Word: mccains
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...Court seats at the end of the bench. The Republicans picked their Vice President using the same criterion as guys in an Alaskan bar: by going for the only chick there. Sarah Palin got a $150,000 makeover when it was obvious to everyone outside the party that John McCain needed it more. As the year went on, people got even more entranced by risk, placing their roulette bets on green. Barack Obama picked Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. Heidi married Spencer. Coors got rid of Zima...
What would Theodore Roosevelt--the author of the quotation above, which is the inspiration for this column--have made of Barack Obama? I'm not sure he would have liked him very much. T.R. was more a McCain sort of guy: blustery and passionate, valuing emotion over precision. But our President-elect certainly merits this year's lead Teddy Award, distributed to mark honorable behavior in the political arena. He deserves it for displaying a trait memorialized by Roosevelt's contemporary and fellow imperialist Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs...
...indeed. Obama's greatest achievement was that he managed to win the presidency while respecting the intelligence of the American people. Oh, he pandered some and at times nudged up against the line of acceptable political behavior: he did claim, falsely, that McCain was responsible for the loss of 8,000 jobs in Ohio. But he was solid on all the big stuff. He refused to take tawdry short cuts, like supporting a "gas-tax holiday" during the primaries against Hillary Clinton. He has, since the election, remained true to the promises and philosophy he proposed during the campaign. Most...
...Davis conceded that the selection of Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate was "risky" but maintained that risk was required by the dire national mood the Republicans faced. And Plouffe admitted that the introduction of the Rev. Wright problem caught the Obama team by surprise and represented a moment of "great peril" for the campaign. Everyone onstage complained about the political caricatures of Saturday Night Live - except for Ifill. "I got Queen Latifah, so I was happy about that," she said of her impersonator on the show...
...about trying to tackle Bangladesh's wretched record of corruption and reform its volatile electoral politics. Results have been mixed, but the government now looks ready to deliver on its promises for free and credible polls - an effort that's not going unnoticed. Earlier this month, U.S. Senator John McCain, the defeated Republican candidate for President, declared on a visit to Dhaka that "this has the possibility of being the fairest election, perhaps, in the entire world...