effort to question the wisdom of Obama's half-hour campaign spot:While Obama hasn’t made many strategic mistakes in his campaign against.
I had been mildly warming to the idea of keeping Robert Gates on for a time as Secretary of Defense under a hypothetical Obama administration; he's done a credible job,.