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Article: Blame McCain's Aides For His Speech
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- Human Events
- Article date:
- June 16, 2008
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What's going on inside the McCain campaign? Maybe I've read too much Conan Doyle and Le Carre. Maybe too much of my young professional life was spent in the company of people who built satellites to detect faint electronic signals in enemy lands. Nevertheless, there are too many faint signals coming out of McCain's inner circle to ignore. And they do not bode well for the candidate.
McCain's June 3 speech-designed to rob Obama of some media attention-might have been a good idea and might not have been. But it was poorly written, badly staged and obviously a text McCain wasn't comfortable with. McCain's themes were good, but the speech made him sound petty, almost as if he were a challenger ...