<![CDATA[If You Really Want to Understand What This Race is About, Look at the Two Candidates' Fathers]]>

1.0 link 121600 <![CDATA[If You Really Want to Understand What This Race is About, Look at the Two Candidates' Fathers]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/if-you-really-want-to-und_b_121600.html The tinsel and tinny sound bites of the conventions pushes us to judge the presidential candidates on the most simple -- and simple-minded -- video-version of their biogs. But amidst all this, we seem to be ignoring the best guide we have to John McCain and Barack Obama's hearts. Both men have written strange, searching books about their fathers. It is in their pages that we can find the clearest -- and most haunting -- clues to their potential presidencies.

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