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"The picture of John McCain walking out of the Oval Office with a smiling President Bush will be an eye of the beholder moment in this campaign," NBC's Kelly O'Donnell observed. Republicans see Bush as an asset; Democrats see his unpopularity. O'Donnell quoted a Photoshopped ad of the two interchangeable faces already running in Pennsylvania under the slogan The McSame Old Thing. ABC's Ron Claiborne (embargoed link) described the mood as a warm greeting; CBS' Chip Reid heard a "fullthroated endorsement." Yet Reid reminded us that the two "have never been very close" calling Bush McCain's onetime "bitter political enemy." Claiborne pointed out that McCain kept the President waiting in the north portico of the White House and spelled out policy disputes over taxes, torture--Claiborne used the euphemism "interrogation techniques"--and Iraq. Nevertheless, NBC's O'Donnell explained, the President's nod is a godsend: "The Republican National Committee offices become a branch of Team McCain and a giftbag from the RNC includes a workforce able and ready to help McCain and cash, nearly $25m on hand."
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