John McCain

By lpratapas Sen. John McCain announced Monday that he would not vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor. WASHINGTON (CNN) — After days of indecision, Sen. John McCain announced Monday he will oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The Arizona Republican said Sotomayor trie...

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...

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...

By AZ BlueMeanie David Neiwert at crooksandliars.com posted this report on our recently declared Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, Minuteman Chris Simcox's past will haunt his GOP primary bid against McCain: The latest step in Minutemen cofounder Chris Simcox's extreme makeover is n...

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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:

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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.

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By Scott Whitlock Countdown With Keith Olbermann" guest host David Shuster slipped an incredible claim into Monday's program when he highlighted "independent reports" showing that presidential candidate Barack Obama received harsher media scrutiny than did John McCain during the 2008 election.

International Herald Tribune - By John M. Broder - Mar. 23 (News Report) - As a physicist, Steven Chu has seen atoms suspended in a powerful laser beam and DNA stretched out in a vacuum chamber. But in his new job as energy secretary, Dr. Chu is observing phenomena he never saw in the science labor...

By The Huffington Post News Team Anyway: everything was someone else's fault. If it wasn't the press it was the campaign, and if it wasn't the campaign, it was the stock markets. I guess it wouldn't be SOBER to suggest that at a time when the McCain campaign was in need of some coherent decision making and messaging, Michael G...

By Pareene George W. Bush's reign as official boogie-man of the left died this year, two years after his presidency. While it was part of Barack Obama's winning strategy to paint John McCain as Bush redux, he was much more successful in painting John McCain as John McCain, an erratic old coot who didn't...

David Freddoso of National Review also looks at the meaning of the Democrats’ money advantage this year. “Conservative donors’ disillusionment and liberal donors’ enthusiasm helped Democrats win close races and compete in regions where their left-wing message is usually greeted co...

By Eli Tate I simply don’t think John McCain is an exceptional leader.  An experienced fighter, yes, but leadership is much more complex and vital to me.  Sure he can surround himself with smart people, but look where that got us with Bush ’42.  Good leaders have integrity and demand it in their people—p...

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...

Insider View: Despite estimates of six-hour wait times, early voters stuck it out. Governor Charles Crist extended early voting hours last week, a move that some claim doesn't benefit the Republicans. Meanwhile, rather than wait until the last moment, local Democrats filed a lawsuit ag...

By Liza Porteus Viana Filed under: Bush Administration, Democrats, Republicans, Barack Obama, John McCain, Dick Cheney, 2008 PresidentWith just about 30 hours left until this presidential election is all over, I'm searching for some positive John McCain news - not because I'm necessarily supporting hi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Nate Silver) Nevertheless, the change in the partisan ID of their sample does cut against the notion that the race is tightening. What we are ultimately interested in is whether the same voters are starting to look at the race in a different way -- making up their minds, or changing their minds. In this cas...

Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch? “Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are,” Sarah Palin told the Chicago Tribune Thursday.

Barack Obama United States Senator Dear Senator Obama: John McCain United States Senate The Honorable John McCain United States Senate 241 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Barack Obama United States Senator 

Despite McCain’s desperation tour, it is becoming abundantly clear that the wheels have already come off the “straight talk express,” as the New York Times Magazine reports on the eternal shuffling of McCain’s narrative in an effort to change the dynamic of the campaign, and as reports...

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.

By Mark Kilmer Bayh argued that McCain had to embrace the Bush policies to win the Republican nomination. Kyl said that no George Bush policy caused the current crisis, as it was caused by Congress and the Democrats' treatments of Fannie and Freddie.

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...

JARRETT: Jehmu, let me begin with you. Even The New York Times, which today, of course, endorsed Barack Obama, several days ago published a chart and in it, it showed that the average plumber -- not somebody making $250 and above -- but the average plumber would pay less in taxes under John Mc...

By Jim Newell One does not have to be a psychoanalyst to reckon that McCain was smitten. By no means am I suggesting anything untoward between McCain and his running mate. Palin is a governor, after all. She does have an executive resume, if a thin one. And she’s a natural politician who connects with people.

By dweigel@reason.com (David Weigel) Erika Franzi, who described herself as conservative and preferring Senator John McCain over Mr. Obama, used the name “Della Ware” and entered an address of 12345 No Way in Far Far Away, DE 78954. Under employer, she listed: Americans Against Obama; for occupation, she typed in: Founder.

By Andrew Romano Senator John McCain woke Thursday morning to what has become a fairly common greeting in these tough last weeks of his campaign. A raft of polls showing him well behind. Early post-mortems on his candidacy. Even Republicans speaking of him in the past tense. But is it really over? As Mr. McCain e...

