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...warrior too, with her own discipline, her own mission, her own scars. (Her wrist is in a soft cast?some of the bones are fused?because of injuries made worse by fans who shook her hand too enthusiastically.) "I want my sons led by a Commander in Chief who understands what it means to send young men and women into combat?and more importantly, how to bring them home." That's been enough to keep her in the trenches?even when she's the one coming under fire...
...Schmidt is the candidate's drill sergeant, Mark Salter is his purported soul. A brooding writer who wears a goatee, faded Levis and a cigarette on his lips, Salter is known as the author of the McCain myth, the pen behind five of the Senator's books, the chief deacon in the Church of John. His soaring sentences are said to have been forged from experience, from a youth that had him pounding Iowa railroad ties and dating Miss USA. But neither man has too much patience for his own reputation. Salter, the writer, knows how the game works...
Salter, 53, goes back with McCain longer, and the ties between the two are deeper. Raised in Davenport, Iowa, and schooled at Georgetown, he fell into a freelance speech-writing job for McCain in 1988. Before long, he had become McCain's chief of staff and one of his closest friends. Salter married a former McCain aide. His house in Maine was purchased with the proceeds from the books he wrote for McCain. Mark McKinnon, a veteran of the Bush campaigns who worked closely with McCain and Salter during the primaries, describes Salter's role as that of three staffers...
...generational narrative got up and danced as Clinton laid on his hands: Sixteen years ago, he told the roaring crowd, Democrats gave him the honor of leading them: "We prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be Commander in Chief. Sound familiar?" It didn't work then, he said, "because we were on the right side of history. And it won?t work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history." A President who spent eight years after the White House building himself into a global...
...learning how to talk about gas and housing prices with passion - but his driving issue is America's honor in a dangerous world. He has framed his support for the surge in Iraq - and Obama's unrepentant opposition - as proof of his superior qualifications to be Commander in Chief and of Obama's willingness to put politics before country...