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- Josh Green goes deep inside the Clinton campaign to explain the meaning of Patti Solis Doyle's exit.
- It's getting harder and harder to defend Jake Tapper. I was impressed with his work for a while, but now he seems intent on scandal-mongering to the exclusion of good sense. Today he passes on without criticism a 1,400 word article from the Weekly Standard arguing that Obama is deeply uncharismatic (yes, really) when speaking without a teleprompter. Except that then Tapper links to video of the speech in question which ... is a normal Obama stump speech except that he occasionally looks down at his notes. Maybe I should become a conservative journalist, it sure seems a lot easier.
- Ron Paul is scaling back his campaign to focus on his run for reelection. He will not, however, endorse John McCain or even, it seems, support him in the general election. He says "“I can not support anybody with the foreign policy he advocates—you know, perpetual war … I think it’s un-American, unconstitutional, immoral, and not Republican,"
- No tears for McCain though, he's got Ollie North! And, yawn, Fred Thompson.
- And let's say a powerful woman mentions hand washing in an innocent context. Do you assume she made a faux pas because such a comment evokes Lady Macbeth? I hope not, because if you do you're pretty shockingly sexist. But if you don't then you're not the Weekly Standard's Joseph Bottum.
--Sam Boyd
