"There is a heightened awareness of the need for further and deeper homework on candidates and how they are going to win," said one major GOP fundraiser who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks.
One of the chief concerns of the pragmatists is that Mr. McCain is susceptible to influence from the neoconservatives because he is not as fully formed on foreign policy as his campaign advisers say he is, and that while he speaks authoritatively, he operates too much off the cuff and has not done the deeper homework required of a presidential candidate.
Although Mr. Powell had some warm words for Mr. McCain on Sunday — he said that he admired him and that he would make a good president — friends say that Mr. Powell has felt cut out by Mr. McCain's campaign foreign policy circle and concerned that Mr. McCain speaks too off the cuff about national security and has not taken the time to do the deeper homework required of a presidential candidate.
They claim that McCain "is not as fully formed on his foreign policy as his campaign advisers say he is, and that while he speaks authoritatively, he operates too much off the cuff and has not done the deeper homework required of a presidential candidate".
We don't talk for more than a couple of minutes at a time, and about nothing deeper than homework or superficial problems.
WOODS: Do the vast majority of the press just simply get a failing grade, because they don't do their homework, dig deep into the intricacies, read page 525 of the proposed bill that contains the loophole that the insurance companies lawyers will find, so they can continue to rake in their bloody money?
We appear to have gone off the deep end in the matter of homework ("Challenging Homework Stumps Parents, Too," front page, Nov. 7).
Along with the creation of the Feinberg fund, which he said showed a commitment to stay the course, he added, "We've done more homework — they are a very deep, deep company".
In a nutshell, it is extremely hard to get into this high school in the first instance, with some students preparing for years for the entry exam; then, the rigors of the experience are extraordinary as students often work on homework and projects deep into the night.
