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Burning Down The House

Noah Daniels Powers Boothe returns as the voice of the McCain campaign in a second television ad that refers vaguely to policy initiatives that sum up McCain’s plans with a series of adjectives (“Taxes: Simpler, Fairer; Energy: Cleaner, Cheaper”) and absolutely no details on what McCain would actually do.  I believe he is also against crime and likes children.  The ad promises that these initiatives will “ignite our economy.”  Igniting the economy sounds like something a pyromaniac central banker would try to do.  It is probably not the best phrasing.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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