THE US REPORT

Pundits will be wagging those tongues tonight, after the New York Times rejected Sen. John McCain's essay about Sen. Barack Obama's essay 'My plan for Iraq' run recently. Drudge not only scooped the story, he ran McCain's entire essay. You wonder why I admire The Drudge--this is a perfect example. And you can't ask for more, because Drudge has the long reach, way beyond the NYT readership. You really just can't ask for more than a whole essay run at the most highly trafficked website in the universe, a website that has garnered so much influence and attention there's even a copycat site done by a liberal, and no, I am not listing the link to that one.

I read McCain's essay, and just like the Arizona senator, it's straight, unfettered and to the point. I am at the moment reading both of Obama's books. I started with 'The Audacity of Hope,' and I experienced a revelation. Obama is an excellent writer, philosopher and even maybe a poet. His prose reads gracefully, like poetry. I don't know a single brilliant writer or poet I'd turn the country over to, especially with the Democratic Party in control of Congress.