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- John McCain cranks up what Kevin Drum calls the "computerized pander-matic machine" and proposes a ridiculously pointless federal gas tax holiday.
- Obama is willing to consider considering criminal charges for members of the Bush administration. I'd support that in an ideal world, but practically it seems like it would distract from actually getting progressive policies enacted.
- Christopher Beam argues that Clinton is wildly overplaying her hand on the "bitterness" question.
- Ben Smith points out that Obama has done a great job in this and other crises to fight back and make "gaffes" less damaging than they might have been. This is something liberal writers have been clamoring for for years, but it's great to see it in action and I think Obama has gotten too little credit for it.
- Condi Rice makes a shermanesque statement about McCain's VP slot. Of course, if Sherman announced a run for President the next day nobody would have cared...
- I really really really hate arguments of the form "if X did Y blah blah blah would happen" but can you imagine what would happen if a Democrat presented a bunch of recipes from a food network website as their own? But since we all know McCain is a politician with sincerity of a kind that has never before been seen in such depth or with such care, this obviously won't matter.
- Human Events discovers that Obama's "complicity with rappers dates back to at least 2006." The whole article is pretty much the whitest thing I've ever read.
- There was some question a while back over whether Joe Lieberman's claims that the Democratic Party is moving leftward were examples of a full Zell-Miller-style transformation coming. I said yes, and given that he's now saying that it's a "good question" whether Obama is a marxist, I'm pretty confident in that prediction.
--Sam Boyd
