Robert Draper

Sam Stein

Robert Draper Book: GOP Leadership Plotted To Make Obama A One-Termer The Night Of His Inauguration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ...

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Book: GOP Freshman Class Turned Into 'Monster' For Boehner

The Washington Post | Posted 04.22.2012

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Time and again last year, House Republican leaders faced a nearly in­trac­table opponent: the very freshman class that propelled them into the major...

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Michael Calderone

Snubbed Time Mag Writer Blasts Romney Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.02.2011

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NEW YORK -- Although Newt Gingrich may be surging lately, it's Mitt Romney who's stealing magazine covers this week. The former Massachusetts Governor...

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Winners Lose

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Koehler

The situation in Afghanistan is serious. We're getting "out-governed" by an enemy so ruthless it's bringing services to a desperate people ignored by ...

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Bible Quotes on "Worldwide Intelligence Updates?"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Bush proved that the blurring of the line that separates Church and State is not only unconstitutional, it is also wholly dysfunctional.

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Donald Rumsfeld Remixes Christian Hymns for George W. Bush

Patrick Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patrick Sauer

GQ broke the story that Rumsfeld used cover sheets juxtaposing Bible quotes and war imagery for the top-secret intelligence briefings, but did you know he also rewrote the words to Bush's favorite hymns?

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Rumsfeld was Bush's Rasputin

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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Allison Kilkenny

Rumsfeld is a smart man, who is familiar with American history, so it wouldn't be fair to accuse him of a senior moment when that whole separation of church and state thing flew out of his head.

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Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

GQ | Robert Draper | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the ...

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Bush: "I Do A Lot Of Crying In This Job"

GQ | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Draper, author of the George Bush biography "Dead Certain," has written an article for GQ on the interviews that shaped the book. Some highligh...

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In John Edwards' Country

Robert Draper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Draper

Six years ago, John Edwards was looking ahead, and with good reason. No Southern politician seemed to have a more glorious future.

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Robert Draper: McCain Campaign "Disdainful" Of Blogging, "Believes That's Not What Journalism Ought To Be"

WWD | Irin Carmon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anxiety about access has underpinned campaign coverage this cycle, be it John McCain's recently less cozy relationship with the press, the rollout of ...

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Obama Has What It Takes (and It's Not What You Think It Is)

Robert Draper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Draper

To me at least, Obama doesn't do that convincing an impression of a socialist. He's much more convincing as Machiavelli.

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McCain's Narrative Problem

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McQuaid

His campaign seems based on one idea alone: because of who he is -- not what he has done as a senator, not what he wants to do as president, but who he is -- John McCain should be president.

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Palin Voice Coach Billed As "Get Out The Vote" Expense

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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From the Robert Draper piece: [A]n elegant ... woman sat alone at the far end of the bar ... Her name was Priscilla Shanks, a New York-based stag...

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Seth Colter Walls

NYT Catches McCain Camp In Lie About Bailout Response

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leaked copies of Robert Draper's forthcoming New York Times Magazine exposé on the McCain campaign's many messages are already being picked apart by ...

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Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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