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That's why the McCain team decided to go for broke. Under the direction of top political strategist Steve Schmidt, the campaign's new goal is to tag Obama as nothing more than an untested politician with considerable rhetorical talents while touting McCain as the proven independent reformer voters already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New McCain | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

Commenters tend to respond with surprise--they're shocked, shocked!--when people call them on being not nice. In their social universe, this kind of rhetorical slap-fighting is just how you do business, and anybody who feels otherwise is thin-skinned and humorless. As lame and self-serving as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Post Apocalypse | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

The "freeze for freeze" plan is designed to prevent further escalation of the nuclear standoff, in which three rounds of U.N. sanctions and escalating rhetorical threats that have fueled war jitters and driven up oil prices have failed to budge Iran. Iranian officials had said before the latest offer was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iranian Leaders Offer Nuclear Hope | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

What is most interesting about the book, though, is what it says about the fleeting spell of Bush loyalty; the rhetorical Red-Rover that formed up around the president can be broken up, after all. It draws into relief the startling extent to which modern politics have become a merciless...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: The Measure of a Man | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Then, in the kind of unapologetic, in-your-face move for which Obama's campaign has become known, the presumptive nominee deplaned and made his way to the St. Paul Xcel Center, the hockey arena in which Republicans plan to bestow their nomination on John McCain during the party's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Speech, Obama Heals, Then Attacks | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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