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...Your "Five Faces" omitted the one I consider most salient: the wimp. Having backed down on the things he should have stood up for - peace, the environment, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, separation of church and state - Obama is now a Republican lite, like John Kerry was. That's not change I can believe in, and I am afraid it will cost him the election. Janet Maker, Los Angeles...
...land of dry grass, live oaks and the slow, brown waters of the Trinity and the Brazos, sanctified by the likes of John Wayne and Glenn Ford. Folks there would give Bush a third term if they could; you could see it in the way Texas delegates at the Republican Convention whooped and waved their matching straw cowboy hats whenever his name was mentioned in St. Paul, Minn...
...much. For the first time in 40 years, an incumbent President wasn't featured at his own party's convention. Bush was beamed in antiseptically from a seemingly empty White House, a lonely guy in quarantine, for a nine-minute speech. Senator Joseph Lieberman, who isn't even a Republican, spoke more than twice as long--and in prime time...
...that she's taking it for granted. Palin has been sequestered for days with former Bush Administration speechwriter Matthew Scully, among other wordsmiths, wonks and speech coaches, boning up on policy and crafting her text. She is said to be keenly aware, as one leading Republican noted, that an untested candidate, dropped into the last weeks of a close race, can sink a campaign in a few disastrous sentences...
...training from American military advisers. (Georgia also sent 2,000 men to fight alongside the U.S. in Iraq.) Several U.S. citizens, including Daniel Kunin, the son of former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin, have worked as senior aides to Saakashvili's administration. Randy Scheunemann, a senior adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, was a lobbyist for Georgia until earlier this year. And the Georgian President has friends in high circles in the U.S., including Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden and McCain himself...