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The media have so far focused on uncovering personal faults in Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her family. As opposed to covering her record in expanding employment opportunities for Alaskans, while delivering energy to the rest of the nation. As mayor of Wasilla, she delivered growth and jobs, as she continued to do governor.
What exactly has Barack Obama done for his constituents when it comes to jobs? Aside from the feckless grants he gave to ineffective programs that failed to improve the education of Chicago public schools students.
The unemployment rate in Chicago is 7.5 % as of August 21st, far above the national average.
What is Obama doing about un-employment in Chicago?
More shot dead in Chicago than Iraq
22 hours ago
Almost 125 people were shot and killed in Chicago over the summer - nearly double the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq over the same period, a US media study has showed.
A total of 123 people were shot and killed throughout the Windy City between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26 and the end of summer on Labour Day, September 1.
During the same period, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq, US Defence Department figures showed.
Local news station CBS2 compiled its figures from its reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police major incidents log.
In the same period, an estimated 245 people were shot and wounded in the city.
Most of the city's shootings were gang-related, authorities said.
What is Obama doing about violence in Chicago?
Chicago Mayor Daley: 'There's no machine'
Bruce Thompson
Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley is quoted as saying so in Thrusday's Chicago Sun-Times
''Chicago and the metropolitan area is very Democratic and the state is. [But] there's no machine. I thought it was laughable.'
The Obama campaign doesn't want the public to think that Barack Obama has ties to the Daley machine, and there is a good reason. The image of a pol working his way up the Daley Machine to the presidency hardly firs the carefully constructed image of reform, hope and change.
As to the current status of the Daley Machine, let's consult Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown
'No, it's too much. Somebody needs to tell him. Somebody needs to tell Bill Daley 'no.' He has no business running for governor of Illinois, not as long as brother Rich is mayor of Chicago and brother John is finance chairman of the Cook County Board.
No family should control that much political power.'
What is Obama doing about corruption in Chicago?
When comparing the canmdidates, look to the home states of those running, all of them have one they serve as politicians and see what porgress they can claim.
better do spell check. It will be interesting to see how Palin holds up to questions without a script in front of her. She isn't running against Obama, but she darn well could end up in the big chair IF McCain wins this election, so we need to give her as much scrutiny - much more so than Biden. We already know he is well qualified.
If you want to scrutinize someone, start with that neophyte boy-king you libnazis are pimping to the public. Honestly, he reminds me of one of thise boy-gods you see in Buddhist pictures, all dressed up on some kind of God-Carryall, in his silk pajamas, looking befuddled as if no one told him what he was there for.
Obama is exactly where he is because the dems have an Equal Opportunity clause in their nomination process, favoring negros who want to now be President, but lack ALL the credentials. If he were white, his name would be Edwards. I have to give them credit though, they REALLY believe in Equal Opportunity, unless you are a woman!
Then you have the unmitigated gall to suggest that Biden is, somehow qualified, when he is noting more than an old, tired, obstructionist, plagerizing dem lib apparatiachick, picked after you flushed a woman with 18000000 votes and sent her back to the senate, when Biden got fewer votes than Palin did for mayor of Buttf--k Alaska!
Scrutinize????
Palin did that the other night. Go lick those wounds.
Palin did a great job reading the speech prepared for her now why won't they let her start answering questions so we can see how she will do without a scripted answer? They keep saying she will when she's ready - well, people, time is running out. The public deserve to know what she's really about, not sometime in the future when she's ready!!!
..she debuted just last Thursday, and finished up the convention Friday. I'm sure she needs 8 hours sleep, even if you are impatient. If you did not see her speech, I'm wondering what other questions they would want to ask her, after the boning she gave Obama up his ass.
Oprah is the shining example: she wants to gag public access to her on her show, so Palin won't cut into Obama on national TV. The left spilled onto their propaganda arm, the Clinton Nat'l Broadcasting Co. (CNBC) and their other apparatachiks MSNBC, CNN, etc., famous for gagging stories from pre-91 Iraq to buy access there. Their beedy-eyed little worms with their talking points proceeded to slime her family, and the Internet tinfoil hat crowd were all too happy to start rumors about her children, etc.
