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Manchurian. In the 1962 John Frankenheimer film The Manchurian Candidate, a former POW war hero is brainwashed and becomes an assassin in a Communist plot to take over the presidency. John McCain is known in certain circles as "The Manchurian Candidate...
...wall of television screens flashed campaign coverage from every imaginable channel--except FOX--they preferred "Party of Five" over McCain. Huddled together, we stared at this splendor of technology and manpower. Alter flew off to another interview, and Franklin spied his heroine, Arianna Huffington while I discovered my hometown hero, the Boston Globe columnist, Mike Barnicle. Granted, he resigned from the Globe after they discovered his tendency to "fabrication," but he's still the best thing the Globe ever had. With his arms folded across his chest, he seemed mildly pleased to hear I was from The Crimson...
Reagan is another hero. McCain voted for the Reagan budgets to which Goldwater objected, and today he calls himself "a proud conservative in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and my favorite, Theodore Roosevelt." But Reagan and Roosevelt represent very different traditions. Reagan passed tax cuts for the rich (McCain voted for them); Roosevelt called for a social safety net and graduated income tax to shrink the gap between rich and poor. And that sounds like McCain lately. "I'm not giving tax cuts for the rich," he says. Roosevelt's progressive-era reforms helped create government regulations; Reagan wanted...
...require background checks on people who buy weapons at gun shows. It was, he declared, "a turning point for our country." You could almost see the ad in the can. But in that same chamber 14 years before, Gore cast some other pivotal votes--ones that made him a hero to the gun lobby and that could come back to haunt him. "We could have made Al Gore NRA Man of the Year--every single vote," says National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre. "It's the most spectacular conversion I've ever seen. It's worthy of being investigated...
...said he was proud of the way I was handling myself with impeachment, and then he said he was thinking about running and building it around a new dynamic," says Graham. "Embrace reform, admit that money is a problem in Washington, and put a hero back before the public eye with a Republican name behind...