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The McCain List. This article is a great read from a couple of days ago.

Norman Bates pointed out to me that it was excerpted on McCain's website here: Following McCain’s Lead on Russia, Iraq

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John McCain's assessment stands up much better: He said that, looking at Putin, he "saw three letters: a K, a G and a B.

McCain's judgment benefits from years of marinating in national-security issues and traveling and getting to know the key players; from a hatred of tinpot dictators and bloody thugs that guides his moral compass - and from a flinty realism (verging at times on fatalism) that is resistant to illusions about personalities, the inevitable direction of History or the nature of the world.

I keep hearing, "Why would you vote FOR McCain, not just AGAINST Obama?"

Well, here's why.