Too bad it backfired and Obama had to, essentially, apologize. Then, women all over America went to her defense on child rearing and work! Even lifetime dem liberals like Geraldine Ferraro!
Geraldine Ferraro Cain! Paydirt!
It's called on-the-defensive Cain...not too surprising after the no-record or experience cornholing she gave him last week, eh?
Don't worry Cain, the press softballed Obama for 8 MONTHS, and Monday is just a day away. I have a feeling there are 7 more weeks left to slime her. McCain correctly picked someone who'd energize the Conservative base.
....and you thought he was just another old man
The sleeping giant has been awakened....and they are pissed...by a person so normal the dems are just sh-tting themselves. After all, this is a mom, a mom everyone recognizes, a nut-cutting, no-lifetime political wag from a congress so badly burned, a person who will appeal to the heartland, that the dems are, right now, waiting for the bed to fly around the room and vomit to come out.
Better find a young and old priest, Cain...fast!
':Palin did a great job reading the speech prepared for her'
Considering her teleprompter didn't work, yeah; she did a great job.
Considering that Obama just drools on himself when his teleprompter is down...
'now why won't they let her start answering questions so we can see how she will do without a scripted answer? '
We have heard Obamas alright, a different answer depending on what he his the audience wants to hear. Anyone who still buys his BS must be completely brain dead at this point.
Your the liar.
'Considering her teleprompter didn't work, yeah; she did a great job.'
Just Google Teleprompter/Palin and check it out idiot, 'minor problems'. The biggest thing she did was tell the 'pit bull---hockey mom joke that has been around for years. Wow, that is impressive. Your argument is as stupid as the new McSame comment that Palin has foreign policy experience because she has been a Governor of a state that is 'next to Russia'. I can't wait until the debates, your Shrew eventually has to answer some questions...that will be funny.
'Considering that Obama just drools on himself when his teleprompter is down...'
Your hatred shows through and also shows your bigotry. It is a fact that the only thing you hate about Obama is his color. It would be better for you to admit it so your rants and right-wing postings would make more sense to people who read your crap (not many).
'now why won't they let her start answering questions so we can see how she will do without a scripted answer? '
I agree with this, is she going to be able to answer questions while her Bush/McSame speech writers are drinking a glass of water? That's the big question?
Oh by the way, did you know McSame was a POW?
Do you actually think Obama is actually going to debate Palin??? What would he be thinking...he wants another drubbing???? Good god, she stuck it in and broke it off! The best part: this guy folded like a reed!
Put it out of your mind. Hell, OPRAH won't even talk to her! The best she can hope for is some kind of trump'ed up pseudo-debate with Biden, so lopsided in rules that he can come out without completely embarrassing himself.
Palin's foreign policy ecxperience:
every bit as much as Bill Clinton's
every bit as much as Jimmy Carters
Now, go find another reason to slam her. Don't try the family thing, Obama is still using Preparation H on that one.
Palin chose to have her mentally challanged baby - fine, but she doesn't believe other women have the right to choose. She doesn't believe in sex education in the schools, it belongs at home, but..........their situation speaks for itself. Is she a bridge to nowhere??
... perhaps you should go look at the stellar results sex ed has had in controlling teen pregnancy over the last 40 years, and then ask yourself why, just maybe, people like Palin think it ought to be taken back into the home. This is the great white hope, with every advantage thrown at it in public schools and the worst results to show for it.
Palin is, perhaps, a lot like other people, holding their noses in the 70's at Roe v. Wade because Blackman had a point when he said that no woman should be denied an abortion, without a reason.
Instead of intelligent choice, we went on an abortion frenzy, substituting it for actual birth control, all the way to shoving a shive up the kids head just as he was sliding down the birth canal. Your vaunted equal opportunity candidate is so enthralled with it he advocated lettin gthe dmaged fetus just slowly die, if the abortion doctor somehow managed to miss and let the baby be born. It is the most radical stance on abortion for any presidential candidate and then you have the gall to pick on Palin.
Teri, we gave an inch and they took a mile. We're sick of it. Palin is a breath of fresh air and the base has been energized. So if she holds that view, there is likely a good reason, although if you watch Oprah, I doubt you'll get to hear an explanation.
