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Seven years ago, as Brokaw pointed out, McCain himself was sounding redistributionist, complaining about President Bush's tax cuts. Campaigning against Bush in 2000, he said that "when you ... reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more." Obama has said no more than this, except to set the "level of comfort" at $250,000, which is pretty comfortable. McCain is free to argue that Obama will raise taxes on people making less than $250,000. My bet is that whoever wins the election will be forced to. But his apparent belief that the very...
...year Washington veteran whose control of the federal purse strings once made his colleagues practically genuflect in his presence. Longtime friend Jack Roderick, who practiced law with Stevens 40 years ago, sounded subdued at his Anchorage home the day of the verdict. "It's just sad on a personal level," said Roderick, who believes his old friend is innocent. "No question, he showed bad judgment to get associated with a guy like Bill Allen. He got sloppy...
Healey said that McCain also supported negotiations, but argued that such talks would have to begin with lower level diplomats such as the secretary of state...
...same election also revealed that polls can be wrong. In the lead-up to the vote, Kinnock’s Labour Party was running level or slightly ahead in the polls. On Election Day itself the party was defeated by more than seven percent in the popular vote. Research done afterwards suggested that significant numbers of people who voted Conservative felt, in the last few days, that Kinnock could not be trusted but had been too ashamed to tell pollsters. The Obama campaign is no doubt aware of this historical lesson...
...philosophy majors in a weird way, because we examine what it means to be a person, to make decisions for what is good. How should we treat each other? How will we help the world? That’s something that musicals are all about. They all, on some level, deal with communities.”In the panel discussion—which was moderated by NCT production coordinator Dana Knox—Benjamin divulged that her experiences had a more direct impact on the show. “We’ve snuck in references to people we know...