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* Obama’s 2008 opponent may be key to White House success

* Draws praise from Democrats, fire from right-wingers

* 76-year-old maverick “back in his groove”

 Republican U.S. Senator John McCain accidentally walked in on President Barack Obama this week when he was addressing a Democrats-only meeting of senators.

“Come on in, John,” Obama shouted.

A red-faced McCain turned around and headed out to chuckles and then applause from the Democrats. “My mistake,” McCain said.

To the far-right in the Republican Party, there is no mistake about it. In a party that generally brooks no compromise with Obama, McCain is the compromiser-in-chief. He’s negotiating with the White House.

And he’s in-their-face about it, having recently described as “wacko birds” two of the right’s most uncompromising heroes, Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.

A recent article in the conservative National Review described McCain as “Obama’s…

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