Word: mate
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Obama, Barack •encouraging poll results for •endorsement by Scott McClellan and others of •"rhetorical flourishes" of running mate are noted...
...significance overwhelms Deeti, and she hangs a portrait of the Ibis in her family shrine.It is hinted that other figures will come to have their portraits hung next to the Ibis in the shrine—Zachary, the light-skinned freedman who rises from carpenter to first-mate on the Ibis during its disastrous journey from America; Jodu, a young boatman who grew up in the household of an aristocratic Frenchman; Neel, a fading maharajah—but by the end of this novel they have only just come together onboard the real ship. The volume’s closing...
Barack Obama has prospered in this presidential campaign because of the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making. They are his best-known qualities. The most important decision he has made - the selection of a running mate - was done carefully, with an exhaustive attention to detail and contemplation of all the possible angles. Two months later, as John McCain's peremptory selection of Governor Sarah Palin has come to seem a liability, it could be argued that Obama's quiet selection of Joe Biden defined the public's choice in the general-election campaign...
...popularity, it chafes me a bit. Doesn't Alaska belong to all of us? Why should part of the price I pay at the gas pump go into an Alaskan's pockets just because she lives there? Second, the story demonstrates Palin's worthiness to be McCain's running mate, since they both overstate their accomplishments. Vince Sigman, MALTA, OHIO...
...Powell tried to leave two impressions above all: that he believes Obama is ready to be Commander in Chief and that Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate, is not. It probably didn't hurt that Powell appeared on Meet the Press the morning after Palin appeared on Saturday Night Live...