yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 8/15/2008
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Here’s Howard Fineman on the McCain campaign’s claims that Barack Obama doesn’t put his country first: I asked McCain’s closest advisor and friend, Mark Salter, for an example of a time when Obama did not “put the country first.” His answer: the Senate maneuvering of immigration legislation. In his view, Obama did big labor’s bidding by helping to kill the chances for a grand compromise on ...
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An odd example of ‘putting country first’
Political Animal —
... And this week, as the McCain campaign began to push the line that Barack Obama doesn’t put “country first,” the same team relied on the same example. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman ...
An odd example of ‘putting country first’
Political Animal —
... And this week, as the McCain campaign began to push the line that Barack Obama doesn’t put “country first,” the same team relied on the same example. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman ...
An odd example of ‘putting country first’
Crooks and Liars —
... And this week, as the McCain campaign began to push the line that Barack Obama doesn’t put “country first,” the same team relied on the same example. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman ...
An odd example of ‘putting country first’
Crooks and Liars —
... And this week, as the McCain campaign began to push the line that Barack Obama doesn’t put “country first,” the same team relied on the same example. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman ...
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