Bill Ayers Tells His Side: 'A Bit Surreal'
Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election D...
Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election D...
The Hill | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
John McCain is employing several lines of attack each day and Republican strategists say the lack of focus makes it nearly impossible for him to gain ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
In an interview on CBS' "Early Show," John McCain defends his robocalls against Barack Obama, claiming that the Bill Ayers call is "exactly accurate" ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
On a Monday conference call with reporters, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis worked hard to elevate the issue of Barack Obama's undisclosed small do...
The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
McCain goes where he hasn't before in a debate: Bill Ayers. "We need to know the full extent of that relationship," he declares. Then he accuses the c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Honoring the pre-debate tradition, Barack Obama's campaign is out with a memo on Wednesday raising the expectations for John McCain to ungodly heights...
Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago
"Behind in the polls and running out of time to change the subject from the sinking economy, the McCain/Palin campaign has gone hyper trying to morph...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
On Monday afternoon, John McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds offered a quick preview of the third and final presidential debate this Wednesday at Hofstra ...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
The Jed Report reminds us that Barack Obama predicted the campaign's nasty turn months ago: ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
For the fifth straight day, McCain's campaign is going after Barack Obama for his association with Bill Ayers. Only this time the attack comes in the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Greg Sargent noted on Wednesday how the McCain campaign seems to want it both ways when it comes to using William Ayers as a campaign issue. After sug...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
This might come to news to those who have been following the recent developments of the presidential campaign, but during the debate spin-war on Tuesd...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
John McCain's campaign has already recycled several of Sen. Hillary Clinton's primary-season attacks against Barack Obama -- from the famous "3 a.m." ...
Fox News | Marcus Baram | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
This morning, on "Fox and Friends," Rudy castigated Barack Obama's judgment by mentioning his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and To...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
McCain and his hatchet mom VP nominee are desperately trying to expose the "real" Obama to the people of America; but what they are really exposing is how morally corrupt McCain has become. And how complete has been his transformation from a noble reformer into an ignoble hack, willing to abandon his most deeply held values in his lust for the presidency. Read More The Winner of Debate II? "That One" McCain twice laid out the criteria for how the American people should judge the candidates: In tough times, we need someone with a steady hand on the tiller. By that measure, Obama was the clear winner. He was centered where McCain was scattered. Forceful where McCain was forced. Presidential where McCain was petulant. Read More
Washington Independent | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people...
New York Daily News | Posted 11.06.2008 | 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...
TNR | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Perpetually fretting Democrats will not want to accept it. The campaigns themselves can't afford to believe it. Many journalists know it but can't say...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Thirty days until the election and the presidential campaign is reaching new depths. On Monday, the McCain campaign put out a television ad that is n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
Prompted, it seems, by concerns over John McCain's foot-in-the-mouth admission that he did not know the number of houses he owned, aides to the Senato...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago