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Track 9: There Was a Time Again, an artsy intro. Then a ballad that kind of swings, if heavy metal ballad can swing. Oddly the verse is catchier than the chorus. And the guitarwork is kind of pretty and bluesy and mournful, as if it were hurt by a woman it trusted but then went and did it wrong. These guitars are so hurt the song lasts almost seven minutes. Grade: A- Overall grade...
...Certainly this kind of seasonal shifting of messages isn't new for a presidential campaign, in which candidates typically move to the fringes to appeal to their party's all-important base in primaries and the center to appeal to crucial moderate and independent swing voters in the general election. Richard Nixon practically perfected the transformation in 1968, initially building his "silent majority" of conservatives freaked out by hippie war protesters and inner-city riots before selling his "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War in the fall. But having spent the last 16 months pledging to be "the change...
...political campaign this fall. Despite anti-G.O.P. sentiment in the country and record low popularity for President George W. Bush, Democrats still trail on national security, and that could hurt them in Congress. Stonewalling the Administration and letting the surveillance powers expire could have cost the Democrats swing seats they won in 2006 as well as new ones they have a chance to steal from Republicans this November. "For any Republican-leaning district this would have been a huge issue," says a top Pelosi aide, who estimates that as many as 10 competitive races could have been affected...
...Michelle if there could be anything to it; the candidate's wife dismissed it out of hand. But by mid-May, it was picking up steam on the Internet, and Michelle's advisers decided it was time to have a serious talk with her about it. On a campaign swing through Oregon, Michelle's chief of staff Melissa Winter grilled her on the particulars of the various versions. Had she ever spoken at Trinity Church? Could she ever recall having uttering that racial epithet? No, no, Michelle answered again and again. Additionally, she said, "whitey" is simply not a word...
...Webb takes some politically risky turns in A Time to Fight, especially his chapter on the foolishness of mandatory drug-sentencing laws. He also takes a well-calibrated, if expected, swing at the Bush Administration's naive neoconservative foreign policy - after all, Webb opposed going to war in Iraq in a 2002 Washington Post Op-Ed piece. But he is best on matters of immediate concern to his personal tribes, the military and the Scots-Irish working class. "The ultimate question," Webb writes about Democrats and the military, "is this: When you look at a veteran, what...