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Why Sarah Palin Scares Democrats
Original at race42008.com
• 7 hours ago
By Kristofer Lorelli Last week an esteemed former Democratic presidential nominee and sitting member of the U.S. Senate, took the latest juvenile potshot at Gov. Palin. After hearing that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had gone missing for several days to have a rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, Sen. Joh...
McCain And Palin Personally Approved Email Hunt For Leaks
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, Jul 2
By The Huffington Post News Editors John McCain and Sarah Palin both personally approved an intensive internal search of the emails of top campaign staffers in order to determine who had been leaking damaging information about Palin to reporters, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt just told me in an interview.
Mike's Blog Roundup
Original at Crooks and Liars
• Thu, Jul 2
By Mike Finnigan Jack & Jill Politics: New video from @WeekInBlackness - BET doesn't care about black people D-Day: The Maze of Food Policy NotionsCapital: American Milestone - 2.75 ton of fudge! James Wolcott: Sarah Palin taunts John McCain with her runaway caboose
"New Budget Estimate Of Public Plan Proves It Lowers Cost And Covers More Americans"
Original at HOWIEINSEATTLE
• Thu, Jul 2
By howmartin@msn.com (Howard Martin) John McCain: “[The CBO estimate] should be a wake up call for all of us to scrap the current bill and start over in a true bipartisan fashion.” John Boehner: “[T]he public option would cost over $1 trillion, and would cause 23 million Americans to lose their private health care coverage.”
"What this is about is a personal issue that happened late in the campaign relating to a close, personal friend of Bill Kristol"
Original at Reason Online
• Thu, Jul 2
By matt.welch@reason.com (Matt Welch) In case you needed any fresh reminders of why the gang at The Weekly Standard should never be within drop-kicking distance of the Oval Office, this Politico article about the Palin Wars within the McCain campaign last fall should do the trick. If Sarah Palin emerges as a 2012 front-runner f...
McCain and Feingold Sitting in a Tree, C-h-o-k-i-n-g
Original at Reason Online
• Wed, Jul 1
By matt.welch@reason.com (Matt Welch) Even as the Supreme Court signals a readiness to roll back still further the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's restrictions on political speech, the law's famous backers, Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold, are threatening to take their ball and go home if President Obama doesn't stack...
Does John McCain Feel Guilty for Choosing Sarah Palin?
Original at U.S. News & World Report
• Wed, Jul 1
If he's not, some of his advisers sure are.
Can we finally draw the curtain on Sarah Palin's mainstream GOP career? If only ...
Original at Crooks and Liars
• Tue, Jun 30
By David Neiwert Both Mark McKinnon and Nicolle Wallace, recently the McCain-Palin campaign's media gurus, were both on MSNBC this morning to talk ostensibly about serious subjects but eventually came around to the matter of Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin, in which they both figure pro...
McCain Staff: Vanity Fair Article Is “Completely False”Original at race42008.com
• Tue, Jun 30
By Kristofer Lorelli David Welch, deputy research director for the McCain-Palin ticket, said he was “shocked to read the Vanity Fair article about Governor Palin and the allegations made against her by former staffers” and complained “significant parts of the story are based on half truths and gossip from...
McCain: House Is "Almost Under Autocracy" With Speaker Pelosi
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Jun 26
By The Huffington Post News Editors During an appearance on a local radio station in Phoenix, AZ this morning, a caller asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) when Republican leaders were going to emerge in Congress to "wake the American people up" to the "cap-and-tax" bill. "Why can't we get the House members and the Senate members to...
Opinion: CD-ROM Converter Service Center HSI Doubles As The GOP’s Favorite ‘Academic Think Tank’Original at Wonk Room
• Thu, Jun 25
By Lee Fang Indeed, the McCain campaign paid $50,000 to HSI, the same firm that wrote their health plan, to produce “independent” comparisons between the McCain health plan versus Obama’s. Trying to conceal the payment, the McCain campaign reported the $50,000 as “legal consulting.” Strangely en...
McCain calls Iran vote result 'corrupt'
Original at CNN Political Ticker
• Mon, Jun 15
By js609163 Sen. John McCain told CNN that the results of Iran's recent elections are 'very disappointing…but not astonishing.' (CNN) – Arizona Sen. John McCain responded sharply Monday to the disputed election result in Iran showing victory for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling the...
