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...pledge for pro-life litmus tests). The reporters kept clamoring until Bush had had enough. Last week one of his campaign spokeswomen informed the media that the Governor wouldn't be holding any press conferences for a while. "It's not in our best interests," she said with surprising candor. "We have a message of the day, and we're going to stick to it." Read her lips: no new chances to pin Bush down. Then reporters started howling, and Bush backed down...
...June 1992, when I was still a candidate for the presidency and he was fairly new in his own job. Since then, in the 19 times we've met, I have often heard him speak, with unmistakable and sometimes pugnacious pride, about his greatest achievements and, with equally straightforward candor, about where he still had work to do to build a genuinely democratic, prosperous and modern Russia, pursuing its national interests while cooperating with other great nations and international institutions...
...sure, Franklin Roosevelt was far from perfect. Critics lamented his deviousness, his lack of candor, his tendency to ingratitude. His character flaws were widely discussed: his stubbornness, his vanity, his occasional vindictiveness, his habit of yessing callers just to be amiable. At times, his confidence merged into arrogance, diminishing his political instincts, leading to an ill-defined court-packing scheme and an unsuccessful attempt to purge his opponents in the 1938 by-elections. One must also concede the failures of vision that led to the forcible relocation of Japanese Americans, which deprived tens of thousands of men, women and children...
...call it, 'earned media' - helps cut a well-financed candidate's advantage," says Carney. "For McCain and Bradley it's key. And there's no candidate like John McCain in terms of media accessibility. He's an open book." During an increasingly long election cycle, that kind of candor is catnip to reporters. The results: Since September, McCain's "unfamiliarity" rating in nationwide polls has dropped 20 points to 31 percent, and his national approval rating is now over 50 percent. Lesser but still positive gains are seen in the Bradley camp...
That McCain felt compelled to release all this information is testimony to two things: first, to the power of the whispered allegations against him; and, second, to McCain's instinct for candor. At a holiday party last Friday night, McCain joked about how the moderators at last week's debate seemed obsessed with his temper. "They kept asking, 'Are you crazy? Are you crazy?'" Answer: No crazier than anyone else who would run for President...