Today's Columns: McCain's Failing Campaign
NYT: Gail Collins documents John McCain's imploding campaign, and argues that voters are cooling to McCain's presidential bid for the same reason they are warming to Hillary Clinton's: "We like to imagine that" voters want candidates who stick to their convictions, "but in fact we only love politicians who stick to our convictions," she writes ... Nicholas Kristof wonders if Vice President Dick Cheney and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are twins separated at birth. "Both men are hawks who defy the international community, scorn the U.N. and are unpopular at home because of incompetence and recklessness -- and each finds justification in the extremism of the other."
LAT: Timothy Garton Ash argues that Iraq has "not yet begun in terms of the consequences for Iraq itself, the Middle East, the United States' own foreign policy and its reputation in the world." He adds that "as far as the human eye can see, the likely consequences of Iraq range from the bad to the catastrophic."
WaPo: Haleh Bakhash, daughter of Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American scholar who has been imprisoned in Iran for the past 6 ½ months, analyzes a taped interview with her mother that broadcasted in Iran yesterday. "It was obvious from the words she used that much of what my mother said was scripted." She adds: "Her statements, to me, sounded wooden -- unnatural and coerced. But did she say anything incriminating? Certainly not."
Plus ... Robert Novak on why Democrats are against free trade.
WSJ: Regina Herzlinger wonders where our health-care entrepreneurs have gone. "While there is innovation in the medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy," she writes.
Plus ... Nir Boms on the latest round of hostage taking in Iran.
By Rob Anderson |
July 19, 2007; 9:42 AM ET
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Mr Nicholas from NYT fails to realise and seems compelled to potray a false notion that Mahmood Ahmadinejad is hated at home. The truth is infact he is a democratically elected leader of Iran. He may be considered as a radical by some but there stil no denying the fact he is still enjoys strong support at home, the people who oppose him at home are just enough to be called a minority.