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• Community organizer’ becomes a punch line
... Obama for using “community organizer” as a credential illustrates a Republican strategy of taking what an opponent thought was one of his strengths and trying to convert it into a weakness — like the Republican attacks on John Kerry's Vietnam ...
• Young Jeezy inspires Phelps, gets political
We’re going to deal with it the same way when the Vietnam War was going on: with good music. We’re going to party our way through it; we cannot sit here and cry about it.
• Biden to vigorously challenge Palin on issues
The military presence would seem to benefit McCain, a former Navy aviator who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain refused offers of early release and returned home on crutches and unable to lift his arms.
• McCain moves to center stage
Palin joined other Republican speakers Wednesday night in praising McCain as a man of character, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who had spent his early career in the military and had sought to change the ways of politics in Washington.
• Thompson raps Obama on abortion answer
He also said that McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, has traveled to Iraq eight times since 2003 "seeking truth, not publicity.