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Both John McCain and George W. Bush cleverly tapped into this fantasy – with its easy bonhomie and absence of wives and kids – to capture the hearts of the male journalists aboard their campaign buses, who could imagine themselves once again as tough, unfettered, and venturesome Kerouac figures.

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What is also important is to note that these figures only tell part of the story.

And if you look at the figures up there, it says that we have a third more mouths to feed, but we need an agricultural production increase of 70 percent.

So one-third of it reprises the stories of Biblical figures like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Mary, Jesus.

They're talking about their little action figures and their little achievements or merit badges, or whatever it is that they get.

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