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...Cannon on a bench outside the Hair Design Team salon in Troy, where she was taking a smoking break between customers. It was a pleasant afternoon, and from where she sat, the green hills of northeast Missouri - Mark Twain country - rolled gently in every direction. A lifelong resident of Lincoln County, Cannon has seen those hills stitched with new roads and dotted with parking lots, but not so much that she can't still spy open fields in the distance...
...next appointment arrived, so she stubbed out her cigarette and invited me inside the salon. As I was walking in, a distinguished older woman named Peggy Simpson was rising from one of the chairs, with her white hair immaculately coiffed. "I was leaning toward McCain," she told me, "until he said the other day that the economy is good." She was referring to a remark the candidate made as the Wall Street crisis was deepening: "The fundamentals of our economy are still strong." McCain quickly revised his statement to refer to the diligence and productivity of U.S. workers, but from...
...wound up spending a long time in the salon, though I didn't have to ask many questions. Just about everyone seemed to have a strong opinion. It was the sort of place where everyone knows one another in a small-town way, and they all talk and laugh and say outrageous things. Renee Martin, the salon's owner, told me she and her husband disagree so strongly, they can't even talk about the election anymore. And that was surprising because at first she was afraid of Obama. "What had me scared," she explained, "was the whole thing about...
...Meanwhile, not unlike the so-called Islamofascists, Sarah Palin has a different vision for the future, for a world in which, as Juan Cole observed yesterday in Salon, “faith is not a private affair of individuals but rather a moral imperative that believers should import into statecraft wherever they have the opportunity...
...White House. And then I read a biography of her in 2004 by Ann Gerhart called The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush. That reinforced the sense I had that she had led a really complex and interesting life. So I wrote this article for Salon - which I would not have written it if I'd known that I would end up writing this book - that was basically about being a liberal who has this weird admiration for Laura Bush. In that article I said that her life resembled a novel. And then two years later...