In
the old days, the Time “Milestone”
would have read like this:
DIED: Five years, six
months and 30 days after the conclusion of “The American Century”; the credibility of a once great publishing institution founded by Henry Robinson Luce; following decades of dunderhead leadership, complicated by footsying with Hollywood and Steve Read More
For starters, a personal word.
Twenty-six weeks ago, this column got going with the story of an encounter on a cool April night in 1971 with a tall, young ex-Navy lieutenant in a veterans’ tent pitched on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
The next morning, he led a march to the Capitol of the Read More
“There are three kinds of lies,” Disraeli purportedly said. “Lies, damned lies and statistics.” The polls this week brought proof.
One hopes.
In case you were too timid to catch the latest, four national surveys of “likely voters” (CNN/ USA Today/Gallup, Time, Newsweek, ABC News/ Washington Post) have George W. Bush widening his lead Read More
The war thought safely over bit John Kerry anew this week, just when he was beginning to nudge ahead in the polls. And, boy, did it bite deep.
Yes, dear reader, Vietnam is back. Again? Afraid so. And if you thought the Swift boat stuff was awful, brace yourself: This is worse.
Unless decency Read More
Still heated by John Kerry’s performance in Coral Gables, Fla., the night before, a couple of hundred people jammed the Asia Society’s auditorium on Oct. 1 to see a movie glorifying Mr. Kerry and then walked four blocks through the tranquil Upper East Side to the Council on Foreign Relations for dinner. The movie was Read More
Tomorrow the big day comes: John F. Kerry and George W. Bush toe-to-toe in the first Presidential debate, which really isn’t.
A debate, that is.
Ninety nationally televised minutes of alternating stump-speech snippets is what the encounter actually amounts to, with style (maybe even height) as important as content.
So Lincoln-Douglas this is Read More
John Kerry hadn’t held a formal press conference in nearly six weeks.
Good.
Reporters traveling with the candidate had expressed their unhappiness by posting a sign that kept track of the days since the last “availability.” Mr. Kerry ignored it.
Even better.
Mary Beth Cahill—still in charge of the campaign, despite months Read More
The last seven days brought this: Dick Cheney suggested that the election of John Kerry would result in “devastating” terrorist attack. (His nominal boss merely opined that Mr. Kerry is a fan of Saddam Hussein.) Two generals informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that the C.I.A., in contravention of international and military law, kept up Read More
Once upon a time, Republicans were pretty much like everybody else. Only richer.
The dads ran plants and offices; were doctors and lawyers and businessmen; belonged to Kiwanis and Rotary; groused about social programs and the taxes they had to pay to support them; played golf at nice country clubs and bought Buicks every other Read More
Remember Bob Dole?
You know, the guy from the Viagra commercials, who used to be U.S. Senator, and the Republicans thought would be just the ticket to keep Bill Clinton from a second term, because he had a gimp arm from World War II while Slick had done handstands not to serve? Wife named Liddy Read More
