If your purpose is to show that Governor Palin can hold her own in a meeting with major international figures, then let her hold her own. Don't exclude the press. Don't keep questions from being asked. Don't -- don't coddle her.

I don't know that I have seen very many politicians more likable than Barack Obama. He's got remarkable appeal.

I think David's right, that -- that Obama needs to get much sharper, much crisper in both the indictment of Bush and McCain, and linking them back together, and ignoring Palin.

If McCain is a maverick reformer, then I'm a Hasidic diamond merchant.

As an American, who has family in active-duty military, I'm petrified.

I think this whole thing for McCain is about politics. And I say that really with some surprise. It is in a sense this is going to upset McCain, he's exactly like George W. Bush, utterly political to his core.

Eighteen million people, Americans all, decided that Barack Obama had enough experience.

Senator Obama said that Hillary Clinton would have to be on anybody's short list, and apparently not his.

Yes, in short, yes. Many of them will be, not all of them.

If he runs a convention like John Kerry did, where we speak no ill about the party opposite, he'll lose just like John Kerry did.

If Barack does his job in his speech, nothing else will matter. And he has never disappointed in a major speech.

There are sadly plenty of politicians who went on after affairs like this to have careers in Washington or another appointed offices.