09-08-2008, 12:42 PM
Op-Ed Columnist
<b>Palin and McCainâs Shotgun Marriage</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â "It's shocking to see that the American media is now starting to talk as if Barack Obama had already lost the election."
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As is nakedly evident, the speechâs central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)
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<b>Palin and McCainâs Shotgun Marriage</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â "It's shocking to see that the American media is now starting to talk as if Barack Obama had already lost the election."
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As is nakedly evident, the speechâs central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)
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