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McCain opts out of hard truths
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 04, 2008 06:18pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Monday, August 4, 2008 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The past few weeks have seen a change in McCain. He has hired new advisers, and with them he seems to have worked out a new approach. He is no longer telling the sorts of hard truths that people would prefer not to confront, or even half-truths that they might find vaguely discomfiting. Instead, he’s opted out of truth altogether. “Well, that certainly didn’t take long,” the Times observed.
Recent history suggests that Presidential campaigns don’t reward integrity; the candidate who refuses to compromise his principles is unlikely to have a chance to act on them. Still, McCain’s slide is saddening. That he has sunk to the level of “Pump” a full month before Labor Day really doesn’t leave him—or the race—far to go. |
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