McCain: On second thought, I support President Bush’s warrantless wiretap program and president’s warpowers trump the laws and the courts.
We’ve had a lot of requests for Sen. McCain’s already-legendarily awful prebuttal to Obama speech. And here it is …
After much consideration, we’ve decided that tomorrow’s episode of TPMtv will simply have to be a round-up of all the pundit response to the McCain trainwreck. Even the Foxies couldn’t help dumping on it.
One of TPM’s faves, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), went down last night. She was Sen. Pete Domenici’s hand-picked successor in New Mexico, but she lost in the GOP primary to Rep. Steve Pearce.
Wilson earned her TPMmuckraker bona fides with the phone calls she and Domenici made to then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to pressure him to bring corruption indictments against state Democrats in the run-up to the 2006 mid-term elections. Soon after his refusal to comply, Iglesias was canned by the White House.
In other down-ballot action, Sen. Frank Lautenberg pummeled Rep. Rob Andrews in the Democratic primary in New Jersey.
We were just going over today’s episode of TPMtv. And I think my favorite ‘look on the bright side’ moment from the Fox News contributors’ reaction to the McCain trainwreck was when Fred Barnes said how Gerald Ford actually ended up becoming a better speaker over time.
Clinton-backer Hilary Rosen …
Senator Clinton’s speech last night was a justifiably proud recitation of her accomplishments over the course of this campaign, but it did not end right. She didn’t do what she should have done. As hard and as painful as it might have been, she should have conceded, congratulated, endorsed and committed to Barack Obama. Therefore the next 48 hours are now as important to the future reputation of Hillary Clinton as the last year and a half have been.
M.J. Rosenberg says Obama needs to make his VP choice by the end of the month.
From his perch in Turkey, Jim Sleeper surveys the challenge facing Obama — and America — because of his race.
Todd Gitlin begs the media to stop perpetuating the “Obama is condescending” meme.
Jo-Ann Mort assesses Obama’s and Hillary’s speeches this morning to AIPAC.