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Article: Once derided as an idealist, McCain hands label to Obama ; Paints Democrat as an immature version of himself
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2008
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CAMPAIGN 2008
WASHINGTON - John McCain's first broadside against Barack Obama,
as a bearer of only "rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas,"
was grounded in a familiar critique: the idealist driven by ego and
elevated by media coverage into a messenger for a purer brand of
politics.
In his first presidential race eight years ago, opponents pinned
that caricature on McCain. This week, he used it on Obama.
"He has run entirely on his persona being different. It's
important that we puncture that myth," Mark Salter, McCain's chief
speechwriter, said of Obama. "What we've got to get people to see is
one guy is real and one guy is just a promise."
McCain has repeatedly pledged that he would ...