Sounds like you are worshiping on the alter of Palin. Don't put all your eggs in one basket as my grandma used to say. As for Palin being against sex ed in the schools - maybe there should be both - at home AND in schools. She talks a good talk, let's see how she walks a good walk.
'Your the liar.'
Where have I lied?
'ust Google Teleprompter/Palin and check it out idiot, 'minor problems'.'
OK:
Sarah Palin electrified the Republican convention Wednesday, all the while reading off a faulty teleprompter and an outdated draft, John McCain officials told FOX News on Thursday.
The Alaska governor overcame several glitches and technical problems to deliver her speech without getting flustered, impressing McCain and his staff and allowing them to breathe a sigh of relief.
Foremost of the obstacles, Palin’s teleprompter was not working properly. When she took the podium, the machine rolled so quickly, it often skipped the first line or two of every paragraph on screen. The operator said he had new equipment and wasn’t sure how it would work.
However, Palin also went on stage with a slightly outdated hard copy of her speech. For various unexplained reasons, she and her closest advisers had an old draft on hand, and even had a hard time furnishing one of those for her to use. Several of the drafts were scribbled on, so one aide gave Palin a wrinkled, folded copy out of his pocket.
Officials said Palin responded in mom-like fashion, concluding, “Well, I suppose I could put a book on it and smooth it out a little. “
During one part of her speech, she couldn’t see the teleprompter because signs were blocking it. That was when she ad-libbed a line about the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull — “lipstick.”
elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/04/palin-overcame-teleprompter-problems-m issing-hard-copies/
Aren't you happy I did that?
'Your argument is as stupid as the new McSame comment that Palin has foreign policy experience because she has been a Governor of a state that is 'next to Russia'.'
That wasn't what was said. Who is lying now?
Regardless, What foreign policy experience does Obama have? Does being educated in an Indonesian madrassah count as foreign policy experience all of a sudden?
''. I can't wait until the debates,'
Seeing how badly Obama blew saddleback, neither can I.
'your Shrew eventually has to answer some questions...that will be funny.'
I just love it when leftists call a strong woman a 'shrew'. More hypocracy in action.
'Your hatred shows through and also shows your bigotry.'
I don't hate him, I think he is a smarmy, duplicitous, cheap con man who blows smoke and sunshine up idiots behinds but if he weren't attempting to wreck the country I live in I wouldn't have anything to say about him at all.
' It is a fact that the only thing you hate about Obama is his color. '
No, it s not a fact. Indeed, it is pathetic that is all you have to fall back on. 'Say something bad about Obama and you are a racist'..... Not buying it.
Indeed, you are the only one here who has stated she is voting for someone because of his race. You are voting against McCain because he is white.
' It would be better for you to admit it'
It isn't true. It just shows how baseless and shallow your opinions are that you repeatedly default to that.
'
Oh by the way, did you know McSame was a POW?'
That really threatens you. Good. McCain has served the USA honorably over the span of decades and it nearly cost him his life. Obama hasn't served anything other then himself. The only thing he has done for decades is sit in a TRULY racist, TRULY hateful, TRULY BIGOTED church and listen to some pig blame white people for creating AIDS and tell them that America should be damned.
What's this I hear about McCain being a POW? I didn't know that, why don't they tell everyone about that, more? That is a real good reason to elect some President!
'What's this I hear about McCain being a POW? I didn't know that,'
He was, because he served the USA, unlike his opponent.
' why don't they tell everyone about that, more?'
I think you and the left should mock it, more.
'That is a real good reason to elect some President!'
That isn't the only reason, but whatever it is, it seems to be working.
USA Today/Gallup 09/05 - 09/07 LV 44 54 McCain +10
Gallup Tracking 09/04 - 09/06 2765 RV 45 48 McCain +3
Rasmussen Tracking 09/04 - 09/06 3000 LV 48 48 Tie
Hotline/FD 09/02 - 09/04 916 RV 46 40 Obama +6
CBS News 09/01 - 09/03 734 RV 42 42 Tie
CNN 08/29 - 08/31 927 RV 49 48 Obama +1
...all we have heard, for 30 weeks, is softballs from the liberal press on how cool Obama is. They have all but become his official press arm. Nothing but fluff interviews, gushing at every turn about the novelity of a black president. I guess they've never been to Africa.
