John McCain and Sarah Palin have spent a lot of time recently whipping their yokel base into a frenzy over Barack Obama’s race, religion, and “associations.” Yesterday, McCain appeared to try and dial back the bigotry: Maybe McCain ought to get some credit for finally, if extremely reluctantly, rebuking the Republican mob for its...

I still think Bush’s urgent demand for action on the bailout is more like his post 9/11 push for the Patriot Act than his rush to war against Iraq. Either way, this is freakin...

Dan Senor, former senior advisor to the Coalition in Baghdad, says that on Meet the Press, Joe Biden made a series of stunning arguments in defense of his plan for segregation of Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines. When Mr. Biden first announced his partition plan in May 2006, Iraqi leaders and U.S. officials understood it to mean the establishment of strong...

Republican bloggers are all worked up today over this clip of Barack Obama on This Week With George Stephanopoulos: Notice that Obama was still talking when the video faded out?  Here’s the full version: See? That first clip is what we lawyers — I’m a lawyer — call bullshit. In fairness, Allah put the smackdown on his base by...

A lot was said about John McCain’s decision to appear in front a bright green backdrop the night Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination.  None of it was good.  Much of the criticism dealt with the way bright green made him look even older than he is. This is what that looked like: Tonight, McCain began his acceptance speech looking spry for a...