John McCain

By Johann Hari The truth is more accessible then ever. At the height of the Vietnam War, only a few obscure bookshops stocked the critical writings of Noam Chomsky. Today, every voter can read his deconstruction of the Afghan and Iraq wars for free - although it still has to contend with the endless machine...

By Dawn Teo Despite his disreputable past, Hayworth is a popular conservative leader in Arizona today, especially among Tea Partiers. Hayworth has been a featured speaker at Tea Party events across the state including the Tax Day Tea Party in Phoenix and October's Tea Party in Tucson. He has also pro...

By The Huffington Post News Team At the same time, this highlights a lot of lingering issues about the cost-effectiveness of our approach. Why are we spending a multiple of Afghanistan's total GDP on fighting a war in the country? Couldn't more be done, for cheaper, with cash for bribes and development? How is it that it do...

By Eric Margolis Obama, with his eye on the Afghan War's growing unpopularity among Americans, confusingly promised some of the 105,000 US garrison will begin withdrawing in 2011. But Obama's aides almost immediately began backtracking on this pledge, which made no military sense at all. Senator John M...

By The Huffington Post News Editors McChrystal was effectively barred from testifying earlier during Obama's long deliberation, with Gates and others in the administration saying the general should only speak after Obama had made his choice. That angered several Republicans, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona, but...

By Robert J. Elisberg They at weren't mad when George Bush and the Republican Party ignored the city of New Orleans being wiped off the map. So, you just KNOW how utterly, hot-eyed furious Republican must be when they express their outrage at national healthcare!!

By Frankie Sturm When Sen. Obama ran for the presidency in 2008, however, critics insisted that his pretty words were not enough. The charge resonated most deeply on the subject of national security and the question of whether the young senator could handle the awesome responsibilities of commander in ch...

By J. Brian Atwood If he decided that he wanted to "win" in military terms, as John McCain is urging, he would have had to find some 350,000 to 500,000 troops to cover the population and topography of Afghanistan. Not only were those troops not available, adopting this approach could have inflamed the entire...

By Richard Kirsch A sense of irony is clearly a luxury that politicians can't afford. So was the irony totally lost on Republican senators that after months and... A sense of irony is clearly a luxury that politicians can't afford. So was the irony totally lost on Republican senators that after months and months...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., made a somewhat similar, if less specific, remark Sunday about bin Laden's movements. He told NBC's "Meet the Press" that knowledgeable people have told him that bin Laden "moves back and forth." Associated Press writer Kathy Gannon in Kabul contributed to this r...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Asked about his pick for vice presidential candidate during an appearance on "Meet the Press," the Arizona Republican sounded more like an adoring father than a man frightened by his own creation. Oh sure, yeah," said McCain. "I enjoyed her book." More on John McCain

By The Huffington Post News Editors John McCain Is mad. During Senate debate Saturday over cuts to Medicare home health care spending, Sen. McCain got very worked up. On at least two separate occasions, Sen. Max Baucus objected to McCain. The Senator from Arizona did not take it too well and was visibly upset. For his part, Baucus s...

By The Huffington Post News Team John McCain Is mad. During Senate debate Saturday over cuts to Medicare home health care spending, Sen. McCain got very worked up. On at least... John McCain Is mad. During Senate debate Saturday over cuts to Medicare home health care spending, Sen. McCain got very worked up. On at least two separat...

By The Huffington Post News Team Dorgan was not part of those talks, however, and noted that Obama, as a senator, had supported his measure, as had Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel when he was in the House. The White House, he said, had not attempted to discourage him from going forward.

By William K. Black Gray took on, simultaneously, the Reagan administration (particularly Don Regan and the OMB), a majority of the members of the House (who co-sponsored a resolution calling on us not to reregulate), House Speaker Jim Wright, five U.S. Senators (the "Keating Five"), the S&L trade ass...

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By The Huffington Post News Team Here's Senator John McCain, advancing the Obama as surrender monkey line: Dates for withdrawal are dictated by conditions," Mr. McCain told reporters on Capitol Hill. "The way that you win wars is to break the enemy's will, not to announce dates that you are leaving."

By The Huffington Post News Team Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced the first Republican amendment to the Senate's version of health care reform on Monday. In doing so, he placed himself at odds with a position he championed both a decade ago and during last year's presidential campaign.

