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Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:28 AM

Crooks and Liars: An odd example of ‘putting country first’

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In late June, the McCain campaign was aggressively pushing the line that John McCain has taken political risks by working with Dems on important issues. Pressed for a recent example to bolster the claim, a campaign spokesperson said , “It’s fairly significant that Senator McCain worked on the immigration reform legislation while he was pursing the nomination of his party,” adding that he “reached across the aisle despite a heated primary campaign.” And this week, as the McCain campaign began to push the line that Barack Obama doesn’t put “country first,” the same team relied on the same example . Newsweek’s Howard Fineman reported : I asked McCain’s closest advisor and friend, Mark Salter, for an example of a time when Obama did not...
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