In his new book, The Real McCain, Cliff Schecter, a journalist and frequent contributor at the Huffington Post related perhaps the most disturbing of McCain’s tirades. During his 2000 White House bid, the Senator was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, his aides, and three journalists who spoke to Schecter on condition of anonymity, but independently confirmed each other’s accounts of the incident. Cindy McCain playfully ran her fingers through the Senator’s hair and teased, “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain reddened and fired back, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollup, you cunt.” After he’d cooled down, McCain apologized, saying he’d had a long day.
A reader writes:
I am an American who is a graduate student in the UK, and I have been congratulated by people from around the world over the past couple of days for the Obama nomination. Strangers hear my accent, and want to talk about Obama. One British person said, “America didn’t become the nation it did with guns and tanks; it became the nation it did with ideas. An Obama presidency represents everything that America has told the world about itself in the past century—and what the rest of the world wanted to expect out of America. The idea that you talk before acting, the idea that you make friends, not enemies, and the idea that anything is possible.”
Another Italian told me, “Obama will cause my country to fall in love with America again.”
Soft power?
Most Americans have not quite absorbed the enormous blow to America’s image abroad delivered by the Bush administration. Obama has helped erase it already.
I think one of us (or all of us) should start a website where the international crowd can hypothetically vote for mccain or obama. I completely assume they would go for obama since they don’t want their country bombed anytime soon. Every1votes.com is avails.
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Fox on McCain’s speech.
Sometimes I wonder if I’ve become some young, crazed liberal democrat and that the other half of the country is believing in this old jackass that gives a speech like a seventh grader.
“The primaries showed that the U.S. is actually the nation we had believed it to be, a place that is open-minded enough to have a woman or an African American as its president,” - Minoru Morita, a Tokyo political analyst.
The excitement the Democratic race has provoked abroad and the genuine enthusiasm the Obama candidacy generates in the developing world can only be a good sign for restoring some of the soft power squandered by the Bush administration. That was my hope last fall. So far, so good.
via [dailydish]
Tim!
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