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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Not long after my baby was born, my partner and I ventured out to Target to pick up some essentials. I was sitting on a low shelf in the infant and toddler section, feeding the baby while I watched a beautiful couple -- the wife about a decade or so older than me, the husband probably 20 years on -- run from aisle to aisle picking up the basics of infant care (a car seat, onesies, little beanie hats). I began forming a story for them in my head: She was his second wife, I decided, and they were shopping for his grandson. I was right on the first count, but not the second: they were shopping ...
"Joe the Plumber" strikes again!Ever since John McCain elevated the fantastical hypotheticist to national prominence in the last debate, he and McCain have become increasingly intertwined. First, McCain turned Joe into a campaign slogan and archetype for whiny, non-existent quarter-millionaire working stiffs. Then, he put Joe out on the stump, where Joe usually showed up.Now, McCain says that the pipe-and-drain enthusiast is the wind beneath his wings. That makes Joe more than just a surrogate for McCain. In fact, it almost sounds like McCain is Joe's surrogate.So, has McCain disagreed, yet, ...
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