Post-election, Meghan McCain has a commendable urgency to speak but a maddening lack of preparation.

(Originally posted at TheNation.com)

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In a 2007 Salon piece about Meghan McCain's debut into the mainstream, her father, John McCain, responded to a question about whether he approved of his daughter's openness...

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