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Doug Henwood wrote:
> New York Post [Page Six] - June 12, 2008
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> MCCAIN SQUAD OUT-TALKS O'S
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> IF only John McCain could use surrogates instead of having to debate
> Barack Obama in person. The other day in Toronto, McCain's team, his
> foreign-policy adviser Niall Ferguson and conservative columnist
> Charles Krauthammer, crushed the Obama squad - Samantha Power, who
> had to step down from his campaign after calling Hillary Clinton "a
> monster," and Richard Holbrooke, who was Bill Clinton's UN ambassa
> dor. Before the debate, only 21 percent of the audience agreed with
> the motion that "the world is a safer place with a Republican in the
> White House." Two hours later, the mostly liberal, anti-George Bush
> crowd had a profound change of heart: 43 percent ended up voting for
> the motion. "Was it simply that Power was the weakest of the speakers
> on the stage?" columnist Shinan Govani wondered. "Or did it point to
> a weakness in the Obama brand?" Power, a Pulitzer-winning Harvard
> professor, left "shocked and visibly downbeat," Govani reports. "What
> happened?" she was heard asking.
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