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Political analysts say the Democratic presidential race is about gender, race and generational change. Maybe that's so, at least in places such as New Hampshire where it came down to Hillary Clinton's gender and South Carolina where it may come down to Barack Obama's race. Candidate McCain is an unlikely conciliator WASHINGTON -- In 2004, one of John McCain's closest associates, John Weaver, spoke to John Kerry about the possibility of McCain running as Kerry's vice presidential running mate. In "No Excuses," Bob Shrum's memoir of his role in numerous presidential campaigns, including Kerry's, Shrum writes that Weaver assured Kerry that "McCain was serious about the possibility of teaming up with him," and Kerry approached McCain. He, however, was more serious about seeking the 2008 Republican nomination. Letters to the Editor Grandma finally tosses vase of pussy willows Grandma called with a most intriguing request. She wanted permission to finally let go of a piece of artwork I created in the early 1970s. If I wanted to keep it, that would be fine, too. She could wrap it up and mail it to me when the weather broke -- she recently moved to upstate New York to be near my uncle and they'd been having snowstorms regularly since she arrived. Dems opposition reduced to whimpering It seems like only yesterday. In 1990, I first entered politics in Oklahoma. I ran for a seat on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the agency tasked with regulating public utilities and our oil and gas industry. |
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