In a lengthy and fascinating psychologically-oriented profile, the Washington Post goes inside what it calls "the curious mind of John McCain" and finds a man "often at war with himself," prone to self-lacerating criticism, and driven by emotion. [Washington Post]
As both candidates campaign in Florida today, the fall-out from yesterday's confrontation over that Paris Hilton ad continues, with McCain campaign manager Rick Davis accusing Obama of playing the race card, and both campaigns competing to sound more loftily disappointed in the behaviour of the other. [New York Times]
Apparently in all seriousness, the Wall Street Journal asks whether -- in a country where 66% of the voting-age population is overweight -- skinny, gym-going Barack Obama might not be "too fit to be president". ("He's too new... and he needs to put some meat on his bones," says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas.) [Wall Street Journal]
Wal-Mart sails dangerously close to the law with a series of meetings at which it informs employees that it's not telling them how to vote in the November election -- but that if a Democratic president were to win, he might remove their sacred right to not be part of a union. (Fun employment law fact: it's legal for US companies to tell salaried workers how they ought to vote, but not those paid by the hour.) [Wall Street Journal]
David Rees's brilliant cartoon strip Get Your War On chronicled the most brain-twistingly surreal days of the Bush administration. Here's the first episode of the new animated version. [23/6]
