What Really Happened To The Old John McCain
A defining moment of the "old" John McCain--as many Americans, even some of his friends, have begun to refer to him as he was before his run for the P...
A defining moment of the "old" John McCain--as many Americans, even some of his friends, have begun to refer to him as he was before his run for the P...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
John McCain's campaign is making what appears to be a final, full-throated effort to paint Barack Obama as a sympathizer with the Muslim world. In the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Ignoring widespread criticism, even from within his own party, John McCain's presidential campaign launched on Wednesday a fresh and vicious wave of r...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
My father said Jackie Robinson wasn't just a great ballplayer, he called him simply A Great Man. I watch Barack Obama handle this campaign and I'm struck by more than just his talent and intelligence and dedication to doing right. I'm struck with his dignity in the face of insult.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
The PEW Research Center is out with a new study that suggests John McCain's attacks against Barack Obama's character and associations have strongly ba...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
With the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position. One official close to the campaign...
Steven Weber | Posted 10.12.2008 | Media
The media is purposefully setting up a political Armageddon in the form of the cultural showdown between Obama and his Hopers and McCain and his Haters. Potentially sky high drama, sky high ratings and sky high casualties.
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
Last night, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tried to correct some of his more, er, angry and scared supporters, ones who seem to buy into the ludicrous myt...
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
Civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis is accusing John McCain and Sarah Palin of stoking hate, likening the atmosphere at Republican ca...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
PHILADELPHIA — His backers feeling increasingly confident, Democrat Barack Obama made a slight nod to his Republican rival on Saturday and asked...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Former Republican Governor of Michigan William Milliken tells the Grand Rapids Press that he's "disappointed" in John McCain and the campaign he is ru...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Four years ago, John Kerry flirted with the idea of making John McCain his running mate. Today, he is denouncing the Arizona Senator for "a stunning f...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
The Jed Report reminds us that Barack Obama predicted the campaign's nasty turn months ago: ...
New York Times | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain devoted most of two campaign appearances on Wednesday to lusty attacks on Senator Barack Obama and gave less attention, and offere...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
What's most troubling about the McCain camp's desperate decision to attack on Sen. Obama is that they understand the nastiness, the pettiness, the just-plain-wrongness of what they're doing.
James Love | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
McCain has a running mate that does not seem to know boundaries. She will go where others won't. Who needs a swiftboating 527 with this VP?
Steven Weber | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
When evil is backed into a corner victory can only be achieved with blood and dishonor. Not only are we all in danger; it is the man who we hope to lead us who is in danger.
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
Like a cartoon convenience store robber shouting "Your money or your life!" at the clerk, McCain has staked his campaign on a last-ditch effort to make voters sufficiently afraid of Obama.
New York Daily News | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
It's getting McNasty again. ... McCain's course correction reflects a growing case of nerves within his high command as the electoral map has shifte...
Washington Post | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
In the two weeks that the Wall Street financial crisis has dominated the political debate, the presidential race has shifted from what had been essent...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Is John McCain's campaign taking political directives on how to handle the current economic crisis from Karl Rove? A day before the Arizona Republica...
DailyKos | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
Sullivan links to a reader email that asks: It also occurs to me that in a way McCain and Rove have actually simply taken over the liberal blogos...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, seems to be living in an inverted universe. In Davis' world it is Barack Obama, not John McCain, who has launch...
Washington Post | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campa...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
The last Democratic presidential candidate who failed to engage, who abjured ruthlessness because it wasn't consistent with the noble kind of politics he wanted America to practice, was Michael Dukakis.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Last week, Black Friday heralded the unofficial kickoff of the 2008 winter holiday...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
New Yorker | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics