Obama certainly should’ve won it, given the “train wreck” (McCain’s term, interestingly) that the Republicans have given us under George W. And yet –
I think this analysis of “winning” is correct: You make the key points that stick in people’s minds (and are replayed to death by cable news), and you win the forcefulness contest. […]

Just watched the poor man on CBS News — online, his interview with Katie Couric ran 11 minutes total. Here’s what McCain said:
1) The Wall Street situation is “the worst crisis since World War II.” Not the worst financial crisis — which it isn’t either. No, the worst crisis. Worse than the Korean War. Worse […]

Here’s the thing that just stops me cold about John McCain. By the many accounts of his journalist-pals who, presumably, have it from the horse’s mouth, McCain wanted to run with Joe Lieberman as his VP candidate: in other words, the actual bipartisanship that he espoused last night. And from McCain himself, we have it […]