McCain foresees 100-year war

Seattle Post Intelligencer by Helen Thomas | Feb. 17, 2008 (Opinion)

The right wingers in the party -- especially the hard-line radio talk show commentators like Rush Limbaugh -- have lashed out harshly against McCain for his apostasy. But these critics have no other place to go.

After losing the nomination to Bush in the 2000 race for the presidential nomination, McCain has devoted a lot of time to wooing evangelicals and pandering to the far right in his party. Early on, he made amends with the late Jerry Falwell ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: War in Iraq, Democrats, Democratic Nomination, John McCain
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 17, 2008 - 6:51 PM PST
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Roland F. Hirsch (review), Marty Heyman (review)
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Marty Heyman
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 by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

This Op-Ed damns McCain with faint praise and takes a fairly blatant shot at Hillary Clinton. I'm not sure I got the point but then I suspect the piece was supposed to be an atmospheric thing and not a real hard-hitting opinion. It raises all the questions of integrity and trustworthiness and fails to draw a direct conclusion other than worrying about GW Bush's endorsement. <sighs>.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Thomas tours the newly neo-conservative presidential chimera. The independent maverick dogmaticly rigid perfect candidates.

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Roland F. Hirsch
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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece has no journalistic merit. The author provides a range of opinions, most of them not based on any factual evidence, in her effort to put as many loaded adjectives into one column as possible.

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