Word: mccains
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...them up, looking at this Administration." Obama has had teams of people already working closely with the Treasury Department and the Pentagon in the event of a victory. They have submitted countless names to the FBI to be sure that they are packing security clearances as soon as possible. McCain mocked the presumption of Obama's "measuring the drapes," but Obama's preparations for a transition reflected the fact that the rest of the world isn't going to wait until Jan. 20 to find out what he thinks. At a time like this, there's probably no such thing...
...morning after John McCain's defeat, Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and biographer, sipped coffee in the courtyard of the Biltmore Resort and Spa while explaining why the national political press had assisted Barack Obama. "On top of everything, we had a thumb on the scale," he said, referring to the media's role in refereeing the campaign. "It wasn't right, but it was what it was." (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...
Salter argued, as he has for weeks in private conversations, that the press was skewed for several reasons. "McCain was the story they had covered. He was a 2000 news story," Salter said, while Obama was the new guy. He said the press was also swayed by the possibility of America electing its first black President, who could get the country "past the old racial baggage we have lugged around for so many years." "I understand that appeal," Salter continued, sounding neither bitter nor upset. "I think McCain probably, as you can tell from his speech last night, felt part...
Hear Mark Salter discuss McCain's defeat...
...McCain's top aide rejected outright the notion that McCain had been changed by former handlers of President George W. Bush, like Steve Schmidt, the McCain strategist who had worked with Karl Rove in 2004. "This sort of Maureen Dowd nonsense, comic-book theorizing about the Bushies who hijacked McCain - she can never write a serious column," he said of the New York Times columnist. "It's just nonsense. Everybody, everybody felt a personal responsibility to protect McCain's reputation...