By Dawn Teo Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a polarized electorate has him facing constant criticism from both the left and the right. PHOENIX, AZ -- Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in troub...

By Greg Mitchell Yes, Barack Obama ended up beating John McCain rather easily one year ago, but given Stephen Colbert didn't stay in the race for the White... Yes, Barack Obama ended up beating John McCain rather easily one year ago, but given Stephen Colbert didn't stay in the race for the White House or Obama...

By The Huffington Post News Team SCHATZ: I think one of the things that Senator McCain has been very active on in the last few years on telecom policy is cable and a la carte pricing. He's been very vocal in the thought that Americans spend way too much to pay for cable and he's talking a lot about Congress passing laws to requir...

By Max Blumenthal During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senator John McCain avidly sought Hagee's endorsement, appearing by the pastor's side during a widely publicized press conference to announce it. McCain was intent on winning a seal of approval from a figure of the Christian right, especially si...

By Sam Gustin Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, introduced a bill late Thursday that would short-circuit the FCC's ability to enforce its proposed open Internet rules. In... Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, introduced a bill late Thursday that would short-circuit the FCC's ability to e...

By Matthew Alexander I have been contacted by World War II veterans who were outraged that the former administration so easily dismissed the American principles that millions of veterans gave their lives to defend. They pointed out what I have said all along -- we cannot become our enemy in trying to defeat him.

By Greg Mitchell The preposterous media coverage of the (few) unhappy Hillaryites at the Dem convention, which was aimed not at helping Obama but maintaining interest in the affair and the coming campaign, inspired McCain to select as his running mate someone who would virtually destroy his campaign.

By The Huffington Post News Editors The New York Post's Maxine Shen reports that McCain will guest host the show for three days, starting September 9 (the Wednesday after Labor Day). While the Post describes McCain as "the divisive daughter of Sen. John McCain," it's Hill that may prove to be a more controversial choice of co-...

By Seth Pendleton I know there must be one Republican out there with the courage to follow John McCain's example -- to take the microphone and turn away from the crazy person. During the presidential campaign, there were many things about John McCain that were hard to take. He was angry, awkward, and wrapped a...

By The Huffington Post News Team Sen. John McCain said he was surprised but not "shocked" by the resignation of his former runningmate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On NBC's Meet the... Sen. John McCain said he was surprised but not "shocked" by the resignation of his former runningmate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On NBC's Meet the Pres...

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...

By The Huffington Post News Team Back in the rough and untamed ancient days of 2008, Senator John McCain used to trod this earth under a banner that read "Country First."... Back in the rough and untamed ancient days of 2008, Senator John McCain used to trod this earth under a banner that read "Country First." His good friend Lin...

By The Huffington Post News Team But he can also borrow a line from Barack Obama and point out that this campaign isn't about the personal fortunes of the candidates, this campaign is about the people they are running to represent. He can use that to explain why he isn't directly engaging Sarah Palin, why he's keeping the fo...

By Karen Dalton-Beninato First headline: "Why Does McCain Refuse to Get a Perm?" John McCain Still Spurning Perm: Affront to His Base?" V.P. Pick Palin: Pro Perm or Lock Blocker?" Beltway Beauticians Ponder: Is McCain Curl-Worthy?" And finally, More on GOP

By The Huffington Post News Team Obama joined Republican Sen. John McCain, his presidential campaign rival, and other congressional figures Wednesday to put his pen to an executive memorandum. The document essentially commits the administration to new marching orders for awarding such contracts, and Obama said tha...

By The Huffington Post News Team There are, of course, a variety of political difficulties involved in tightening up on defense procurements: thousands of jobs are tied to the spending, and it opens up a president to charges that he's underfunding the Pentagon. If Obama wants to tackle these issues now, it seems that McC...

By Paul Jenkins There is John McCain, the Republicans' failed presidential candidate, as incapable since the election as he was before. There is John Boehner, the party's leader... There is John McCain, the Republicans' failed presidential candidate, as incapable since the election as he was before. The...

By Vickie Karp Alexandra Pelosi: There was a piece in the Washington Post in which the reporter said that there is a crack in the cultural divide and Ted fell into it. Who is the leader of the evangelical movement now? Rick Warren took a lot of flack for even appearing with Obama last week. It's an interesting...