McCain Reminds U.S. Of Bullet It Dodged In NovemberOriginal at Wonk Room
• Mon, Jun 15
By M. Duss We are back with Senator John McCain. Of course Republican from Arizona and former presidential candidate. By the way, Senator Lieberman has a proposal that we put sanctions on countries that sell gasoline to Iran. MCCAIN: Maybe we ought to think about passing that legislation.
John McCain: 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Not A "Civil Rights Issue"
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Jun 12
By The Huffington Post News Team Yesterday afternoon, Air America White House Correspondent (and friend to Eat The Press ) Ana Marie Cox interviewed Arizona Senator John McCain for her forthcoming... Yesterday afternoon, Air America White House Correspondent (and friend to Eat The Press ) Ana Marie Cox interviewed Ari...
Podcast: Cafferty: Listen to Palin or Gingrich? 'Or Just Stick Needles in Your Eyes?'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Jun 9
By Brent Baker But Palin, along with her husband, got big cheers from the audience when they were introduced on stage at this fundraiser last night; and their table was the only one in the ballroom with a crowd around it. Several Republicans thanked Sarah Palin for showing up. Senator John McCain said it wa...
Palin Needs To Deliver A Game Changing Debate Performance
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, Jun 4
By The Huffington Post News Team lt;p>In the next few days, there's going to be an awful lot of wrangling over what the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/vice-presidential-debate_n_129907.html">expectations</a> ought to be for Sarah Palin in Thursday's vice presidential deb...
Opinion: The Triumph of the Independents Confirmed
Original at Liberal Values
• Thu, May 21
By Ron Chusid Independents remain supportive of Obama and the Democratic Party. I believe this is partially out of a realization that increased government economic action is necessary at the moment and a belief that this is temporary. While the Democratic Party in recent years has been becoming more f...
Opinion: Minuteman Chris Simcox's past will haunt his GOP primary bid against McCain
Original at Orcinus
• Sun, Apr 26
By David Neiwert(noreply@blogger.com) The latest step in Minutemen cofounder Chris Simcox's extreme makeover is now up for electoral review: Simcox is challenging John McCain in the Arizona 2010 GOP primary. A piece I wrote for The American Prospect last October exposed these dealings in even greater detail:
Opinion: Minuteman Chris Simcox's past will haunt his GOP primary bid against McCain
Original at Crooks and Liars
• Thu, Apr 23
By David Neiwert You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! DOWNLOAD (209) PLAY (1209) The latest step in Minutemen cofounder Chris Simcox's extreme makeover is now up for electoral review: Simcox is challenging John McCain in the Arizona 2010 GOP primary.
Earmark this! They ain't gonna end, as Obama (and McCain) well knowOriginal at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Wed, Mar 11
By Andrew Malcolm So, you see, the new administration isn't really responsible for a Congress that should have passed this spending measure back in September pre-Katie Couric when Gov. Sarah Palin was all fresh, clean and exciting and a certain Illinois Democratic senator and a certain Delaware Democra...
Meghan McCain Is Confused by Ann Coulter [Politics]
Original at Gawker
• Mon, Mar 9
By Pareene Coulter could be the poster woman for the most extreme side of the Republican Party. And in some ways I could be the poster woman for the opposite. Yes, well, everyone who thought about it for ten minutes figured this out 7 years ago, but for those who haven't, Ann actually answered some questi...
John McQuaid: The GOP News Cycle Strategy
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Feb 13
By John McQuaid So: the GOP "won" yesterday with Judd Gregg's pulling the plug on his own nomination. It sort of "wins" when Republican members of Congress rebuff Obama's overtures and give him no votes on key bills, which spark the usual raft of stories about how Obama has failed in his quest for Republica...
John V. Santore: Obama Isn't Who I Didn't Think He Was. But He Might Be.
Original at Huffington Post
• Sun, Feb 8
By John V. Santore Which makes me feel like my real motivation was an attempt to hide my own embarrassment about the decision to pick Daschle to being with. I tell friends these days that I'll never be angry at Obama, only disappointed. The difference between him and Bush is that Bush never even knew enough to ma...
Taking Aim At Goldberg's Slobbering Love Affair
Original at mediabistro.com
• Tue, Jan 27
gt;That the book "offers an example of the media's purported 'pro-Obama bias' that collapses on minimal review. In Chapter One, Goldberg cites as evidence the fact that The Early Show ran a segment called 'Five Things You Should Know About Barack Obama' that featured trivia about Obama. B...
