In a race that is being fought essentially over the Clinton legacy (see article), Mr McCain appears as different from the incumbent as it is possible to be.

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If it is what it appears to be-a blueprint for the Obama administration's effort to construct a foreign policy different from George W. Bush's-then the nation's governing elite is in the process of taking a sharp, indeed radical, turn away from the principles and practices of representative self-government that have been at the core of the American experiment since the nation's founding.

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