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Cameron doesn't deny his past, but he's keen not to dwell on it either, even though the politics of envy - once a potent weapon for Labour - has lost traction. That was the cheering message Tories could take from their May by-election victory in Crewe and Nantwich, a constituency in northwest England. Edward Timpson, heir to a shoe-repair chain, won easily there, despite a negative campaign that burlesqued him as a "Tory toff." Likewise, concludes Iain Dale, a Conservative blogger and the publisher of Total Politics magazine, Cameron's background is no longer an electoral liability...
...That potent combination caught the attention of music mogul Alan McGee (who signed Primal Scream and Oasis, among others, to his former label) when he saw Glasvegas playing third on the bill at Glasgow's tiny King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2006. "The night was more exciting to me than when I saw and signed Oasis at the same venue," McGee wrote on his blog for the Guardian. Lisa Marie Presley was inspired to seek out the band in Scotland last year after hearing their demo online. By this June, influential British music magazine...
...economy that displaced Main Street America - an economy where people no longer work in factories or make things with their hands, but where lawyers and traders prosper unduly. (Of course, this is the economy the Republican Party has promoted - but facts are powerless in the face of a potent mythology.) Obama is the precise opposite of Mountain Man Todd Palin: an entirely urban creature. He lives within the hilarious conundrum of being both too "cosmopolitan" and intellectual for Republican tastes - at least as Rudy Giuliani described it - while also being the sort of fellow suspected of getting ahead by affirmative...
...greater potential for justice and creativity - and perhaps even prosperity - than the sepia-tinted version of Main Street America. But that vision is not sellable right now to a critical mass of Americans. They live in a place, not unlike C. Vann Woodward's South, where myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities they face each...
...there weren't any new ones. McCain's energy plan sounded just like Obama's, without the closing of loopholes and tax breaks for big oil companies that Obama (and apparently Sarah Palin, who passed a windfall-profits tax) favors. But he failed to disarm Obama's most potent criticism: that he essentially favors the same policies - especially the economic policies - as George W. Bush. And it wasn't corruption that caused those policies to fail; it was the radical orthodoxy of the vision...