Tom Friedman: You thought I was done giving you advice on Iraq? Hah. Friedman critics, Suck. On. This. After analyzing the situation in Iraq carefully, I suggest things can go well, or things can go poorly. If we're lucky. But don't hold me to it.
Michael Gerson: The massive transfer of the world's wealth should disturb us. It's not going to Republicans.
Ruth Marcus: Obama's using financing from the public instead of public financing is audacious, outrageous and, in some vague way, naughty. "What's galling is Obama's effort to portray himself through this entire episode as somehow different from, and purer than, the ordinary politician." Not that Obama's wrong about how Republicans get around the rules, mind you, but that's what DC pundit spokesperson Richard Cohen says about Obama.
By the way, I'm running against Richard Cohen for the Alan Colmes Award for Washington's most irrelevant liberal. Vote for me.
Maureen Dowd: "Many of Obama’s traits are the traits that people in the population aspire to." Sigh. Ruth, let me explain what's going on.
Debra Saunders: Okay, McCain is old, boring, technologically illiterate and charisma challenged, but by God, McCain has the ol' "geezer chic". I was going to tell you why that trumps Obama's rock star persona, but I forgot what I was going to write.
Dave Weigel: Larry Johnson's Strange Trip. You can't make this stuff up (unless you're Larry Johnson).
Allan J. Lichtman: "With America’s attention riveted on the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, few [outside of Daily Kos] noticed that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain limped through his party’s late primaries." It's another symptom of the foundering of the conservative movement, and a warning to liberals to have something constructive in place to fill the vacuum.
Thomas B. Edsall: You think it looks bad for Republicans now? Just wait.
Amy Sullivan: Forget the polls, I can't read them anyway. McCain will fool pro-choice Republican women into voting for him, because pro-choice Republican women are low knowledge voters and always fall for voting Republican. Oh, I suppose it might have something to do with other issues. It might not even be pro-choice Democrats' fault, though it probably is. Somehow. But if not, that would leave me nothing to write about.