MCCAIN'S WIT A HIT WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 28, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Rolling down the highway aboard his bus, the ``Straight Talk Express,'' Sen. John McCain is on his way to yet another town meeting, 104 so far in New Hampshire and counting.

McCain sits with his wife, Cindy, telling jokes about his ``second or third grade'' proficiency at the computer and arguing that George W. Bush's tax cut plan ``doesn't provide one penny'' to pay down the national debt. He makes a guttural exploding bomb sound when asked to describe reaction last summer when House Republicans took a $793 billion tax cut proposal to the American public.

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