John Mccain Torture

Criminal Justice: One Of The Enormous Non-Issues Of Presidential Politics

James Freedman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home


James Freedman

A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.

Ignoring the 'Rocks in Glass Houses' Rule, Lieberman Calls Obama a Flip-Flopper on This Week

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

How apathetic does McCain think the voters are that his campaign can get away with accusing Obama of the very thing that has been McCain's biggest weakness?

McCain's Vietnam Captor Speaks: A Conversation With Tran Trong Duyet

BBC News | Staff | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics


In 1967, US presidential candidate John McCain's plane was shot down on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. BBC reporter Andrew Harding tracked dow...

McCain's Views On War Laid Bare In 1974 Thesis

NY Times | David Kirkpatrick | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


About a year after his release from a North Vietnamese prison camp, Cmdr. John S. McCain III sat down to address one of the most vexing questions conf...

"Standard Operating Procedures"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.

What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

Will Thomas

Rove: Stress Positions Are Torture When Done To John McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics


Karl Rove's recent opinion piece on John McCain contradicts the definition of torture to which his former employer adheres. Despite repeated claims t...

McCain-Rice 2008: 'To Torture or Not to Torture' Ticket

Joshua Roman | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home


Joshua Roman

Why would John McCain ask Condi Rice to be his running mate when new reports suggest she was one of the strongest Administration supporters of torture? One word: "Electability."

Great American Hypocrites: McCain's Old Packaging

Glenn Greenwald | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics


Glenn Greenwald

Both the 2000 Bush and the 2008 McCain were mavericks -- inspiring, honest figures who transcend partisan warfare and piously float far above the muck of traditional politics.

Iraq Questions John McCain Must Answer

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Where does McCain stand on Bush's behavior regarding international law in the run up to war?

Why McCain's Experience Could be Harmful

Omid Memarian | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics


Omid Memarian

McCain's rhetoric will enhance America's difficulties with millions of Muslims who relate terrorism to many other issues, but not to Islam.

The Right Strengthens its Hold on McCain, the Media Refuse to Notice

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

Let's see, McCain has bowed to the party's lunatic fringe on tax cuts, immigration, the intolerance of religious bigots, and torture...so exactly how is he reinventing what it means to be a Republican?

John McCain and Torture

Philip Giraldi | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics


Philip Giraldi

On torture, McCain is a hypocrite and also a classic enabler. He publicly abhors a practice, apparently reflecting his genuine sentiments, but then covertly supports it for his own personal political gain.

Jason Linkins

Kristof Offers Nonsensical Support For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics


McCain is the world's worst panderer, mainly because his pandering is exacerbated by a stunning ineptness. Somehow, all of McCain's inconsistencies strike Kristof as laudable.

McCain Can't Keep Stories Straight On Iraq, Torture

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Michael D. Shear | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics


In Saturday's Washington Post the paper examines, in two separate articles, instances in which John McCain seems to be either changing his position, c...

John McCain Sells His Soul to the Right: Backs Off on Torture Ban

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

John McCain's unconscionable capitulation on torture -- a desperate attempt to win over the lunatic fringe that is running the GOP -- should drive a stake through the heart of the McCain-as-straight-talker meme once and for all. Read More End of a Romance: Why the Media and Independent Voters Need to Break Up with John McCain McCain is essentially running to give America a third Bush term -- and, indeed, will even out-Bush Bush when it comes to staying the disastrous course we're on in Iraq. If you think the problem with the United States is that we haven't given Bush enough time to finish his agenda, then John McCain is your man. Read More Who Is Maggie Williams?

Watch McCain Flip Flop On Waterboarding

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home


Hanna Ingber Win

So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. Turns out, he too is just anoth...

Will McCain Vote Against Waterboarding Today?

Think Progress | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics


Today, at 10:30 a.m. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to bring to the floor the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report. One ...

Castro And McCain Spar Over Cuban Torture In Vietnam

Reuters | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics


Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running Republican presidential candidate John McCain Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans tortur...


 

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