Joe The Latest Desperate Attempt at Remaining Relevant [Journalismism]
Original at Gawker
• Wed, Jan 7
By Pareene Joe the Plumber, whose name is not Joe and who is not a plumber, is a dumb Clinton-era parody of an "angry white man" convinced of various falsehoods and given to repeating them loudly to whoever will listen. For a time, last October, television cameras were the ones listening, and Joe happi...
Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Fri, Dec 26
By Brent Baker John McCain: Hard to forgive the nasty end-game, and Palin pick was iresponsible. But classy concession speech and Letterman gig. “Will”? Sarah Palin: She seemed like McCain's silver bullet...until she opened her mouth. A 2012 contender if she starts boning up on issues. Now.
Podcast: Bad Economics 101 From Radio Host Ed Schultz and Gov. Rendell
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Nov 6
By Jack Coleman Heading into the campaign's final stretch, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said to lefty radio host Ed Schultz that John McCain and Sarah Palin spent so much time in the Keystone State, "I'm thinking of charging them state income tax they've been here so often."
Opinion: Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 11-02-08: In Which the Guesswork Pageant Flutters to an End
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Nov 3
By Todd Gitlin Presumably out there in the land there's also "a lot of concern" about economic collapse and the fallout from eight years of divided rule when the party in charge of the presidency is Republican. It would be interesting to know whether Brokaw was equally concerned about "one party rule" wh...
Recipe: Don’t think much of McCain, but these ribs sound good
Original at leisureguy (WordPress)
• Mon, Nov 3
By LeisureGuy John McCain’s Rib Recipe–in the CrockPot. Of course, I’ll used crushed garlic, not garlic powder. Fresh is better, right? John McCain’s Rib Recipe–in the CrockPot. Of course, I’ll used crushed garlic, not garlic powder. Fresh is better, right?
Podcast: Maddow Shields Listeners From Allegedly Odious McCain AdOriginal at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Oct 28
By Jack Coleman Seeing how Maddow is so stricken by "intellectual dishonesty," other potential examples come to mind. Her claim that Sen. Joe Lieberman said "exactly the same thing," for example. What Lieberman said was undeniably along the same lines as Biden, but with an important difference. Lieber...
Opinion: John McCain on "Meet the Press."
Original at Althouse
• Mon, Oct 27
By Ann Althouse(annalthouse@mac.com) SEN. McCAIN: Sure. Sure. MR. BROKAW: ...your comments about taxing wealthy Americans? SEN. McCAIN: Sure. SEN. McCAIN: Mm-hmm. MR. BROKAW: ...and this is what you had to say about wealthy Americans and taxes at that time. MR. BROKAW: And that's when Republicans called it socialism under FDR.
Opinion: Adrienne Birecree: Conservative Tax Policy Is Corporate Socialism
Original at Huffington Post
• Sat, Oct 25
By Adrienne Birecree John McCain decries middle class tax cuts as "socialism" because they "spread the wealth around." What are tax cuts for corporate America and the wealthy then? There indeed has been an increase in "socialism" in the U.S. but a smokescreen of conservative ideological rhetoric has hidden it...
John McCain shows Obama how to use a plumbing wrench. http://tinyurl.com/5ealr8
Original at Megatokyo News
• Thu, Oct 16
Opinion: The Third and Final Round. . .McCain and Obama Tie but McCain Needed More -- McCain's Eye Rolls and "Joe the Plumber" will be Remembered as Highlights
Original at The Washington Note
• Wed, Oct 15
By Steve Clemons This is by far the best start I have seen for Barack Obama. McCain: "Senator McCain. . .I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. . ." It's getting more tense. McCain and Obama tied -- but that wasn't good enough for John McCain.
Podcast: McCain campaign uses flooding as political tool in robocall and mailer
Original at Iowa Independent
• Mon, Oct 13
By Lynda Waddington “I’m calling Iowans on behalf of John McCain, Sarah Palin and the RNC because Congressional Democrats’ response to the June floods was not only embarrassing, it was negligent,” the male voice said on the recorded call. “While John McCain took time from campaigning to survey the damage ca...
Opinion: Stephen A. LeMay: McCain-Palin: No Plan to Address Worn, Outdated Transportation Infrastructure
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Oct 10
By Stephen A. LeMay Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that it is critically important for the United States to rebuild its national transportation infrastructure -- its highways, bridges, roads, ports, air, and train systems -- to strengthen user safety, bolster our long-term competitiveness and ens...
