Charles Krauthammer (who surely should have been a British fighter pilot during the second world war with a name like that) is a prominent conservative columnist, highly regarded and influential in Republican circles, and fiercely partisan in his commentary. So it's no small thing when, through audibly gritted teeth, he pretty much admits the game is up:
You can't blame McCain. In an election in which all the fundamentals are working for the opposition, he feels he has to keep throwing long in order to keep hope alive. Nonetheless, his frenetic improvisation has perversely (for him) framed the rookie challenger favorably as calm, steady and cool...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he
had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama
has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable
convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William
Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self- definition -- do you
really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both
a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely
be enough to make him president.
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