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Who says John McCain doesn’t talk straight anymore?
At Yankee Stadium Sunday, McCain chatted on the field with Oakland A’s Manager Bob Geren, who asked what it was like to run for president. McCain then summed up his last four months in 15 words: “It’s like being in AA and all of a sudden you’re playing in Yankee Stadium.”
True that.
(The above referenced AA is a baseball league, by the way, not a meeting for recovering addicts.)
With a divided Congress still standing at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the annual White House budget isn’t a policy proposal destined for markup in the subcommittee rooms of the Capitol. It’s a statement of principle. And in an election year, it’s something more: Obama’s $3.8 trillion fiscal year 2013 budget, unveiled on Monday, marked the debut of his re-election platform. In among the bar charts and bullet-points was the President’s story about why he needs a second term.
