Having explored grammatical matters in the Obama and Clinton camps, it's time to visit John McCain. Not McCain himself, as it happens, but an article in the April 17 New York Review of Books, titled "Molehill Politics," by Elizabeth Drew, the NYRB's veteran political writer.
The article notes that an all-out fight to the convention between Obama and Clinton "could only benefit the Republicans' punitive, and unexpected, nominee, John McCain."
"Punitive nominee"? I know it will be a punishing campaign, but surely this should be "putative." Would someone wake the NYRB's copyeditor?
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I fear the "punitive" before McCain's name may well refer to what those of us who don't vote for him are in for from 2009-2012.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
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