Rising to the Occasion

I want to recommend the whole transcript of Michael Gordon's interview with John Edwards. Gordon asks him a bunch of tough, skeptical, well-informed questions. And Edwards answers them well. It's not just an interesting interview that casts Edwards in a good light, but really in a lot of ways shines a light on how political reporting could be made about a thousand times more useful to readers -- Gordon knows what he's talking about and eschews softballs, but at the same time he's respectful like he and his audience would actually like to hear John Edwards explain why he's changed his mind about Iraq over time rather than use the question to nail him to the wall.