Word: pressing
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...matters, even in his own mind. The problem with trying to define McCain's Republicanism is that McCain is winging it much of the time, making it up as he goes along. Some of his thinking seems to have evolved out of discussions no more formal than the rolling press conferences on his Straight Talk Express. He likes to admit what he doesn't know--a risky kind of candor for a candidate who wants to be taken seriously--and he's sometimes ready to scrap a policy on the spot. When Jonathan Chait of the New Republic questioned...
Reporters fall into the same trap. In his genial conversations with the press, McCain often seems a good deal more moderate than he actually is. He muses about helping the have-nots, but his policies tend to help the have-a-lots. He speaks of universal health care but offers no plan to get anywhere close. And reporters give him leeway because his reputation as a crusader for reform--someone who wants to "kick the big-money boys out of Washington"--is so disarming...
...fairness, Gore had plenty of company, even among Democrats, in backing the gun lobby during the 1980s. "Back in those days everybody did," says Sarah Brady, wife of Ronald Reagan's wounded press secretary, who became outraged enough by the 1985 bill to join the cause of gun control. But there were a few exceptions. "In 18 years in the Senate, Bill Bradley never cast a single vote in support of gun owners," notes NRA spokesman Bill Powers...
...Paralyzed people fooled by a Super Bowl ad showing Christopher Reeve walking have been calling an advocacy group to find out how he was cured." --Associated Press...
...Lesante. Joseph and Lesante credit the shows with extending Joseph's mission. "Look, you get on the Sammy Lesante Show once a year, you're lucky--never mind four times in two months. But the demand was there, and it's just been incredible." says Lesante. The Associated Press has since carried the story nationwide...