Now, some hockey mom from Alaska comes in and guts his ass like a pig, pointing out SHE has more experience than he does. (not too hard). If the libnazi press had done it's job, the real job they're supposed to do, not the one they're doing now, he'd be even farther behind than he is now.
In fact, if you tally it up, Palin has about what Carter, Clinton and Bush 2 had, shy of the ivy league ed, which counts, undeniably. Nonetheless, she has, correctly, pointed out his weaknesses, and no one grilled Obama until she came along. This is why it stung so bad, not her obvious comments, which everyone knew but were not willing to say aloud, lest they insult the black man with the lousy resume'...
No, she iunhinged the libnazi left, undeniably, because she is...
so normal.
I mean, every person knows someone like her, who works on the School board, or the PTA or the alter society, or etc., and they have benefited from their involvement. The dems have seen movies like this before...and they do not end well. She nergized the Conservative base, in the heartland..and they are f--king pissed. Most of all, libnazis overreact on everyhting from Hurricanes to Surges, and we have had a glimpse of what it'd be like under their rule. She is a stellar example.
McCain did exactly what he should have..hired a gunslinger and she shot Obama's ass up good.
and you probably thought he was just a tired old man like the rest of his opponents...right?
Now, they need to slime her and from what I can see in the libnazi press, they are on it 24/7.
Find a priest, professor. The bed will start shaking soon and the vomit will fly. This is going to get ugly, fast. It just has to.
The most openly hostile, openly crazed partisan hack on television (and his leg-tingling friend) will no longer be anchoring MSNBC’s election coverage: MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat.
MSNBC tried a 'bold experiment' this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.
That experiment appears to be over.
After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.
The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.
“The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming,” said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.
If anyone actually believes McCain was the one who picked Palin, then I have a bridge to nowhere for sale!
I hope we can get through with this hockey mom and POW business that has been pounded into every one's head and get down to business now. I want to hear (and truthfully) from their mouths and not the media, where they actually stand on Iraq, abortion, government spending, the economy, etc.
I don't need to hear more about Palin's barracuda reputation or McCain's heroism before I make my final decision.
.a good place to start is the lengthy records both both republican candidates already have. Palin, undeniably, has a real record of reform in Alaska, if you'll just go look. McCain has husbanded some of the most unpopular legislation through Congress dedicated to reform, of which was limits on campaign funds, which he is honoring, while his opponent skipped off.
Both McCain and Palin are completely out front on Iraq, their comments, and their children's service in those wars attest to, as they are on taxes, spending and reform. The GOP has run candidates who are more honest about their postions than any of the dem candidates, if you can even squeeze a position out of them at all.
So my question, Hope, is what, exactly do you expect of the GOP candidates, while letting Obama cruise without a record or any real concrete stances of his own at all? I suspect this is beginning to have an effect.
For one thing, I would HOPE that the handle SP didn't crop up on every comment some one makes. I think like a lot of people, this isn't M&C, it's S&P. I am very interested in hearing what these candidates can answer to questions posed to them in debates, and that goes for both sides, which you never seem open to as you are too busy tooting the Republican horn. And that doesn't make ME wrong!
golly Hope, I don't think I've ever had anyone read my stuff and then wish for me to disappear....in the last 5 minutes anyway.
By all means, vett the candidates. That certainly does not make you wrong.
I'm just taken aback by the comment that Palin, who has been doing this for all of two whole weeks, has managed to pound anything into anyone's head, while we have had the libnazi drive-by media, so biased, they have been ga ga 'ing over Obama like the Beatles in 66' for the last 6 months, and managed to keep from vetting his postions, as if he actually had any.
What really chaps everyone's hides is that, in those two weeks, she has managed, by simply stating the obvious about Obama and that the drive-by's have meticulously avoided, to cut the legs from under his campaign with so much ease. This represents weakness on Obama's part, not on Palin's positions, Hope. On this, I believe you might be wrong.
