• Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
    McCain's surface-deep pick

    The thinking behind John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin makes sense—on the surface. No woman has ever been nominated for national office by the G.O.P., so the news will cause a stir, which will help McCain both in the short-term—as he tries to deny Barack Obama a meaningful convention bounce—and in the long-run, since the 72-year-old McCain has struggled to build excitement and capture headlines.

  • Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
    Obama camp: Palin has 'zero foreign policy experience'

    The Obama campaign is not giving an inch when it comes to John McCain choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. In a statement released Friday, there was no warm language about the first female Republican vice presidential nominee, just a straightforward hit.

  • Joe Conason - New York Observer
    A cut-and-paste foreign policy

    The discovery that John McCain’s remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing -- but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?

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