Notes on the Evening in Politics...

Post CNN debate— Did Hillary Clinton’s final moment seem a bit like John Edwards’ swan song in New Orleans not so long ago? (These things will soon be forgotten, no?)

…perhaps the junior Senator from New York is beginning to make her case for having run a respectable race— and deserving a place in the next Democratic Administration?

(See Memeorandum for discussion.)
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Oh, and by the way… John McCain seems to have laid down a Gary Hart sort of challenge to the media today...

Whatever one thinks about today's story in the Times... by denying all aspects of the piece, even as we read that the head of the FCC had responded to his 1999 letter on behalf of Vicki Iseman’s client, Paxson Communications, expressing “concern” about his intervention…well it’s... at the minimum, an invitation to investigate all aspects of the Iseman story.

Give it another week, then we’ll have a real idea about whether the Times was premature in running the story.

Either their reporting will die an ignominious death or it will be the undoing of the McCain candidacy. It’s frankly hard to believe they didn’t see the response coming to running it, so one has to wonder if they’ve got more…