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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!I read the news today, Oh Boy:ST. PAUL--A series of disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain's choice as running mate, called into question on Monday how thoroughly Mr. McCain had examined her background before putting her on the Republican presidential ticket. The first rule of picking a Vice President is to "do no harm." Well, consider this mission not accomplished. Like a hybrid echo of all the lousy picks and appointments from the Bush years (Harriet Miers, Michael Brown), Sarah Palin's was put forth in stunning, "Father Knows Best" fashion. What's clear now is that McCain ...
On yesterday's Clinton campaign conference call, I was particularly struck by this exchange, abridged slightly, between Slate's John Dickerson and Clinton spokesman Phil Singer: Dickerson: The expertise that Senator Clinton is claiming on the economy seems kind of at odds with the fact that you've got a broad ideologically-diverse group of experts who basically panned this idea of lifting the gas tax and one of the reasons they panned it is that they don't believe that the money is going to regular folks is actually going to happen. So, how is it that so many people of so many different ...
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