The response was fabulous: they went straight to her family, beedy eyed little worms and their talking points, the hollywierdo gossip machine, all the libnazi army of Inquisitors, and then to have dems like Ferroaro jump to her aid....they did it all for us.
There happens to be a few other issues in Palin's service to check out besides her family problems. I don't give a hoot if her kids are knocked up or she has a baby who needs a mother at home, but I am interested in her policies - both before she popped onto the national scene and what she has to say about policies during a debate. It would almost appear she's had a little too much coffee, and I doubt if she can go to Washington and clean house like she predicts. Regardless of whether it's always right or wrong, there are rules to play by and these candidates, if they are elected, will need some cooperation not alienation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUrnZHc0I4
...how the press has landed in her private life, yet there seems to be zero scrutiny on Joe Biden's, a man with 25 years in the Senate and some of the stinkiest episodes that are passed over?
When I see Obermann cut loose, I see corporate folks beginning to question how they deliver the news services to their public.
Of course the press has landed in her private life. She's out there for everyone to scrutinize when she accepted the nomination. She a tough broad, so she should be able to take it - just ask her.
Palin's new to the scene so of course they are going to be all over her personal life. I think Obama has had plenty of scrutiny as well, the rest of the bunch have been around for years - nothing new there. I wonder how long it's going to take before the site is going to zero in on Obama's lipstick remark and join the crowd who has played that all out of porportion. I hope they include the fact that McCain is the one who started that remark over the months and several times and NOT about Barracuda. It was, no doubt, unfortunate under the circumstances of her lipstick remark, but if people aren't smart enough to listen to the truth, then they were hopeless to begin with.
I wonder if Charlie Gibson is up to delving into some of these matters when he interviews Palin?
..is good. Examining positions are great. But let's recap some glaring facts.
It's liberals and the press that have made Palin a celebrity, not Palin. Her speech was, to a conservative, predictable. By pillorying her, and going after her family McCain has gotten Obama to slime a woman. The issues never really came up.
Every person in America knows a Palin. They work on the PTA, the school board, etc. They may not like her, but they respect her, or someone like her. McCains people saw all this and went out, got someone who energized the right, and can take it in the chest. The move here was to make it hurt the dems when they did it, and the dems fell right into it.
America, you see, is a nation of people who know fair when they see it. After all, they watch Baseball, football and basketball and know a lousy call when they see it.
Obama has spent 3 times McCains dollars, and had 9 months, or more, to articulate his positions, with the virtual assistance of a liberal press, and has, essentially, failed to do so. Why?
Because the press never did their job, and Obama never did his. Not a very good sign, for a person who wants to lead. Now perhaps he can do this in the next 15 days, perhaps not. Others have done it, so why not him?
Want to take on issues or the candidates positions? Better hurry...
I can't remember reading or hearing that Obama was slimming Palin, and if you refer to the 'lipstick' remark, that is a standard expression used for a long time and by McCain himself a couple of times - so let's just get over that one. As for McCain going out and picking Palin. She was on a list of people that was compiled for possible VP picks. And if you think McCain was the main man picking his running mate - I've got a bridge.........you know the rest of the story. I can't believe a woman would actually say she would never vote for a ticket from now on that didn't have a woman on it.
I can't remember reading or hearing that Obama was slimming Palin,
sp4 - yeah, the lipstick...I do not believein coincidences
and if you refer to the 'lipstick' remark, that is a standard expression used for a long time and by McCain himself a couple of times - so let's just get over that one.
sp4 - he cannot take it back
As for McCain going out and picking Palin. She was on a list of people that was compiled for possible VP picks.
sp4 - you can say that again..and what a list, eh?
And if you think McCain was the main man picking his running mate
sp4 - undeniably.
He may not have made the list, but it would not happen without his approval. John is 71. He has millions. If he loses he goes back to the senate. He needs this like an extra asshole. If anything is true here it is that Johnny is doing this HIS way. Does he have help?..sure. If you believe otheriwse...:
- I've got a bridge.........
sp4 -to nowhere by chance?
you know the rest of the story. I can't believe a woman would actually say she would never vote for a ticket from now on that didn't have a woman on it.
sp4 - Really? How do you arrive at this conclusion? You do not believe there are folks who will nominate Obama simply because he is black, McCain because he's a vet, or Biden because he's from Conn.? That being the case, why is it so hard to expect a woman to do any different? Go ask John Edwards that same question and get back to us.
