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It's hard to find a politically pleasing picture of a nuclear power plant.

Why isn't Barack Obama soundly beating McCain? Because, says Obama, the media gave him a free pass during the Democratic primaries.

Did you know that Tim Pawlenty's pastor is the head of the National Association of Evangelicals?

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Jack Shafer on the cannonization of Tim Russert.

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The "loose cannonization" of Tim Russert.

Tim Russert, 1950-2008, he died far too suddenly.

Posted by robert ethan | June 17, 2008 4:53 PM

Tim was MASSIVE in the political world.
He packed a JOLT.
His star shone bright, sometime to the OCCLUSION of all others in the feild.
His SUDDEN passing caused BLINDING PAIN and left his fans SHAKING their heads in disbelief.
Time to put aside the CRUMPLED handkercheifs, and to generously HEAP praise on the man.
When the House convenes he will be honored,
ON THE FLOOR.

Posted by robert ethan | June 17, 2008 5:08 PM

Um, that'd be "canonization".

Posted by THS | June 17, 2008 5:24 PM

Shhhh..."cannonization" works better for my purposes. :)

Posted by robert ethan | June 17, 2008 5:27 PM

The polls have flattened out south of where Obama was at the end of the Dem Primary campaign. I would argue that the lack of media attention given to McCain during the past few months has inflated Obama's numbers rather than deflated them. If he is at +4 now, hot on the heels of a riveting in which he emerged victorious (debatable), I would say he has some serious problems.

As much as the candidates appear together in the same venue, (none if Obama had his way, lots if McCain had his way) the gap will be eaten away. I'm confident that McCain will gain traction from going one on one with Obama even more than Hillary did.

Posted by robert ethan | June 17, 2008 6:33 PM

That'd be 'canonization'.

For 'cannonization', cf. Ildebrando Zacchini.

Posted by RonK, Seattle | June 17, 2008 6:46 PM

Er Mark? Did you not see that the Kindle is second prize?

Posted by Eliel Mamousette | June 17, 2008 8:11 PM

Err, Eliel, did you not see that Marc's name is spelled with a "c" when you read his blog every day?

mea culpa Mr. Ambinder

Posted by Eliel Mamousette | June 17, 2008 8:14 PM

"Cannonization" seems to work for Russert. Why do journalists have so much trouble with religious terms? Today I was reading the Newsweek column on Russert and there was a reference to parochial school detention being called the "jug", which the article explained as relating to the Latin word for yolk. That puzzled me until I figured out they probably meant yoke, as in "his yoke is easy and his burden light".

Posted by dn1021 | June 18, 2008 8:52 AM