Word: jr
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...just one of those fateful twists that John McCain now finds himself in the same position his father was in, she notes, when Admiral John S. McCain Jr. was commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific, ordering bombing runs on Hanoi as his son was being held prisoner there. "Now, my husband is not calling the shots in this war, but he's very involved, obviously, in what the strategy is and shaping American policy toward it. With that said, at the same time, his son is in Iraq. So yes, it's very personal...
...ambitions, to reconcile the code of honor instilled in him as a boy with the insistent demands of political expedience. His worst moments in public office, this critic has charged, have come when he has failed to put his country first - opposing a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. to bolster his conservative credibility in Arizona, concealing his abhorrence of the Confederate flag to troll for votes in South Carolina. And before you judge, you should know that the critic in question is John McCain, who has explored and deplored his own flaws in remarkable detail in his books...
...visibly depressed. Salter, his speechwriter, ghostwriter and alter ego, remembers walking back to the Capitol with his boss in uncharacteristic silence after a press conference. McCain's mind was clearly elsewhere, perhaps wondering how he ever got so close to the savings and loan crook Charles Keating Jr. during the go-go 1980s. "It won't always be like this," McCain finally told Salter. Recalls his friend Bill Cohen, then a Senator from Maine: "John had never felt so wounded, even in Vietnam, because his sense of honor had been challenged. And he was seething...
...brought up some very salient points regarding the failures of the current administration," said Jonathan Padilla '11, the former secretary of the Harvard Dems, of RFK Jr. "However, you have to emphasize that we are still a great nation. We just need to move away from an ideology that has taken our country away from what it means to be an American...
...probably disappointed. A number of speakers tried to tie the Republican nominee to incumbent President Bush, figuring that ought to be as lethal as a bathtub tied to a Channel swimmer. Noting that McCain sides with Bush 90% of the time, according to some estimates, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey Jr. declared, "That's not a maverick. That's a sidekick...