Howard Kurtz Says It's Over

Whatever else one can say about this article, one can lay a safe bet that Kurtz will probably not be invited to the Clintons' Fourth of July party this year. Whether Kurtz is essentially right or is getting ahead of the story, what this points out is the dangers for a politician in lashing out at the press, though it is certain that all politicians and government figures would happily see them gathered together and kept locked in an isolate rural prison camp. For their own protection, of course...

I happened to catch the MSNBC bio on John McCain last night, or at least a part of it. A fascinating story, at least the parts that I saw. McCain comes across as a curious personality, prone to plane crashes, literally and figuratively. I can't get out of my mind the joking line from Pat Buchanan that if McCain was elected that he'd make Dick Cheney look like Gandhi. What an image. It also struck me that when McCain was lashing out at Obama yesterday he was speaking (if one can judge from the sound of the crowd) to a group of a few hundred or so, while Obama's response was delivered to one of his halls with five thousand or so.

Arthur