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Though Kerry rarely shows up these days on the Senate floor, he has carried much of that world into his presidential campaign. He still relies on his Senate staff, particularly chief of staff David McKean and foreign policy adviser Nancy Stetson, for policy advice. Kerry's Senate press secretary, David Wade, has moved over to the campaign, where he has logged more miles with the candidate than any other adviser and become an important arbiter of what is and isn't working on the stump. For those tricky situations that only a peer would know how to navigate, Kerry turns...
...lines like "You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full-grown man" and into solidly gay territory, the rest of the band pillages comfortable Top 40 riffs from George Michael's Faith, Billy Joel's Piano Man and anything Elton John didn't bolt to the floor. Take Your Mama feels familiar enough to dance to and new enough to keep you riveted. It's an excellent pop song...
...nature / I?m full of vitamin A, say!?), each girl semaphored ?hate? with raised palms and formed an A by touching her open thumbs and forefingers. When they repeated the bridge and got to ?Vitamin A,? the seven-year-old deftly lifted the nine-year-old off the floor and into her arms. They belted out the last verse (?In a year or two or three/ Maybe we will be too old?) and concluded to rapturous applause from the audience of three: Mary, me and their beaming...
...trouble is, this wasn’t the real ’60s—like the bizarre parliamentary spectacle of the platform’s adoption by a half-empty floor, it was a show. There wouldn’t be any 1968-style riot and repression, to be sure, but along with that current of radical danger seemed to have gone any spirit of radical promise...
Kennedy credited Byrd’s staunch anti-war stance and impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate prior to the invasion of Iraq for providing a voice to the masses seeking peaceful resolution of the conflict. Their rapid dispersal over the internet testified to the nature of free speech in the 21st century, he later added...