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...first woman on a Republican ticket, which the campaign is surely hoping will appeal to Hillary Clinton voters and help reduce Barack Obama's advantage among women. She's a fresh face to counteract Obama's message of change, and she's about as far outside the Beltway as you can get. A child of the middle class with a friendly face and big hair, she is so affable that she once won Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. Her son is about to deploy to Iraq. She's an ice fisherman, a moose hunter, a small business owner...
...Crusader A few years after his return, McCain was posted to Washington as a Navy liaison on Capitol Hill, a political job his Beltway-connected father had performed with flair. Still a rebel by nature, McCain used his connections to lead a rearguard effort to save a $2 billion aircraft carrier from President Jimmy Carter's budget ax, even though McCain was supposed to be representing Carter on the Hill. By 1980, he wanted to stop advising members of Congress and start becoming...
...advisor acknowledged, Biden's long resume played a large part in his selection. It would have been a surprise choice for those who remembered Obama telling voters for the past month that he didn't want a Washington insider. Two of the other four finalists were from outside the Beltway - Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine (the fourth being Indiana Senator Evan Bayh). To vaccinate against GOP attempts to paint Biden as an insider, the campaign has been careful to underline Biden's distance from Washington. "He never moved to Washington," Obama said while introducing Biden. "Instead...
...regulate by counting tombstones," an FAA official told a journalist a few years ago. The nickname's origins are unknown, but by the time I joined the Department of Transportation, even people who worked for the FAA cynically called it the Tombstone Agency. Within the Washington Beltway, agency officials, government bureaucrats, staff on Capitol Hill, aviation lobbyists, airline representatives and journalists all understood the poignant irony of this nickname. The FAA will not do anything until people die. It was a sad, bad, inside joke. Only the public never knew how much truth...
Where's the Veep? Try to think outside the beltway [June 23]. I am a 57-year-old black female who accepts the reality of race and is truly more focused on simply having good government that works - black, white or Technicolor. We Democrats must have a white male on the ticket with Barack Obama to guarantee a win in November, because this is a white man's world. I say this with no animosity or bitterness. The Veep must also be smart, handsome, Southern, a military man and reasonably conservative. We're on a roll. Marlene B. Feltus-Jackson...