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...that McCain would be a "very dangerous" Vice President. McCain, though disappointed, understands the bargain Bush has made with the preacher. "Would I have preferred if he'd said Robertson is a turkey? Sure!" McCain says. "Obviously he didn't want to confront Robertson. But why should I get mad about it?" The answer is, he shouldn't. That's what saying "I endorse you" is all about...
That means more debate. No more mad dash for Super Tuesday, after which the anointed can sit back and indulge the party's remaining primary voters in smug contentment. Every state would count, so even the front-runner would have to dig his heels in till the end--sweating, debating, persuading. Since smaller states are usually cheaper to campaign in, gone too would be the financial blitz in which a big-money candidate splurges early to knock his or her opponent out at the start. The Delaware Plan would make losing the first few primaries, currently an automatic disqualification, politically...
Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...
...with specific goals, a million marchers and motherhood behind them, the mothers are in a significantly stronger position than the Promise Keepers "dads" of 1996. They too had hundreds of thousands of marchers, but they made the critical error of getting "sad" instead of "mad." The dads wept openly, hugged each other in stadiums, and then tried to assert their patriarchal authority. Not too effective. The moms have effectively channeled their anger towards achieving specific goals. They are bonded by a single purpose, not an nebulous concept...
Even when a crowd calls itself a Million Moms, mad as heck for the sake of the kids, I'm afraid it gives me a sense of moral claustrophobia...