Quiet Out There

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We’re at that moment in the campaign that reminds me of a horror movie. There’s a kind of relief that the worst cannot happen, that the Clintons are politically dead, that our long national nightmare is over. The screen falls silent. We look at pleasant images: green grass, or a kitchen table scene, or a calm lovers’ embrace. But you know they have something left. They could come suddenly screaming back, like that hand out of the grave in Carrie or Glenn Close in the bathtub in Fatal Attraction. An Edwards endorsement? A March surprise?

Like Freddy or Jason, they still lurk, ready to pounce again. And the credits are yet to roll. Gulp.

Bush vs Obama

It can only help Obama. In fact, it’s campaign gold. You can tell that Bush is really feeling the heat from this guy already. He senses that this movement is a massive indictment of him, his clumsiness in foreign affairs, and his rigidity. He’s right. And the more Bush makes a vote for Obama a vote against Bush the more traction Obama will get.

That Dissent

I know, I know. There are almost no independent sources in the email. And it flies in the face of a lot of other reporting. But the emailer has been corresponding with me for a while and is in Iraq in the military. Yes, he may well be biased, as all soldiers are, in as much as he wants his mission to succeed. Which is a good thing. But we know so little for sure, and the signs and counter-signs are as complex as they are fluid, so I felt it worthwhile to air it. Surely our goal now must be to see things as clearly as we can. And put all perspectives on the table.