THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

Once derided as an idealist, McCain hands label to Obama

Paints Democrat as an immature version of himself

By Sasha Issenberg
Globe Staff / February 15, 2008

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WASHINGTON - John McCain's first broadside against Barack Obama, as a bearer of only "rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas," was grounded in a familiar critique: the idealist driven by ego and elevated by media coverage into a messenger for a purer brand of politics. (Full article: 1084 words)

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