Four years ago today....
- New York Times article: Having spent several months saying he sees both sides of the Confederate-flag issue raging in South Carolina, Sen. John McCain of Arizona has issued a statement echoing the language of white Southerners trying to keep the old battle flag flying over the Capitol in Columbia.
- New York Times article: Calling it "the essence of true conservatism to be fiscally responsible,'' Sen. John McCain proposed yesterday a tax cut half the size of the one sought by Gov. George W. Bush and pledged that as president he would seek a congressional vote on a plan to overhaul Social Security by the end of his first year in office.
