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...ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Infighting Accuracy Rate Momentum Expectation-Setting ACTION The unseemly spectacle of anonymous Palin allies' criticizing her handling by McCain staffers, followed by McCain aides sliming Palin as a "diva" and "whack job," was too alluring for the media to ignore. In comparison, Obama's arch remark that Joe Biden can be given to "rhetorical flourishes" looked positively friendly. Another typical week in the message wars. Democrats methodically fired laser-guided missiles at McCain (that he's in lockstep with Bush and represents more of the same), while Republicans hurled every pot and pan within...
...Family Education Loan Program that provides subsidies to lenders offering parent and student loans. In the long-term, his stance on social security makes sense for a generation being disinherited by the flawed institution. Obama’s proposal of increasing the income tax for social security pales in comparison to McCain’s introduction of personal accounts...
...longtime Hormel adviser, told me recently. "It's nothing more than like-minded donors getting together to share strategies." When I mentioned that similar organizations on the right had received press scrutiny - I was thinking of the Arlington Group, a coalition of movement conservatives - Mulliner angrily rejected the comparison: "You have no reason to be curious about this. You're going to write a piece that's going to start a fire that needs to get put out, and it's going to cost a lot of money to put it out," he said...
...Aiyar offers little economic comparison, but she does ask one very pertinent (and Indian) question: How has China been able to build fabulous highways when the pothole-ridden streets of her homeland have hardly changed? Millions of her compatriots would love to know why China's path out of poverty is so much quicker than their own. Maybe if the neighbors spent more time together, some answers would emerge...
...environmental movement like to place the problem of climate change in the same historical file as pivotal historical moments like the promotion of democracy at the American Revolution, the invention of a new economy at the Industrial Revolution, or the expansion of the franchise during the suffrage movement. The comparison is legitimate: Confronting the vast ecological problems we have already occasioned on ourselves and simultaneously preventing them from getting any worse is, if anything, of even greater historical import than any of these examples...