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Pride and honor
What’s the Pig Deal? So says the headline on a Washington Post headline. Funny headline by another group of people who see John McCain as this hero gone wrong. With a phony flap and a misleading attack ad, the McCain campaign sinks into silliness. Thursday, September 11, 2008; A16 IT’S HARD to think of a…
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That day seven years ago . . .
Memories are a funny thing. For instance, I miss the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. I miss them not in the way you miss some beloved architectural marvel, or cherished place. It held no mystery to me. I don’t miss the roaring murmur and the apparitional faces of multitudes of commuters going everywhere…
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His erstwhile friends
I promise to tell the truth always about my intention and my beliefs. Sen. John McCain, Republican presidential candidate Some of my fellow bloggers and pundits (the redoubtable Andrew Sullivan, for instance, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, and Time’s Joe Klein, to name just a few) had long labored under the illusion that John McCain was a…
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John McCain, that champion of women
As Republicans cry sexism at anyone who dares to question Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s qualification, here is a reminder of how craven Sen. John McCain has been in this whole quest to get the Republican nomination. He had an opportunity not to dignify a demeaning reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton and his answer was: “That’s…
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Richter’s scale
I have written a couple of times on this and I was wrong both times. The first time, I thought Scott Richter’s emergency Alaska court filing to have his divorce papers sealed was to conceal an affair he had with the moose hunter from The Alaskan Tundra (I was not the only one but that…
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Kinsley’s take
Sarah Palin’s Alaskonomics By Michael Kinsley, Time magazine, Tuesday, Sep. 09, 2008 Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human being because she isn’t a journalist and has never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey. Although Palin…
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McCain & Bush: Soul Brothers
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We should all be Republicans!
Alright, calm down. Let me rephrase. It just should not be possible that Republicans stand any ghost in heck of a chance of winning any office on Nov. 4, let alone the presidency of the United States. Yet, here they are and here we are. Sen. John McCain is buoyant, ascendant, barnstorming the nation, Alaska…
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Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska
Newsweek magazine, despite a generally laudatory profile of Sarah Palin, serves up some inconvenient facts to counter the myth that she and her state have been swathed in since her nomination: Palin is not regarded as an introspective or intellectual type—not the sort who likes to mull the deepest nuances of every issue. In that…
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Maverick chronicles, I
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