Political Editor, Los Angeles Times
Political editor in the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, and blogger at the paper's Top of the Ticket
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Don Frederick
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FROM Don Frederick
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Campaign Rhetoric Heats Up Over the weekend, John McCain said Barack Obama 's "word cannot be trusted." Retired General Wesley Clark, supporting Obama, said about McCain , "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President." Today Obama went to Independence Missouri, Harry Truman's hometown, to talk about patriotism and sacrifice . Don Frederick, an editor at the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, blogs at the paper's Top of the Ticket.
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