Pols to watch

Feingold scores a home run in a discussion of Iraq.

Fourth, he used a chessboard metaphor to explain that the fight against Al Qaeda is taking place in dozens of countries around the world. Therefore, what the President is advocating, according to Feingold, is that we fight only in "one square" and not on the whole board.

Read the whole thing for some other plain speaking that hits all the right reality notes. Forget comparisons with Kerry: this looks hearteningly like plain ol' leadership.