Of course I believe there are women out there who would vote a party only because there is a woman running. You are so analytical over every little statement! It was, moreless, a figure of speech or a declaration of outrage that they would do that. There are probably people who wouldn't vote for McCain because they don't like the bulge on the left side of his face and on and on. And you well know that the percentage of people who actually vote compared to the population of the U.S. is outrageous to say the least. Palin might very well have had her 5 minutes of fame, and if nothing else, her selection has brought this election more to the forefront continuing what Hillary brought out to begin with. I, personally, don't think this is the best time for Palin to be running or elected. Maybe in the future when she doesn't have so many things going on in her personal life - just my humble opinion.
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Obama is NOT ready to be presidentSep 6th, 2008 - 21:42:35
John McCain offered vision rooted in reality, not Barack Obama's empty promises
By Simon Heffer (abridged)
As the thousands of red, white and blue balloons, the tinsel and the tickertape descended from the rafters on the Republican convention moments after John McCain had finished addressing it, I at last worked out what had been the key difference between this event and the Democratic beano the week before.
The Democrats have a world view based (as Dr Johnson might have put it) on the triumph of hope over experience. The Republicans’ is rooted firmly in reality.
In Denver, speaker after speaker lauded and coddled one minority group after another and promised the largesse of the American taxpayer would alleviate their misery. In St Paul the message was about all Americans pulling together, getting government out of their lives, and making everyone richer and happier as a result.
When Mr McCain spoke, the faithful were still galvanised and awe-struck by the performance of his remarkable running-mate 24 hours earlier. In that sense anything he could say or do was bound to be an anti-climax.... Thus is the flavour of the next two months established. She will eat their opponents alive; he will be there to explain from the apparently limitless fount of his wisdom what will be done on the tree-strewn road ahead. It is a horrible cliché, but of the two men aiming for the White House, Mr McCain has more of the demeanour of a president.
This is nothing to do with his white hair, still less his white skin: it is everything to do with his gravitas and his record. Some of us thought, and hoped, that he would win the nomination in 2000 over the manifestly inferior George W Bush. The qualities he had then are the same ones that give him the edge over his opponent now: a “story”, to use the campaign’s favourite word, of genuine heroism, service and leadership; coupled with what are now the first signs of a grasp of what it is possible to do to right America’s economic wrongs without first making them considerably worse.
Mr McCain has been on Capitol Hill for 26 years. He not only knows how the system works, he actively despises it and wants to reform it. He brings immense wisdom and good judgment to the table. It is that, rather than a beauty contest based on some celebrity X-factor, that should decide the election on November 4.
In his speech to the delegates in St Paul Mr McCain dealt only in the broad brush. In this, he was rather like Mr Obama in the Broncos’ stadium at Denver a week earlier. But unlike Mr Obama, Mr McCain littered his broad brush with odd moments of detail, and clear statements of vital principle. His delivery may have lacked the charisma and sonority of his opponent’s, but what he delivered will have connected with tens of millions of Americans, consolidating the shock of the new imposed on them the previous evening by Sarah Palin.[...]
No-one deserves to get a job on Buggin’s turn, or on the basis that he or she has been in the queue for it the longest; but that is not what qualifies Mr McCain for the White House. He drew attention to the most important fact about modern life: not the global economic convulsion, from which America has in the last fortnight started to show the first faint signs of recovery, but the fact that the world is a dangerous place, and getting more so. Mr Obama doesn’t know where to start on this, and the claims made for his good ol’ boy running mate Joe Biden being an expert on foreign policy are charitable to say the least.
In the next eight weeks Mr McCain needs to hammer home the perils to western civilisation not just of Islamic extremism but also of a new Cold War and a restless China. He made a good start yesterday, but this notoriously inward-looking country still needs more of a wake-up call. His television debates with Mr Obama, starting later this month, will be crucial in what must be his strategy of trumping charm and effortless superiority with raw experience.
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