Mccain Debate

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McCain Aide Claims Credit For Deal, Says "We're Going Into A Debate"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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Shortly before 2pm ET, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said on MSNBC that his boss deserves credit for the bipartisan bailout deal. Bounds then appare...

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No He Can't: Obama's Real Debate Problem

Ari Melber | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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Obama is not an expert debater, and if McCain's attempt to skip the first debate does nothing else, it suggests that this is Obama's turf.

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Erratic McCain Parachutes into Temperament Narrative

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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McCain has made another desperate gamble that is likely to do him no good and may even go bad. More importantly, he has introduced a major opening into his character and temperament.

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Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If McCain Doesn't Show

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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Updated 9/26: Click here for updated videos, photos and analysis from the first presidential debate Click here for all debate-related news at HuffP...

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Bush Tries To Bail Out McCain

Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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Talk about bail-outs. John McCain had just made one of the riskiest, and perhaps costliest, moves of his presidential campaign, in attempting to bai...

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Palin Suspends Vice Presidential Campaign: Rushes Back to Alaska to Keep an Eye on Russia

Steve Young | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

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"Governor Palin believes that geography is more important than politics," said McCain campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds.

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Reading The Pictures: Have A Little FU With Your National Crisis

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media

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Is this what a senior campaign staff would look like having just been forced to take earth-stopping measures in response to a national crisis they likened to 9/11?

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The 2008 Election Is About... Customer Service

RJ Eskow | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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McCain's election-year flipflops and gimmicks -- including the "time out" -- should be treated no differently than any salesman's attempt to confuse you into making a bad deal.

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McCain Seeks To Regain The Offensive

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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John McCain, losing ground as the economic crisis deepens, sought today to beat Barack Obama to the punch by suspending his campaign, postponing Frida...

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Postponing Debates: What John McCain can Learn from Ferris Bueller and Me

Alexis C. Jolly | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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You'd think after seventy-two years on this planet, John McCain would have had time to come up with a better excuse to avoid the debate he's obviously not ready for.

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Flashback: McCain Debated While Gramm Negotiated Deregulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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John McCain's push to postpone Friday's debate is being met with wide skepticism from pundits, the American public, and even fellow Republicans. Here...

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Our Troops Don't Get a Time-Out for the Financial Crisis

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

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Unfortunately, insurgents in Iraq don't stop shooting at us, or setting IEDs, because our Commander in Chief needs a breather to figure out Wall Street.

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McCain Chickens Out of the Debate

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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McCain can kill two birds with one stone by ducking the debate: get out of debating Obama for a few days, and figure out what his position is on the economy that he helped destroy.

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McCain Supports Bailing Out of Debate

Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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"As of today, I am officially bailing out of the debate," Sen. McCain told reporters in Washington today. "And I invite Sen. Obama to join me in this bailout effort."

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Supposed Campaign "Suspension" Reveals Depths of McCain's Deceit and Desperation

John R. Bohrer | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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McCain's call is deceitful and frankly desperate. Why? Yesterday he "approved this message" in an ad titled "Mum." It attacks Obama for doing nothing on the economic crisis.

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McCain's New Campaign Slogan

Greg Saunders | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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The McCain campaign thinks his strategy of "suspending" his campaign helps reinforce his "Country First" slogan, but it really just makes him look like an old man who can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

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What Else Would President McCain Postpone in a Crisis?

Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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Lincoln ran for office during the Civil War. Reagan ran at the height of the Cold War. Bush ran with two wars raging in Afghanistan and Iraq. But McCain can't run during a crisis on Wall Street?

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McCain's Economic Plan: Blurt Out Random Crap

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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If what we've seen from the senator so far is him "focusing" on the economy -- what the hell is he like when he's multitasking?

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McCain Ducks Debate and "Suspends" Campaign

Ari Melber | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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It's not clear how a national presidential debate -- the ultimate bully pulpit in this political season -- would detract from any effort to build national consensus on solutions for the economic crisis.

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Presidential Debate: Video, Highlights, Analysis

Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

*****WATCH THE DEBATE LIVE***** 10:54 - Seth Colter Walls: Brit Hume: McCain had a "peculiar" expression on his face while listening to Obama. "I don...

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McCain Ditched Debate In 2000 When He Was Down In Primary Polls, FLASHBACK

SF Chronicle | Carla Marinucci, John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writers | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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With new polls showing his campaign dead in the water among California Republicans, Arizona Sen. John McCain has pulled out of a long-scheduled debate...

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