Tag: McCain
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Thoughts on Sarah Palin
Longtime readers will remember that Sarah Palin was on my early short list for McCain. I said back in June that she might be a good pick if McCain found himself behind in the polls and needed a Hail Mary pass. Now that he’s made the pick, how does it look? First, Palin is undoubtedly…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you seen People magazine’s exclusive photo of the McCain and Palin families? Four members of the McCain and Palin familes are absent from the photo. Palin’s eldest son, Track, and McCain’s youngest son, Jimmy, are in the military and on deployment. McCain’s older son, Jack, is at the Naval Academy. Where’s Bridget McCain? Bridget…
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A master stroke
Let’s give the McCain campaign credit for one thing: They sure know how to steal the Democrats’ thunder. Democrats dominated the nation’s attention this week with their convention, culminating with their historic affirmation of Barack Obama as the first African-American to nominated for president by a major political party. Sen. Obama punctuated that with what…
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Shades of Nixon
The campaign of John McCain for president of the United States has been lurking in the gutter these past several weeks. Karl Rove’s henchmen, when they took over the faltering McCain campaign, they quickly surmised that they could not win on the issues. The American voters would not trust Republicans to fix the mess the…
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GOP Veepstakes
Word is out this evening that Sen. McCain is finalizing his vice-presidential pick tonight. Because we may know as soon as tomorrow who he’s chosen, it’s now or never for another round of veepstakes. If I were advising McCain, here’s who would be on my suggested short list: Tom Ridge Kay Bailey Hutchinson As a…
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But I was a POW!
It is obvious in this campaign that you cannot question McCain about anything without him bringing up the fact that he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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A wanderer arrives
When I was a young newspaper reporter (a nerdy one, at that) at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., one of the journalists I looked up to was Michael Powell. Mr. Powell was then at New York Newsday but he had passed through The Record in what was becoming an itinerant career, with stops at Newsday,…
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Waging a campaign–Two thoughts
Both Frank Rich and Bob Herbert had sound advice for the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama on the Op-ed pages of the New York Times this weekend. Echoing the theme of an essay I’m working on and still hoping to post, Herbert weighed in on Saturday with advice that Obama hew close to economic…
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The war prisoner card
The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain in recent weeks has brandished his stint as a war prisoner every time anyone deigned to criticize the good senator. The inimitable Maureen Dowd offered a catalog: So it’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of…
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Second slot
The New York Times Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate Selection Ends Two-Month Search By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY 6:40 AM ET Word of Senator Barack Obama’s decision leaked out hours after he had informed Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia that they had not been chosen. Washington Post: Obama…