McCain’s Tortured Logic

By Madison Powers, Guest Columnist and CQ Staff

Posted June 18, 2008 at 12:00am

saying the obvious.
McCain elaborated,
did not say.
Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears regularly on Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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