ATTACK-DOG DAYS
Tthe week before the week before this week’s scheduled gathering of the delegates and their media camp followers in Denver, the nominee-presumptive of the Democratic Party did something that is strongly recommended, and ought to be mandatory, for anyone who has just logged a year and a half’s worth of eighteen-hour days travelling in airplanes, making speeches, shaking hands with tens of thousands of strangers, answering numbingly repetitive questions, fending off attacks on everything from his position on insurance mandates to his alleged similarity to Paris Hilton, and trying to remember what it feels like to get a good night’s sleep: Barack Obama went on vacation. He did this in Hawaii, one of the fifty United States of America. Not only is Hawaii amply supplied with — read more on http://www.newyorker.com
