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...nice job, and the audience went bananas over her. She's obviously well-loved among the GOP faithful, and she seems genuinely pleased by her husband's political ascent. By all appearances, Laura Bush is awfully good at being the wife of a presidential candidate - a gift she may have privately hoped would never see the light...
...papers all lead Wednesday with shades of John McCain. In NYT he falls to the subhed, below "For GOP, a Night to Bolster Bush," but the story is quick to make John McCain's rebellion-free speech the most important bolstering. But they also call him "subdued." WP ("Heartily Endorses") and USAT ("Salutes") both headline McCain. WSJ continues its two-steps-away convention coverage with a contrarian history piece about how the GOP loves its military night, but remember - this is the first ticket in forever without a veteran on it. Bush and Cheney, the deferment boys - that...
...Philly Inquirer leads with "High-Powered Troops Rally Around Bush" but since the politics of protests are local, "Widespread Clashes Disrupt Center City" goes top left with a big pic. Luckily for the GOP, protesters pretty much fall to third in all the biggies but WSJ (which ignores them), with the NYT allowing that cops "gingerly arrested" 280-odd members of the traveling band of gripers. WP is a little more dramatic, getting right to "three police officers were treated when an unknown substance was splashed in their eyes, and a fourth was hospitalized with head injuries after being...
...thought it sounded like the convention theme was 'It Takes a Village.'" (NYT) -Hillary Clinton, on Monday night's GOP theme, "Opportunity With a Purpose: Leave No Child Behind...
...surrounding this week's Republican convention, the host committee has put together a little something called "PoliticalFest," an outsized, hands-on museum piece that casts a loving look back at America's political tradition - and gives conventioneers and residents alike a chance to stock up on some truly choice GOP merchandise...