Friday, September 19, 2008 - Posts
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Julia asked the McCain campaign about the actual cost of Cindy McCain's convention outfit and got no answer. Here's my similiarly cold-shouldered question, which a reader sent in via e-mail and I posed to the campaign a couple of days ago: What's Sarah Palin's history of domestic travel? Which parts of the country other than Alaska and Idaho has she spent significant time in or visited briefly? How much time has she spent in the South, the Midwest, the East Coast, and doing what? The McCain campaign can exaggerate Palin's foreign travel history while she disparages the notion that a record of meeting with foreign dignitaries is a good thing in a vice presidential candidate, I suppose. But what's the argument for not explaining how well Palin knows the different regions of this country—the one she says she is ready to run? Has anyone seen a good run down that I've missed?
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Leave it to one of my journalistic heroes, Sydney Schanberg, to uncover war hero John McCain’s really puzzling behavior toward those POWs who never made it out of that cage in Hanoi. Forget how many houses the guy has; this is important stuff. Schanberg’s devastating investigative piece, which appears in this week’s Nation, begins: “John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.’’ What about it, John? I’d really like to understand.
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