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Though I differ with McCain on specific issues, I've always admired his maverick spirit and straight-talk approach to the press. But his interview with TIME raises grave concerns. McCain could have defused legitimate questions about his campaign's new discipline in any number of ways, but to put reporters from a major newsmagazine in the deep freeze betrays a fundamental lack of self-control, not to mention candor. Do we really want to elect such a mercurial individual as our Commander in Chief? Owen Prell, MILL VALLEY, CALIF...
...dealing with terrorists. Such an approach--which the Senators have called a "genuine sea change"--has widespread support. Randy Scheunemann, the top foreign policy adviser of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, says achieving U.S. objectives in Pakistan will require development as well as military aid. In July, in an interview with nbc, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said not enough U.S. assistance to Pakistan has taken the form of "building schools and building infrastructure in the country...
...plenty of questions to answer, and while she has basked in mostly adoring reviews from the conservative base, she is also struggling to deflect the scrutiny of her record in office. Though it insists she is up to the job of Vice President, the campaign denied all news interview requests for nearly two weeks after she joined the ticket. She regards reporters warily and from a distance, except for a brief meet and greet on her campaign plane that was strictly off the record. Onstage, she tells the same teleprompter jokes every day, and her husband Todd laughs at them...
Soon after, Palin agreed to her first (and so far only) postnomination TV interview, with ABC's Charles Gibson, who had just blogged that controversies like Palin's husband's membership in a secessionist party and her daughter's pregnancy "are issues of family and should remain so." Deference accomplished...
Have you ever changed your mind on an issue as a result of an interview you've done? Ben Doty, SYCAMORE...