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Former Congressman Jeb BradleyLONDONDERRY- Red Sox legend Rico Petrocelli spent the night attending a fundraiser for former Congressman Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro).
"He's a man of dignity he is a man of character. The one thing I love, and maybe this is my athletic background, he's a fighter. I was so happy to hear that he was going to go at it again," Petrocelli told the group.
The thinking behind John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin makes sense—on the surface. No woman has ever been nominated for national office by the G.O.P., so the news will cause a stir, which will help McCain both in the short-term—as he tries to deny Barack Obama a meaningful convention bounce—and in the long-run, since the 72-year-old McCain has struggled to build excitement and capture headlines.
The Obama campaign is not giving an inch when it comes to John McCain choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. In a statement released Friday, there was no warm language about the first female Republican vice presidential nominee, just a straightforward hit.
The discovery that John McCain’s remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing -- but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?