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No time to go wobbly, John

September 25, 2008 by Dave Knadler

Maybe John McCain is being totally altruistic in his decision to suspend his presidential campaign so he can concentrate on fast-tracking the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. Maybe he really thinks the bailout will save us from a depression, and that it won’t get passed if he and his opponent are not in Washington […]

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Beauty isn’t everything. Right?

September 23, 2008 by Dave Knadler

American political campaigns are all about celebrity. The essential objective is to become more famous than one’s opponent in a short amount of time. You do this with sly commercials, and pithy put-downs, and three-word mantras chanted by supporters, and, if you’re lucky, by sheer personal attractiveness. That’s why I first thought the not-so-attractive […]

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In it to win it — by default, if necessary

May 23, 2008 by Dave Knadler

Look, we’ve all thought it, watching the young, energetic Barack Obama work the crowds in that charismatic way of his. But it took Hillary Clinton to say it: The last young, energetic, charismatic guy who was this close to the presidency got assassinated. Hillary raised the specter of Robert Kennedy during another explanation of […]

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