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...taught as a youngster not to get into a pissing contest with a skunk, and I got in one with [Dershowitz], to my detriment,” he said. “But now I’ll save my urine for a better purpose...
...Rating a Renegade Telling the truth can sometimes be a detriment to political fortune. However, McCain's reputation as the most honest man in Washington [Feb. 4]will help him win his party's nomination this year, particularly since GOP moderates have finally started to reclaim their party from neocon fundamentalists. Love him or hate him, McCain is the real deal. His credibility juxtaposed with Mitt Romney's flip-flopping will further underscore McCain's credibility this election cycle, virtually guaranteeing him the nomination. Jeff Robertson, FAIRBORN, OHIO...
...Obama's strength is inspiration, and it's also his weakness. In the recent past, Democrats have favored candidates who offer meaty, detailed policy prescriptions - usually to the party's detriment - and that is not Obama's game. After his Iowa victory, his stump speech had become a soufflé untroubled by much substance of any sort. He has rectified that, to some extent. He now spends some time talking about the laments of average Americans he has met along the way; then he dives into a litany of solutions he has proposed to address the laments. But those...
...supposed to acknowledge the fact that you have a child,” Woo said. “It sets you so outside the league of the majority that you don’t know if it’s going to be a positive or a detriment...
...Martel, one of the outsider presidential candidates, puts the chance that voters will view Sundquist’s past negatively at 50 percent. He points to Sundquist’s association with his boss, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, as a possible detriment to the campaign...