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...Though I differ with McCain on specific issues, I've always admired his maverick spirit and straight-talk approach to the press. But his interview with TIME raises grave concerns about his choleric temperament. McCain could have defused legitimate questions about his campaign's new discipline in any number of ways, but to put reporters from a major newsmagazine in the deep freeze betrays a fundamental lack of self-control, not to mention candor. Do we really want to elect such a mercurial individual as our Commander in Chief? Owen Prell, Mill Valley, Calif...
...McCain is no maverick. He has picked the religious right's dream VP candidate and put America in jeopardy. Karen Wagner, Rolling Meadows, Illinois...
...fund-raising and possible front-runner status. The Democrats made up some ground by week's end but are still reacting to the John McCain onslaught rather than driving the agenda and news cycle. McCain's self-engineered and Palin-fueled metamorphosis from experienced veteran to reformer-with-results maverick has proved effective, if risky. Obama has yet to cement his political persona--even as the electorate is readying its final judgment. McCain has stuck with an overarching strategy of defining Obama as "not what he seems." Meanwhile, Democrats have lurched from wide-ranging criticisms of Palin (her experience...
McCain is no Maverick. He has picked the religious right's dream VP candidate and put America in jeopardy. Karen Wagner, ROLLING MEADOWS...
...Columbia and Harvard. Yet McCain went to Annapolis and became a pilot, and when asked he couldn't remember how many homes he and his wife owned! Talk about élitism! And do some people think that going against the party line one out of 10 times is a maverick? And he cannot answer a simple question about how he defines honor. No doubt he will later say how he regrets giving up his honor for expediency yet again as he has done so often. What a horror of a candidate - the U.S. and the world deserve better. William Earl...