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Senator McCain, please meet Chairman Cox. He will be your running mate. The chairman will use his youth and Conservative base to offset your negatives, and with his favorite son status, he will deliver California for you. Lastly, if you don't muck things up too badly with the economy, he will be the next true Republican President of the United States.

p>Thank me later. br> -- Ira M. Kessel br> Rochester, New York /p> p> WEASEL WORDER br> Re: George Neumayr's Wedding Belle : /p>

In addition to being exposed as the far-left ideologue he is, Obama is now showing himself to be a coward and a weasel. He can't bring himself to say that he supports same-sex marriage, so he allows his wife to be the point "man" on this issue even though she still uses subterfuge in her choice of words. The man hyped as our country's political savior and who hopes to be elected president using slogans like "change we can believe in" won't clearly articulate what kind of change he is proposing for fear that it will be resoundingly rejected by average Americans. So, in an effort to keep from alienating the ideologically pure base of his party and not offending everyone else, he parses his words when he speaks on this issue in public. He claims to be an agent of change but he's no different than the majority of politicians these days.

Just once I want to hear someone running for office say what he means without first checking with a coterie of his political consultants to make sure that his statement contains enough obfuscation to leave him wiggle-room if the comment proves to be politically damaging. It is this type of spinelessness that contributes to the abysmal approval ratings for politicians of all stripes.

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