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...Most campaign journalism has a terrible sameness about it, and there are portions of this piece, culled from Wallace's week with John McCain during the fractious 2000 GOP primary race, that read like lots of other stories by lesser writers. But while he got caught up in the misery of travel and the griping of the press pack, Wallace also noticed that it was the television camera men who were the most trustworthy witnesses and analysts of the candidates' chances, and developed a deep appreciation for the sacrifices John McCain made, and the indignities he faced, as he tried...
...suspend their campaign ads, and Obama and McCain visited the World Trade Center site together. (Obama had lunch with Bill Clinton in his Harlem office earlier in the day, while McCain visited Shanksville, Pa., the crash site of United Flight 93.) Given that most polls have shown the race to be tightening, the candidates will no doubt be eager to get back on the stump. Obama and McCain took the day to step back - for the most part - from an intensifying political debate, perhaps mindful of the last presidential campaign. In 2004, John Kerry had used 9/11 to blast George...
Sticking mostly to scholarly concerns, Hammonds did touch upon current affairs, including the rise of mixed-race presidential candidate Barack Obama. She discussed the norm of using phenotypic, rather than genotypic, racial identification. Obama is just as much Caucasian as he is African American, she emphasized, though he is identified as the latter because of his appearance...
...What does this mean for the presidential race...
...What he's got is mind-blowing confidence. He doesn't do doubt," says Nick Marcq, a filmmaker and godfather to the Camerons' youngest son. Another defining characteristic, says Marcq, is Cameron's formidable willpower. He recalls that Cameron once challenged him to an underwater race in a 50-m-long swimming pool during a family holiday. "I must have got 10 m before I came up because my heart was about to pop. He went...