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McCain's presence in our public life has been, on balance, a valuable thing. His speech tonight gave intimations of why that has been so, but it lacked the drive and creativity of a true presidential acceptance. He is the standard bearer of a failed ideology - ironically, a belief in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein: McCain's Muted Acceptance | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

But Obama's weakness for undue prudence seems downright virtuous compared with the recklessness that McCain showed in choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. He had months to make this choice, but he allowed it to come down to a chaotic scramble in the last week - a reaction, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Makes Obama Conservative | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Palin was a blatant porker when she was mayor of Wasilla, hiring a lobbying firm to rake in the projects; she was close to the corrupt megaporker Senator Ted Stevens, a frequent McCain adversary and champion of the mythic bridge. Rather than putting "country first," her husband had been a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Makes Obama Conservative | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Don't be surprised, though, if the combination continues. McCain wanted to pick a centrist Vice President not just because he liked candidates such as Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, but because he badly needs to close the gap in swing states like Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, where he trails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Palin's Speech | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

But Palin can help McCain through biography as well as resume. She'll be the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why McCain Picked Palin | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

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