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...politically, especially with a demographic chunk that usually shies away from liberalism: American working guys. It made him more accessible. Here was a fellow who got it on with faded lounge singers and then celebrated with a Double Quarter Pounder and fries at the local McDonald's. If that ain't pickup-truck nirvana, what is? Democrats haven't produced many such men of the people; they produce law-professor presidents, a theme Palin launched in Nashville that we will be hearing a lot more frequently in the future...
...want to destroy the myth. If I thought it was possible, I'd do it. I'm not saying I'll never do it, but we did try, and it didn't work out. We have one month where we're talking. The next month, we ain't. But if they call me for something, I'm there...
...House Speaker Sam Rayburn warned him about it: "Sycophants will stand in the rain a week to see you and will treat you like a king," he said. "They'll come sliding in and tell you you're the greatest man alive - but you know and I know you ain...
Every President needs those people who tell them they ain't the king. Kennedy talked about "the poison of the presidency," the way proximity to power could warp the judgment of even the wisest allies. It's one reason Kennedy's father wanted him to make his brother Attorney General and why First Ladies wield power that can never be adequately measured by the list of causes they support. (See pictures of Michelle Obama behind the scenes...
...same logic should help Sandra Bullock in her Oscar search. After 10 weeks in theaters, her sports-inspirational drama, The Blind Side, dropped out of the top 10 (all the way down to 11), but it ain't done yet. Bullock won Best Actress awards from the Golden Globe crowd and, on Jan. 23, the Screen Actors Guild; the former long shot is now the favorite to cop an Oscar (over previous front runner Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia). There's no question that the movie's out-of-nowhere success - a $234 million domestic gross on a modest...