Patch: Newsfeed Update: 10.07.08
Original at mediabistro.com
• Tue, Oct 7
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. McCain Looking to Patch Things Up With Letterman (NYP) David Letterman and Sen. John McCain are talking about making up. McCain representatives and Late Show executives are negotiating an appearance on Letterman's show s...
Podcast: Whoopi Asks McCain: 'Do I Have To Be Worried About Becoming a Slave Again?'Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Sep 11
By Justin McCarthy McCAIN: My interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is that the United States Supreme Court enforces the Constitution of the United States and does not legislate nor invent areas that are responsibilities, according to the Constitution, of the legislative branch.
Podcast: Joy Behar: 'Press in Love with [Sarah Palin]'Original at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Sep 10
By Justin McCarthy From the day John McCain announced her as running mate, the press has stirred up nearly every negative story it can find about Governor Palin some just internet rumors. Some attacked her family life wondering aloud if she can run a country and a family at the same time. Some ran false stories a...
Podcast: What Kind Of Vetting Process Did McCain Use?
Original at Crooks and Liars
• Sat, Aug 30
By Nicole Belle On MSNBC this evening Andrea Mitchell reported on how minimal John McCain’s interactions with his choice for vice president, Sarah Palin, have been. According to Mitchell, McCain only met Palin once. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather)
Patch: Economy...Obama meets...McCain waits...Russert replacement ...
Original at KXMC
• Tue, Jul 29
AP) John McCain could get results today from the biopsy done on a patch of skin removed from his face during a recent checkup. ... Housing prices plummet...Improvements in Knoxville...McCain awaits ... Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck Mixed economic news...Obama sets meetings...US troop deaths down ... Reit...
Opinion: Joseph A. Palermo: Why John McCain's "Surge" Success Story Is A Lie
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jul 22
By Joseph A. Palermo It really makes the Iraq debate easy for John McCain when he throws around words like "win" and "victory" and "prevail" and "success" without really defining what they mean. A short time ago he was calling for American troops to remain in Iraq forever and that Obama was "naive" for suggesti...
Podcast: AUDIO OF CONFERENCE CALL REMARKS: BECERRA (D-CA) AND MEDINA RESPOND MCCAIN'S SPEECH AT NCLR
Original at Democratic National Committee: Blog
• Mon, Jul 14
Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Eliseo Medina held a conference call today to respond to John McCain's speech at NCLR, and call for straight talk from the GOP candidate on his promise of a third Bush term and contradictions on immigration reform.
Podcast: The Reviews Are In: John McCain's Week on the Economy: Disaster
Original at Democratic National Committee: Blog
• Fri, Jul 11
McCain: Social Security funding now a disgrace. "The system for funding Social Security is ''a disgrace' because it forces young workers to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said this week, wading into...
Podcast: AUDIO OF CONFERENCE CALL: Linda Chavez-Thompson and Mark Levinson discuss how John McCain, Charlie Black and Colombia Free Trade Agreement are a Bad Deal for America
Original at Democratic National Committee: Blog
• Wed, Jul 2
Colombia leads the world, there are more trade unionists killed in Colombia than the rest of the world combined. Now presumably that earns them the privilege of a trade agreement with the United States, but we find it an outrage, American workers find it an outrage...the fact that McCain's...no...
Opinion: Remember Obama v. McCain
Original at First Read
• Tue, Jan 8
By Domenico Montanaro Dear John: Barack Obama United States Senator February 6, 2006 The Honorable Barack Obama United States Senate SH-713 Washington, DC 20510 John McCain United States Senate February 6, 2006 Dear John: Barack Obama United States Senator
Podcast: RedState.com falsely claimed McCain "confirmed" on Hannity that he was heckled by CNN's Ware
Original at Media Matters for America
• Wed, Apr 11
On The Sean Hannity Show, Hannity questioned McCain about allegedly being "heckled by the CNN reporter Michael Ware." McCain replied: HANNITY: What happened at this press conference? You were in Baghdad you were with Senator Graham.
Patch: McCain to make amends with Dobson
Original at Seattle Post Intelligencer
• Tue, Jan 16
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances.
Patch: McCain Hopes to Make Amends With Dobson
Original at African News Dimension
• Tue, Jan 16
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances....
Patch: McCain hopes to make amends with Dobson
Original at Yahoo! News
• Tue, Jan 16
AP - Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances.