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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 --- 29 days ago http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsHorserace/~3/343610400/entry4285159.shtml
| John McCain is feeling neglected these days. While Barack Obama is off gallivanting around the globe and getting the kind of media attention usually reserved for an actual president, McCain finds himself struggling, not too successfully, to get into the storyline. McCain"s campaign tried to pre-empt Obama"s trip last week by releasing an ad attacking Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan even as the Democrat was en route to the war zones. Yesterday, the campaign ratcheted up their growing complaints about the media"s coverage of Obama by posting a Web video mocking the press and basically belittling those intrepid journalists traveling with McCain. The frustration is understandable for someone who has been accused of being the media"s darling for nearly a decade. Back in the halcyon days of the 2000 campaign, McCain was on the other side of the equation, basking in the media attention his bull sessions on the Straight Talk Express created. It was McCain, in those days, who the media seemed to be infatuated with. And the interest did not wane in the years after the election as McCain became one of the best-known fixtures on the media circuit. But the reasons for the attention McCain has traditionally received from the press aren"t hard to figure out. His personal story as a war hero and POW has always been a riveting storyline for the senator - one that his campaign uses often themselves. His bitter primary battle with George W. Bush in 2000 e ... |
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