newyorker.com - 10/26/2008
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Now it’s John McCain’s turn to discover what sort of “friend” Joe Lieberman is. Via Andrew , Mark Pazniokas reports in today’s Hartford Courant : Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, one of John McCain’s closest political allies, said Friday he does not believe that Barack Obama is unprepared to be ...
newyorker.com - 10/27/2008
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Sometimes, when a political campaign has run out
of ideas and senses that the prize is slipping...
through its fingers, it rolls up a sleeve and plunges an arm, shoulder deep, right down to the bottom of the barrel. The problem for John McCain, Sarah ...
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Hendrik Hertzberg: Wealth-spreaders unite.
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Hullabaloo —
... prepared than McCain,” Lieberman said. But what about Sarah Palin? Is she ready? “If, God forbid, an accident occurs or something of that kind?” Lieberman said. “Um, she’ll be ready. You know, she’s had executive experience. She’s smart and she will have had on-the-job training.”… “[McCain] is ready to be our president at this very difficult time,” Lieberman said. “And Sen. Obama is not as ready. It’s as direct as that.” Hendrick Hertzberg says: Not as ready. Sweet. That little ...
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