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 The Huffington Post News Team How about a bizarre contra-historical thought exercise: How would Palin have been treated if she'd ended up as Barack Obama's running mate? Palin says, "I think they would have loved me as a candidate ... we would have seen an absolutely different and a ... much prettier profile of Sarah Palin an...

By William Bradley In Barack Obama, the representative of an exotic multi-racial, multi-cultural future that repels and frightens many Americans even as it attracts more to a possible America. Barack Obama is all about potential, about what can be.

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...

By Brian Normoyle The campaign this week accused the LA Times of protecting Barack Obama because editors insist on honoring promises made to their sources. Late last month the venerable New York Times was in the cross hairs and, before that, campaign manager Rick Davis dubbed "salacious" the media's vett...

By Caryn James All these centuries later, the McCain-Palin campaign is demonizing language. Not just using it with that politics-as-usual slipperiness. In theory and practice, they are attacking the idea of clear, graceful language itself. John McCain accuses Barack Obama of "eloquence" as if it's s...

By Joseph Romm Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin. It's time to stop trying to... Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin.

By The Huffington Post News Team As Politico's Ben Smith reported on Tuesday, the McCain campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release video in its possession of a party attended by Barack Obama and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. "A major news organization is intentionally suppressing info...

By Todd Gitlin McCain strained, but his heart wasn't in it as he gamely repeated his clichés: "My friend." "I respect that." "The worst thing we can do is increase taxes." Sarah Palin "has more executive experience than Senator Biden and Senator Obama together." "I could not be more proud of her." McCain aban...

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...

By Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte The San Francisco Chronicle recently declared that John McCain and Barack Obama are "like peas in a pod" on a major issue. The newspaper was talking about their energy platforms. It's time to debunk this: there are real differences in priorities. Yes, both John McCain and Barack Obama agree...

By Max Bergmann In a sign of his poor judgment, McCain pushed for the U.S. to turn from Afghanistan to Iraq in 2001 and has consistently ignored and misjudged the situation in Afghanistan. McCain has put Afghanistan on the back-burner for 6 years, with disastrous results. Immediately following September 1...

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

By The Huffington Post News Team On the Republican side, Meghan McCain, the candidate's daughter, was meeting with voters in central Florida, and her father planned to visit later in the week. Dee Keener, 70, a retired secretary, said she voted for Obama _ even though she is a registered Republican.

By Thomas B. Edsall The more voters learn about Sarah Palin, the more wary they become. Once the focus of post-convention Republican euphoria, the Alaska Governor is now viewed as a serious liability to the McCain campaign. As it stands, Palin's polling numbers are daunting: with the unfolding economic cri...

By Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks McCain/Palin want us to forget about our real fears and focus on something unreal. McCain/Palin want us to be scared about what they want us to be scared about. They have an advantage, because the things they want us to be scared about are a lot more fun than the things we're really scared about...

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 The Huffington Post News Team WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama's victory margin in... WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Ba...

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 The Huffington Post News Team Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada," declared Byron York of the National Review. "Bush won everyone of those states except Pennsylvania. McCain has to do it all. And it is hard to do that by going on Letterman."

By Todd Gitlin Perhaps Balz missed this Michael Cooper piece in The New York Times of July 30, two and a half months ago: In recent days Senator John McCain has charged that Senator Barack Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign," tarred him as "Dr. No" on energy policy and run adve...

By Karin Tanabe David Brooks' recent New York Times Op-Ed column, The Class War Before Palin, hit home what I'm sure the McCain/Palin wardrobe team has been strategizing all along: There are more Joe Six-Packs in this country than there are champagne-swirling, National Review-reading Republicans. T...

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 The Huffington Post News Editors Next time Burton faces these questions, he should find a way to get cartoon cuckoos to circle his head. Of course, then they'll get asked WHEN DID BARACK OBAMA FORM THIS ALLIANCE WITH CARTOON CUCKOOS! WATCH.] All of them are correct! More on John McCain

By The Huffington Post News Team The second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain has concluded. Below is a roundup of some reactions to the debate: Andrew Sullivan: This... The second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain has concluded. Below is a roundup of some reactions to the deba...

By Jonathan Leigh Solomon Also, because the joke nominally compliments McCain for his forbearance in the face of untruths, it puts McCain in a no-win position - if he doesn't laugh along he'll look like a very peevish bad sport, but if he does laugh he will seem to have ceded Obama's point that he is not a maverick.

