Word: want
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McCain's unified-field theory has room for issues ranging from voter apathy (people don't bother voting because they believe money runs the show) to abortion (organizations on both sides use the bitter fight for fund raising and don't want to find areas of compromise). He even finds a place for stubbornly local issues such as education. Move against corporate welfare, he says, and you can free up cash to help poor kids attend better schools. He suggests putting an end to $5.4 billion in sugar, ethanol and gas-and-oil subsidies and spending it on a three...
...leaves behind; McCain of courage and the forces of evil at work in the "City of Satan." Bush, all lightness of being, struggles to be viewed as serious enough for the job; McCain, all coiled conviction, is so intense he has to struggle to be seen as normal. Both want to make over the Republican Party: one says he wants to give it a heart; the other says he wants to give it a conscience. Put them together, and it's easy to think you're looking at the ticket right...
...tinny but measured, "I don't really mind people picking on me. I know what I can do. I've never held myself out to be any great genius, but I'm plenty smart. And I've got good common sense and good instincts. And that's what people want in their leader...
...immigration, two areas of "foreign policy" he encountered as Governor of a state that shares a 900-mile border with Mexico. Bush proved as much in Sioux City, Iowa, where he took a vague question from the crowd to deliver a message of compassion toward illegal immigrants. "I want to remind you of something about immigration," Bush told his nearly all-white audience. "Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River. There are moms and dads [who] have children in Mexico. And they're hungry ... And they're going to come to try to find work. If they...
...unshakable self-confidence keeps him from avoiding mistakes. On a trip to New Hampshire in September, Bush was cruising the streets and storefronts of downtown Milford when he encountered a woman who asked what he would do to "promote peace in the Middle East." Bush didn't hesitate. "I want to stand by Israel," he declared. "We're not gonna allow Israel to be pushed into the Red Sea." And then he said, "There's something called the Arrow missile system, which is an inter-ballistic, a short-range inter-ballistic missile system that intercepts missiles coming from [elsewhere...