Jonathan Alter on how the John McCain who's running for president is not the John McCain he knew…or thought he knew.
I don't have an article to link to about this but let the record show that I'm not too wild about Barack Obama's new-found interest in off-shore oil drilling. As a friend of mine notes, drilling off our coasts has nothing to do with our need for oil and will never do much to impact oil prices or reduce our dependency on foreign petroleum. It's mainly about slapping down the environmental movement.