Word: characterizations
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This was the campaign Bush set out to run, with that talk of restoring the dignity of the office--and McCain is beating him at his own game. "People want to elect a statue," observes Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, a devout Bush backer. "They want a hero, an unblemished and...
On foreign affairs and the military, McCain is an acknowledged expert, and his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee has taught him about the mysteries of the information economy. But on most other issues, he's paper thin; he can give you a position but not its underpinnings. He puts...
This is not to say that if you're going to pull the wool over our eyes, make it cashmere and we won't mind so much. Gore's hedging springs from a place he can escape from more easily than Clinton can. Clinton's mom convinced him he was...
I met John McCain four years ago, while writing a book about the last presidential campaign. Our relationship began along the usual journalistic lines, but it soon grew into a genuine friendship. Friendship with a politician is corrupting for a journalist, of course. The obligations of friendship are forever colliding...
A BELIEF THAT CHARACTER TRUMPS IDEOLOGY