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Why McCain Has More 'Friends' Than Facebook

The candidate wants to be your buddy

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 1, 2008 3:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – John McCain wants to be your friend. He regularly and repeatedly addresses audiences as “my friends,” Paul Collins writes for Slate, calling the habit  "the most mystifying verbal tic of any politician since Bob Dole." FDR and William Jennings Bryan shared...   Read full story »

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