By mark oppenheim Barack Obama could not have asked for a better choice from John McCain then Sarah Palin.  Sarah claims that she has more experience than Barak Obama.  Maybe she does, however she sticks her foot in her mouth whenever she talks, attacks Obama on the wrong issues, and makes a political fool out...

By pocket99s@gmail.com (Sean Quinn) Real' Virginia, what does that mean?" asked Kaine, noting that Northern Virginia was home to John McCain's national headquarters, as well as where John McCain lives when he works in DC. Falls Church, Obama office, moments before:

By RJ Eskow Obama has built a massive lead over McCain in the last several weeks. But while McCain now lags in all age groups, he retains his... Dear Florida (and anywhere else Americans over 65 live in large, swing-state-vote numbers): 4. McCain/Palin Could Undermine Retiree Benefits

Senator McCain’s statements concerning teacher certification during the final presidential debate prompted an interesting post on Open Salon by Molly Gum, Who Needs Qualified Teachers When We Have Military Troops?  The post itself and the comments that immediately followed promp...

By Jeff Chang With watery red eyes that had him looking as if he'd just smoked a bowl of medical marijuana, Senator John McCain might have made me... Here's why. We're now past silly season and into shitty season. Falling down in the polls like Michael Douglas, Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin hav...

By Ankeeta from Howard Beach, NY What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

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.

By Brent Baker JEFF GREENFIELD: If Senator McCain does bring up Bill Ayers tonight would that contradict a promise he made just a few days ago? JOHN McCAIN, ON SUNDAY: I respect Senator Obama. We will conduct a respectful race and make sure that everybody else does, too. And that's important. But there are s...

By Matthew Balan During Wednesday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez tried to portray that there were many so-called conservatives who were "defecting," in his words, from John McCain over his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. His list of conservatives, which he re...

By Igor Yesterday, during an NPR segment about the impact of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) proposal to allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, Michael Cannon of CATO and Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) both repeated the false claim that benefit mandates significantly increase the c...

By Joseph Romm Did you know that John McCain has proposed a real cut in spending on breast cancer research children's health student loans early childhood education funding... The point is that John McCain's new economic proposals are as bad for Americans as his old economic proposals.

By The Huffington Post News Team Meanwhile, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both railed against the specifics of McCain's proposal, which had been compared to past initiatives from both Democratic figures. Calling the comparison "offensive," a Clinton staffer echoed the National Review by saying McCain's pl...

By Scott Whitlock CHRIS CUOMO: Now, Robin, both vice presidential candidates were out on the campaign trail over the weekend. Governor Palin spoke to a crowd in southeastern Ohio. And Senator Biden was joined by both Bill and Hillary Clinton in his home state of Pennsylvania. Now, our Kate Snow, GMA weekend a...

By Nicholas Thompson What do Barack Obama and John McCain say, and what have they done, about policies that matter to Wired? Here are descriptions and analysis on five issues: BroadbandH1B issuesInvestment in green techNet neutralitySpectrum Grades: McCain: B+ Obama: C Grades: McCain: B Obama: B

By DaveG This year could have changed things. The G.O.P. had three urbane presidential candidates. But the class-warfare clichés took control. Rudy Giuliani disdained cosmopolitans at the Republican convention. Mitt Romney gave a speech attacking “eastern elites.” (Mitt Romney!) John McCain pick...

By Andrew Romano You'll notice that McCain never really bothered to say what we don't know about Obama and Ayers--let alone why what we don't know matters, or what Obama isn't telling the truth about. The point, it seems, is to create a false air of mystery around the Obama-Ayers relationship--and encoura...

By Mark Noonan Reform, spending reductions, smaller government…was someone out there wondering where the Reaganism had got to? It might have been hidden a bit by campaign finance reform, but it was residing in the heart and mind of John McCain all this time, and now he proposes to give us another dose of...

By Winnie Mrs. Hagel to Endorse Obama Elizabeth Drew: How John McCain lost me Former Michigan Republican governor Milliken backs away from McCain Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party’s nominee. From the Washington Post, a round-up of conservative views on Palin:

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...

By Patty Conservative pundits and bloggers expressed outrage Wednesday over John McCain’s plan for the federal government to spend $300 billion to buy up troubled mortgages, announced during his debate with Barack Obama Tuesday night.

A question is asked about what sacrifices McCain or Obama are going to ask Americans to make. Did I hear McCain make the case that Obama is for oil company giveaways and McCain against. We are truly living in an Orwellian world. McCain said MAYBE.

By Andrew Romano Average voters do not have anything approaching perfect information. They are probably not keenly aware of how McCain is different from the average Republican. I think they have a sense that he is - and in a vaguely anti-GOP year, that might be enough. However, this banking crisis means we ar...

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...

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