Mccain Attacks

Obama Camp: Saving Counterpunch For After 9/11

Washington Post | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics


Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campa...

Will Someone Please Make Obama Watch the McCain Version of the Katrina DVD?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics


Marty Kaplan

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.

Sam Stein

McCain Critics Continue To Attack His Wealth

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics


The drawback of John McCain's attack on Barack Obama's "elitism": it makes his own wealth fair game. For the second time in as many days, critics of...

Sam Stein

McCain Attacks Obama For "Bitter" Comments In Pennsylvania

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics


Senator John McCain attacked Barack Obama on Tuesday for having a condescending opinion of working class Americans, evoking his rival's infamous "bitt...

Sam Stein

Obama: McCain's Not Running A Campaign To Be Proud Of

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama accused John McCain on Tuesday of running a campaign that the presumptive Republican nominee himself couldn't take pride in. Speaking at...

The New Meaner More Popular McCain

Colorado Independent | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home


Colorado Independent

His relentless attacks on Obama have garnered criticism in the press, but McCain's popularity in battleground Colorado, at least, has grown in recent weeks. The mean guy may work as strategy.

Sam Stein

McCain Fumbles His "This Week" Appearance

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics


Coming off of a week in which he made several notable gaffes and was overshadowed by his rival's trip overseas, Sen. John McCain was undoubtedly hopin...

Sam Stein

McCain Takes Page From Clinton: Attacks Obama On Committee Chairmanship

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics


Here's more evidence that John McCain is looking to the primary campaign of Hillary Clinton as a template for his own race against Barack Obama. On ...

Sam Stein

McCain Tries To Have It Both Ways: Obama Is Too Rigid And A Flip Flopper On Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics


The desire within the McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as inconsistent on Iraq is palpable. But McCain's criticisms are a bit inconsistent themse...

Thomas B. Edsall

The Coming Obama-McCain Mudfight

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics


At a Friday night fundraiser, Barack Obama warned supporters that Republicans "are going to try to scare people. They're going to try to say that 'tha...