… In effect, what journalists and voters do when they encounter presidential contenders—asking questions, assessing the candidate’s reactions—is a form of stress-testing that candidates must endure and pass if they hope to win their party’s nomination and ultimately the White House. If a candidate can’t figure out the best way to handle a question by The Washington Post’s Dan Balz (a very nice, eminently fair, and highly professional guy), then would we really want him or her to be our president? CONT.
Charlie Cook