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McCain Starts Mapping Out New Role In Senate

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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PHOENIX — Before resting from the grueling presidential race, John McCain began discussing with senior aides what role he will play in the Senat...

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McCain's Week Off To Rocky Start

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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John McCain, who admitted on Sunday that "the economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two," is desperately trying to turn the political p...

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Obama's Edge Over McCain on Iraq

John Bruhns | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Senator Obama's plan to leave troop elements behind would have conditions: the Iraqis would have to politically reconcile and end sectarianism. McCain's is to continue on the current path.

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Meghan McCain's Infinite Playlist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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As many of you no doubt know, Senator John McCain's daughter Meghan has turned her father's campaign into something of a hobby to build a blog around,...

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McCain's Non-Support for Troops and Veterans: The Master List

Brandon Friedman | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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McCain has a very clear, long, and illustrious history of not supporting troops and veterans one bit.

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Friday's Debate: Commander-in-Chief Test for McCain & Obama

Rand Beers | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Obama must show that he can hold his own with the Senate veteran and that he is ready to be Commander-in-Chief. This debate matters more than most.

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The Obvious Confirmed: Sectarian Cleansing Major Reason for Drop in Violence in Iraq

Max Bergmann | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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When McCain declares "victory" in Iraq and states that the troop increase was the fundamental reason for the decline in violence, he proves that he has no idea what he is talking about.

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Republicans Undermine McCain, Back Obama On Iraqi Meeting

ABC News | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Earlier this week, the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., seized upon a column in the New York Post that described Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as h...

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Author Of Pro-McCain Book: McCain Has Lost Me

Politico | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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I have been a longtime admirer of John McCain. During the 2000 Republican presidential primaries I publicly defended McCain against the pro-Bush Repub...

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Explosive GQ Piece: McCain Tried To Upend al-Maliki Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

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An explosive piece in GQ Magazine alleges that in July 2007, John McCain urged President Bush to cut off its ties with the al-Maliki government in Ira...

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Bush Saw McCain As "Guy Who Would Carry On His Legacy In Iraq"

Huffington Post via GQ | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media

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GQ's Robert Draper has a long piece examining John McCain's Iraq War policy record and history in the upcoming October issue of the magazine. The arti...

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Time to Hold Bush's Feet to the Fire: Why the "Bush Doctrine" Flap Matters

Steve Kettmann | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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The notion that there's any serious doubt over the meaning of the Bush Doctrine is as credible as the notion that there is any serious doubt in the scientific community on the basic reality of global warming.

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McCain's Claims of "Change" in His Acceptance Speech Are New Standard for Chutzpah

Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics

"And let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd: change is coming." "And when we...

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GOP Divisive Tactics Undermine Our Efforts In Iraq

Tracy Saunders | Posted 09.04.2008 | Home

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My father is a disabled Vietnam veteran and every day my mother shows her patriotism by caring for my father. I was saddened that the McCain camp has chosen again to suggest that only Republicans are patriots.

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McCain vs Biden: Not All "Foreign Policy Experience" Is Created Equal

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics

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The past seven-plus years have shown us that "foreign policy experience," in and of itself, isn't all it's cracked up to be. For Exhibit A of this look no further than George Bush's most "experienced" foreign policy advisor: Dick Cheney. How's that working out?

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The Game Is Over--The Media and Rick Warren Can't Protect McCain Anymore

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics

When it comes to Barack Obama, the news media does its job with a vengeance. When Obama goes to Germany and draws a crowd of 200,000 they ask if he's ...

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"Quick Draw McCain" - Obama Campaign Press Conference Call 8.20 AUDIO

OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home

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WHO: Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Susan Rice and Richard Clarke WHAT: Press Conference Call to discuss comments made by Senator McCain, President B...

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Obama To McCain: Dignify Your Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

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There was a thread of stern if not defensive outrage in Barack Obama's address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday. The Illinois Democrat did n...

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McCain "Evil" Iraq Story Questionable

Politico | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

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A reader points out that John McCain's example of pure evil yesterday rests on a story asserted by Iraqi officials, but since cast into doubt. "Not l...

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McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Speaking to reporters about the situation in Georgia, Sen. John McCain denounced the aggressive posture of Russia by claiming that:"in the 21st centur...

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Obama Ad: McCain's War Policy An Economic Disaster

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign released a new attack ad on Wednesday that -- as the Senator has tried to do during the debate over the surge -- ties economic trou...

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Bush, Iraq, Energy, Osama: McCain/Obama Speech War

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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In presidential campaigns, words matter. With Barack Obama belittled as an empty-suit orator and John McCain stifled by rhetorical blunders, the influ...

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McConnell Challenger: McCain's Tactics Diminish The Presidency

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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Bruce Lunsford, one of the Democratic Party's would-be new Senators, derided John McCain last week for running ads that "diminished the role of the pr...

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Obama's Vacation Assignment: Prepping to Make the Case that McCain Isn't "Ready to Lead" on National Security

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

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Voters trust McCain on the war on terror; Obama needs to show them every day why they shouldn't.

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McCain: Obama Wants To "Forfeit" Iraq

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

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Thursday, McCain, who has contended that Obama is willing to lose in Iraq to win the election, said his rival would forfeit the war as part of an agen...

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