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...Squeezed into the last minutes before prime time began, Bush used his moment - less than half as long as Lieberman's - to vouch for McCain as "ready to lead this nation." He, too, touched on the theme of McCain's resilience: "If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what's best for his country, you can be sure the Angry Left never will." And he nodded to the well-known fact that he and McCain have never liked each other: "He's not afraid to tell you when he disagrees. Believe me - I know...
...image of a fouled anchor is an official insignia of the U.S. Navy, embossed on jacket buttons and cap badges. As a graduate of the Naval Academy, the son and grandson of admirals, John S. McCain has been contemplating fouled anchors all his life...
...second group is more amorphous; call them the Coalition of the Flabbergasted. From the moment John McCain announced his choice of the rookie governor of a remote state as his running mate, they have generated a drumbeat of skepticism so intense that Palin has nowhere to go but up. Politicians spend a lot of time playing the expectations game, but in this case Palin may win by forfeit, because her opponents have set the bar somewhere around her shins...
Nothing spawns conspiracy theories like war in a remote place. The latest one comes from a singularly well-placed source. In an interview with CNN last week, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of orchestrating the war in Georgia in order to benefit the candidacy of John McCain. He claimed that "U.S. citizens were indeed in the area of conflict" and that "the only one who can give such orders is their leader." Without endorsing Putin's claim, many European officials reportedly harbor suspicions that there was more American involvement in the crisis than previously reported. That...
...from American military advisers. (Georgia also sent 2,000 men to fight alongside the U.S. in Iraq.) Several U.S. citizens, including Daniel Kunin, the son of former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin, have worked as senior aides to Saakashvili's administration. Randy Scheunemann, a senior adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, was a lobbyist for Georgia until earlier this year. And the Georgian President has friends in high circles in the U.S., including Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden and McCain himself...