During this holiday week, postings will be light or nonexistent. The regular schedule will resume next Monday. I'll return this week only if a candidate says something truly remarkable or revealing. For instance...
Mitt Romney: "Now that I remember it, I think I may have accompanied my father when he may have gone varmint-hunting with Martin Luther King, although that may depend on the dictionary definition of may."
Hillary Clinton: "If that stinker husband of mine doesn't shut up, my first act as president will be to send him on an open-ended goodwill tour of the NASA International Space Station."
Fred Thompson: "Didn't I quit this race already, or am I confusing myself with Tommy Thompson?"
Chris Dodd: "This race isn't nearly as much fun as getting publicly soused back in the day with Teddy Kennedy."
Rudy Giuliani: "Why do I need this grief? I'm outta here. Cashing in on 9/11 is a heckuva lot easier than trying to exploit 9/11 for political purposes."
Joe Biden: "I gotta stop boasting to people that I've been in the Senate for 35 years. Because their first reaction probably is, 'This country's gone to hell in a handbasket since the early '70s, and what has this guy ever done about it?'"
Mike Huckabee: "What do I need foreign policy advisors for? Jesus is my briefer. And if, as president, He advises me to invade Iran, who am I to say no?"
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And my last print column of '07 offers an advance transcript of the next Democratic presidential debate, featuring The Thing That Wouldn't Leave. Holiday cheers to you all.
About Me
- Dick Polman
- Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters, and lauded by the ABC News political website as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation," Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. This online column is cited by The Washington Post as one of the top five mainstream political blogs in the country, and is touted by former "Hardball" TV producer Howard Mortman as "the immediately must-read political blog." Dick has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC. He covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns. In his 22 years at the Inquirer, he has also been a foreign correspondent based in London; a baseball writer covering the Philadelphia Phillies; a general-assignment writer in the feature section; and a longtime Sunday magazine contributor. In the early '80s, he wrote three metro columns a week for the Hartford Courant. A graduate of George Washington University, today Dick is on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "writer in residence."