By Mike Bonifer The roots of modern improvisation were sown in the 1930s, on the South Side of Chicago, not far from the neighborhood where Barack Obama lives today. A Northwestern sociology professor, Neva Boyd, and her protégé, Viola Spolin, received a grant from the WPA to conduct theater workshop...

By John Lumea This much seems true: Unless and until this country's majority news culture --- now represented by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, the New York Times, and the Washington Post --- incorporates into its presidential campaign coverage this kind of foundational vetting, there should be a formal m...

By The Huffington Post News Team 8. The economy is front and center on Americans' minds. What would be your first fix in Washington to help fill up the nation's pocket book? 9. Joe Lieberman is helping you with foreign policy. Has he taught you anything you'd like to share?

By The Huffington Post News Team Could anyone dream up a one-two convention punch like this one, though? From Barack Obama's VP texting to the media camped out on Joe Biden's lawn to the Clinton drama (and yes -- catharsis) to the soaring spectacle of Invesco field, to the next-day bomb drop of John McCain's VP choice -- in...

By The Huffington Post News Team One strange Sarah Palin falsehood, which she acclaimed as truth yesterday and the campaign reaffirmed tonight in video was that she successfully auctioned a private jet she deemed unnecessary for the State of Alaska to maintain on eBay. UPDATE: John McCain, fibbing his way through an in...

By The Huffington Post News Editors ABC News' Deputy Political Director Karen Travers points out that despite all the "community organizer"-bashing at this convention, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., seems to like the notion, at least based on this passage: More on John McCain

By The Huffington Post News Editors Below are excerpts from Sarah Palin's Republican Convention speech, as prepared for delivery. Check back for the full text. On energy policies that the McCain-Palin administration will implement: On John McCain: More on Republican Convention

By Sidney Blumenthal The cancellation of the first night of the Republican National Convention marks the renewal of the rivalry between George W. Bush and John McCain. Since their bitter contest over the Republican nomination in 2000, they have taken years to make peace. But now McCain's last chance has collid...

By Wayne Besen Vladimir Putin has shrugged off the McCain crowd, essentially saying, "You and what army is going to stop us?" McCain must be acting like a galloping stallion because he knows of secret battalions that can be called on to defends the budding democracies in the Caucasus region.

By The Huffington Post News Editors In an interview with God-o-Meter on the day after his Saddleback Civil Forum with John McCain and Barack Obama, Rev. Rick Warren sounded pretty dubious about Barack Obama's and the Democrats' chances of making inroads among evangelicals. The full interview will run Monday on Beliefnet. H...

By Mark Joseph At the conclusion of the discussion, both men stood, came to the front of the table and Warren then welcomed Senator John McCain to the stage. The three men shook hands, hugged and posed for pictures before Obama left the stage and left McCain and Warren to themselves.

By Seth Grahame-Smith Paris Hilton just made John McCain her bitch. In less than two minutes, she accomplished not one -- but five things McCain himself has been unable to do in two years of campaigning. Love her or hate her, you've gotta hand it to Paris Hilton... She just made John McCain her bitch.

By The Huffington Post News Team But Republicans believe they have a winning issue. And on Friday, the Republican National Committee showed no sign of slowing in its push to label Obama as vacuous celebrity. But one can easily imagine the Democratic alternative. It would probably look something like this:

By Brad Miskell Dogtownink.com received this video of John McCain and Paris Hilton cavorting together, enjoying the benefits of the same Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that McCain has vowed to extend. On the same day presidential hopeful John McCain likened his opponent Barack Obama to celebutant Paris H...

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 Robert J. Elisberg A few style notes, so as not to give yourself away: Democrats refer to it as the "Democratic Party." They also leave out middle names - a good thing since in many circles "John Sidney McCain," is considered worse. Also, Democrats actually know that Sen. Obama was baptized, and "Obama" and "Osa...

By The Huffington Post News Team Debate over the impact of President Bush's troop "surge" has been at the center of exchanges this week between Obama and Republican presidential rival John McCain. Obama opposed the war and the surge from the start, while McCain supported both the invasion and the troop increase.

By The Huffington Post News Team How the hell did the publisher of the 'Top 20 Side-Boobs of All Time' get this scoop," you must be asking yourself, right now. (We were asking ourselves the same question.) And here's the answer: It's all part of the McCain campaign's plan to directly target college-age voters, in an attempt...