Category: long story short

After tripping over themselves a few times right out of the gate, the Clark campaign is starting to look downright professional. Here are a few of the top stories from the last couple of weeks: Kerry, Gephardt, and Lieberman attack Dean’s electability. Dean strikes back. Clark testifies against the war criminal he bagged and gets…

I really should resist responding to Bill Safire’s op-eds in the Times, which lately have amounted to a form of trolling writ large. Also, I promised not to be all pro-Dean here at Edgewise. I have plenty of other outlets for that (Oakland for Dean, Tech4Dean, etc.). But Safire’s latest piece, Don’t Stop Dean is…

1. Saddam is captured. 2. There’s much rejoicing. Yay! Yay! 3. Then less then 10 days later we go to Orange Alert — “high risk of terrorist attacks.” Yikes. They’re planning something even bigger than 9/11, we’re told. And Osama OKd this attack personally. All while Saddam sits in a small room somewhere, after spending…

Interesting multi-page interview with Dean up on ABCnews.com, including a suggestion by the interviewer that Bradley might be a VP consideration. No real response from Dean of course, but that’s the first I’ve heard of a Dean/Bradley pairing, even as a hint of a whisper of 2/3 a piece of gossip. I hadn’t even considered…

Adam Nagourney at The Times seems to be having some fun at Kerry’s press secretary’s expense: Mr. Kerry’s press secretary, Stephanie Cutter, sent an e-mail message to news organizations listing remarks Dr. Dean had made over the past six months that she said demonstrated that his opposition to the war was "politically driven." But Ms.…

There’s a fascinating insta-article from Time covering Saddam’s first day as a prisoner. (Mad props to the always excellent Talking Points Memo for the link that sent me there in the first place.) The whole article is worth a quick look if only to be amazed, as I was, to see that Time already has…