Tag: Cindy McCain
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Republicans in Minnesota, a revisit
My friend, Chiara, sent me this note on Thursday, the final day of the Republican National Convention. I managed to miss the note and I’m offering it now for your consideration. Last night, my sister-in-law, Joyce, a nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of many, wrote to a number of us in the family to…
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Now, This is Satire!
Satire has to have an element of truth to it, I told a friend a couple of days ago in my argument with people over why the New Yorker magazine cover did not work as satire. I found this piece at Huffingtonpost.com talking about the same subject and using a political cartoon trying to puncture…
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Due dilligence
Jack Shafer, Slate magazine’s press critic, had a piece on Thursday that it called McCain’s Smoking Blonde. He defended The New York Times’ article about McCain’s shaky ethics. He’s got it just right. Here’s a passage: So far, I’ve yet to encounter a single critique that faults the article for its portrayal of McCain’s eccentric…
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Candor as performance art
I am sorry if I am beginning to sound like a broken record on Sen. John McCain, (D-AZ). His denial notwithstanding, this is not the first time he’s found himself under the glare and his response was almost typical. I said ‘almost’ because McCain himself would have put this story out himself and run with…
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I'm just saying . . .
(Tableau borrowed from huffingtonpost.com) The two faces of Mitt Romney were seen arguing on Boston Harbor this morning: Mitt I: See, I told you, you shouldn’t have gotten out of the race. Mitt II: You? You said nothing of the sort. I wanted to stay in and you told me I should get out and…
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Character Questions
During the South Carolina primary in 2000, Bush aides mounted a vile whispering campaign in which anonymous callers phoned voters and told them John McCain, who had won the New Hampshire primary, had an illegitimate black daughter born to a prostitute. McCain lost that primary. The child was in fact McCain’s adopted daughter, Bridget, a…