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...seen correctly, could move us beyond our narrow interests into uncommon unity,” he said. At the same time, the meeting did not completely ignore the upcoming election. Motley also took the opportunity to discuss the club’s upcoming fall events designed to aid John McCain’s presidential campaign and to excite new members about the Harvard political scene. “Look around and see. There are other Republicans at Harvard,” he said. “You don’t have to feel at siege...
Rangel is a lifelong Harlem resident. After dropping out of high school and being wounded in the Korean War, he went on to get a bachelor's degree from New York University and a law degree from St. John's University. After working as an assistant U.S. attorney, he was elected to the New York State Assembly and then Congress in 1970. He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and has championed many causes in the House, including low-income housing in urban communities and divestment from U.S. companies operating in South Africa during apartheid...
...federal waters 50 miles or more from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts - in a belated attempt to find political shelter from Republican election attacks over gas prices. But even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi steered the bill through procedural hurdles to passage during the day, Senator John McCain demonstrated the continued power of the issue on the campaign trail...
...photos of John McCain on the campaign trail here.) (See photos of Barack Obama on the campaign trail here...
Politics has always been lousy with blather and chicanery. But there are rules and traditions too. In the early weeks of the general-election campaign, a consensus has grown in the political community - a consensus that ranges from practitioners like Karl Rove to commentators like, well, me - that John McCain has allowed his campaign to slip the normal bounds of political propriety. The situation has gotten so intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well. Usually when a candidate tells something less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy...