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...Highlight Reel:1. Have no shame. "Does talking a guy into an institution that will make him healthier, wealthier and happier seem wrong?" Uscher-Pines asks. Hell no, is her answer. So press on with complete confidence that marriage is The Right Thing To Do. Too many women find themselves "becoming a wife before you actually have a husband," she adds. And don't let your friends tell you the hot pursuit of a ring is antifeminist; actually, it's all about empowerment. And, somehow, the environment. "Basically, if you aren't selfish enough to get married for yourself...
...don’t have the definitive answer,” Lerner said...
...problems. He simply isn't as skillful a communicator as Obama is. The difference between them was made clear in the second question of the debate - a fellow named Oliver Clark wanted to know how the Wall Street bailout would help his friends who were in trouble. McCain's answer was all over the place and obscure in a classic Washington way; he detoured into blaming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and pointing his finger at Obama and "his cronies" for supporting those two incomprehensible institutions. Obama, by contrast, brought the bailout home in simple language: "Well, Oliver, first...
...McCain's war wounds and his bouts with cancer - the restricted arm movements; the scarred, clenched jaw. But there is also a pent-up anger to McCain. He seems to be concentrating so hard on trying to stay calm that he doesn't have much energy left over to answer questions in a free and creative way. He is not the sort of person, in the end, that you want to invite into your living room for a four-to-eight-year stay...
...That was, no doubt, the politic answer. But not the correct one. Obama was underestimating the public's capacity to hear the truth - which is odd, since the national desire for substance, the unwillingness to be diverted by "lipstick on a pig" trivialities, has been so striking in this campaign. Everyone knows this recession is going to hurt, that there will be a price for our profligacy and that some hard shoveling will be necessary to get out of this hole. Indeed, that knowledge is what has made Obama's success possible. But if he wants to do more than...