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...spacious Scarborough house (actually three Georgian townhouses that he connected) where he lives with his second wife, former actress Heather Stoney. The effects of his stroke are visible. He walks unsteadily, and his left hand is fairly useless, reducing his two-finger typing method to just one. Yet his speech and mental acuity are undiminished. ("My head's working fine," he says - though "I still have a problem with a group of people, if they're all talking at once.") He laughs frequently, dives into anecdotes with an actor's relish and a repertoire of spot-on accents, reminisces good...
...campaign. “I think it just goes to show that people are really enthused about this election, they’re excited about Obama’s candidacy, and they’re ready to finally see some real change,” he said. In his speech, Vilsack called Nov. 4 “the most important election of my lifetime.” Citing a disastrous economic situation, a poor standing on the international stage, and the energy crisis as examples of the failed policies of the Bush administration, Vilsack emphasized the need to focus...
...party. “Poverty and urban issues are often mis-characterized as issues that the Republican Party is not interested in,” he said. “We are committed to poverty reduction and urban issues.” Reverend Hamilton followed Bush’s speech with a discussion about his experiences as a pastor at the Roxbury Presbyterian Church and, like Bush, emphasized the importance of engaging the poor and building community relationships. Hamilton praised the bipartisan nature of last night’s event and highlighted the need to work together across political...
...issue has become, to some extent, the Republican answer to any and all questions that come up on the economy. McCain returns to it in nearly every speech on the subject, even though drilling has as much to do with the collapse of Wall Street financial firms or the falling job market as abortion does. The drilling issue may even help explain his choice of running mate - Sarah Palin's one area of true expertise can be said to be the politics of energy extraction...
...ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent-and witting-disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore drilling...