Now John McCain is accusing Barack Obama of 'playing the race card.' If any further demonstration were needed that McCain is doing inverse campaigning--campaigning as though he will of a certainty never have to hold the office he's nominally running for-- and also that McCain is Bush Three, this is it.

'Orwellian' is the term so often invoked to characterize the Bush-Cheney administration, its rhetoric, its policies if you call them that, etc, and with ample justification. I wrote columns, in little DC-area newspapers, about the term and its applicability, myself. Bush-Cheney may well retire the trophy for Orwellianisms in ...   more »