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...times he seemed totally lost, like he was seeing the speech on the teleprompter for the first time. But you finally saw blood, flesh and spit, saw a real human being talking about America's fortunes and Obama's vision like he was leaning against your back door and grabbing you by the lapels. And when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair pivoted to foreign policy, he took out Karl Rove's playbook and went straight after McCain's greatest perceived strength. He ran down a litany of charges, on Afghanistan, Iran, time lines in Iraq, and declared that...
...learned over the past eight years that the world of politics he'd like to inhabit is not the world he inhabits," says Dan Schnur, the communications director from the 2000 campaign. The world he inhabits paid almost no attention to McCain's heartfelt and self-critical speech about Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn., but has buzzed about McCain's tawdry ads comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Moses...
...Obama staffer suggested, without evidence, that McCain might have left the "cone of silence" before a forum at Rick Warren's Saddle Creek Church, McCain spokeswoman Nicole Wallace said, "The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous." And in a speech this week questioning Obama's foreign policy judgment and interpretation of the end of the Cold War, McCain himself mentioned, "Now I missed a few years of the Cold War, as the guest of one of our adversaries...
Indeed, from the beginning of the campaign, McCain has consistently made his time in captivity a feature of his stump speech. On tours through New Hampshire and Iowa, he told a cycle of stories: a tale about a prison mate who was caught and beaten for sewing an American flag, and one about a North Vietnamese prison guard who drew a cross in the dirt to demonstrate to McCain his Christian faith. He has also described in some detail the painful rope bonds that his captors would tie him in overnight...
Aides to Barack Obama say he had one question when he was presented with the idea of moving his acceptance speech out of the Pepsi Center here and across the highway to an enormous football stadium...