Shhhhhhh! Let’s keep it a secret! Presidents are mortal! Consider Wednesday’s USA Today in which Don Campbell was rather dismissive of the vice presidency, noting: “Let’s get serious. Unless you’re making morbid calculations, the vice-presidential nomination and the vice presidency itself are among the least reliable routes imaginable to reach the Oval Office.” “Let’s get [...]

It’s amazing how easy it is to manipulate the television pontificators. On the day after Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president, you would think CNN and MSNBC and their ilk would be awash in information that newly-attentive voters need to know in order to make sense of this remarkable historic event. Information such [...]

I knew I was losing it when I turned on the TV at 6:30 pm for the final roundup last night. That was way too early for anyone with a real life. Obama, McCain and Clinton wouldn’t speak for eons. Polls in Montana and South Dakota wouldn’t close for hours and here I was, with [...]

All the media hoopla over Scott McClellan’s book would lead someone to think that he had uncovered secret Bush-Cheney-Rove plans to nuke Iran. The most succinct comment on the tube came from Watergate specialist John Dean who said that the book corroborated what anyone but a Rip Van Winkle has known lo these years—the staging [...]