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yeah, stevo,
or maybe barak obama is a fresh senator who isn't trying to play politics at all but actually has a heartfelt disagreement on certain issues with McCain.
in that case, McCain ought to agree as a senator ought to disagree and has always in the past and vote or corrrepsond with the person in question--not publicly denigrate the person for his inexperience and cast aspersion on his intentions claiming that he is only after his party's interest rather than the public good.
Now see, in partisan politics, either member of a party often will take a disagreement and attribute it to irrational adherence to party policy. In the real world, reasonable people will agree that sometimes people just have different ideas about how things ought to be done. And both understand that the other just has a different notion of how best to implement policy that would serve the nation's interest. McCain claims to be part of the latter group, but his letter reads like it's coming from the former.
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