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Article: Welcome to McCain's flip-flop express.(John McCain's Straight Talk Express)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2007
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Byline: Dick Polman
Join me for a trip down memory lane, aboard "maverick" John McCain's Straight Talk Express.
This was seven winters ago, long before the Washington press corps finally got hip to the fact that McCain was just another pandering politician. This was during the 2000 Republican primary season, when, at McCain's invitation, a steady procession of besotted journalists rode with him on his bus (right up front, no less) for days and weeks at a time, laughing at his jokes and reveling in the illusion that they were insiders.
I remember one frigid New Hampshire night, somewhere along Interstate 93. McCain held court, and we crowded ...