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...picture-perfect Alaskan family home. Palin, who hunts, fishes, and says her favorite food is moose, fits into this community snugly, in a way that many carpet-bagging national politicians can only dream of. And her friends here think the rest of America will fall for her just they way they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Palin Made Her Name | 8/30/2008 | See Source »

...many words go into an event like the Democratic party convention? They're flakes in a blizzard - a few hit you, and the rest blow by in a blur. Amid that blizzard there was one perfect word, early in Barack Obama's virtuoso acceptance speech, to sum up the thrust of the entire storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convention: Redefining Change | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...fireworks burst and the confetti flurried. It's one of his favorite lines, and usually it provokes a quibble: Isn't that your name on the buttons and your face on the T-shirts? But as a closing note for this historic convention, it was another selection of perfect words. This is the wager the Democrats have pushed to the center of the table this week: that they can make this election not about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convention: Redefining Change | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...perfect speech for a skeptical nation. In some ways, the heart of it was near the end, when Obama directly confronted a country that has lost faith in government - and an opposing party that preys on that cynicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein: Obama's Speech 'Very Tough' | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...McCain is closer to the real thing than the noble 2000 version. This one is congenitally dark, the opposite of Reagan - not confident enough in the substance of his ideas, especially on domestic policy, to run a campaign that features them. Instead, his natural sarcasm has enabled him to perfect the Bush way of politics. He is, sadly, Mr. August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bush Taught McCain | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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