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"When nine Republican presidential candidates presented their cases to Iowa activists at a Des Moines dinner this month, only Arizona Sen. John McCain went out of his way to embrace President Bush. "There's only one commander in chief of the United States, and that's George W. Bush," he told the crowd. "I support him, and I believe in him."
But when McCain formally kicked off his campaign last week, there seemed to be a lot he did not believe in, such as Bush's handling of the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and federal spending. McCain called for Bush's attorney general to resign. "That's not good enough for America," he said after reciting a litany of Bush failures. "And when I'm president, it won't be good enough for me."
The swing between reverence and repudiation over a 10-day period mirrors the arc of the relationship between Bush and McCain, two dominant figures in their party who have danced along the fine line separating alliance and rivalry for eight years. At times, Bush has had no stronger supporter than McCain; at others, no harsher critic. For McCain, the challenge of the next year will be figuring out how to reconcile those instincts. And for Bush, the challenge will be living with them.
The senator's tone on his announcement tour suggested that his strategy of moving closer to Bush in recent years has reached its limits. But whether he likes it or not, McCain is also the candidate most associated in the public mind with the president's war in Iraq, making him an unlikely would-be successor to the man who beat him for the Republican nomination in 2000..."
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