HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
John McCain unveiled a new attack on Barack Obama's patriotism Saturday, jumping all over - and taking out of context - remarks made yesterday in whic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign put out on Friday what could be the last television ad it airs this cycle -- a largely biographical spot that includes footage of ...
Rob Kall | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
Transcript of Interview with CDR, USN, Phil Butler on the Rob Kall Bottom-up Radio Show (1360 AM WNJC) Transcription by Jay Farrington and Paul Haw...
Murray Fromson | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Traveling through the heart of Java, I saw bodies of civilians who were slaughtered by Indonesian troops and anti-terror squads who were singled out as Communist sympathizers by the CIA for the coup plotters.
Daily Telegraph | Tom Leonard | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
The Republicans have used shots and excerpts from the 1967 interview in their advertising but the widow of the journalist who made the film says it wa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
Defending the aggressive campaign rhetoric at recent McCain-Palin events against criticisms made by Rep. John Lewis, McCain campaign manager Rick Davi...
Kit Gallant | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
During the 2000 Republican primaries, the late David Foster Wallace spent a week following John McCain's campaign. On the trail, Wallace was writing f...
NY Times | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, heads into the first debate on Friday with a track record as a scrappy combatant and the ins...
The Nation | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public...
Bill Marovitz | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
The Brave New Pac ad takes all the attention off the truly important issues and focuses attention on McCain's war record.
Paul Cohen | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics
We tend to excuse Senator McCain's irrational outbursts and inappropriate behavior -- including a 1995 scuffle with a 92-year-old Senate colleague (from his own party, no less) -- by referring to their root cause.
Adam Hanft | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics
Here's John McCain's story as told last night, if anyone actually listened to the unadorned narrative...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics
If after nine months and hundreds of speeches you are under the impression that McCain is "resistant" to talk about "his time as a P.O.W.," then you are, quite frankly, useless.
Mort Snerd | Posted 09.04.2008 | Home
With a lot of questions still hanging, how well do we really know John McCain? Why are his records sealed? If he's really the hero he claims to be, why not release the records?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
George Bush received a standing ovation by the crowd at the Republican Convention on Tuesday, in an address that said as much about the evolution of t...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
When McCain is willing to sign away the principle derived from what is the defining moment of his life, then the question is: what core of character remains?
Chicago Tribune | Posted 08.31.2008 | Politics
As he prepares to accept his party's nomination for president in Minnesota this week, Sen. John McCain insists he understands the economic anxieties A...
USA Today | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a "distinguished naval officer," but he said the Arizona senator ha...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics
To our knowledge, this new ad from the South Carolina Republican Party is the first ad to focus exclusively on McCain's POW captivity. The spot is se...
Matthew Mundy | Posted 08.28.2008 | Home
Apparently the POW story, for all of its consistency of use, has no consistency of message. Topless contests, music taste, seven homes, torture? POW, POW, POW, flop.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
While Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama and the Obama's daughters were wowing Denver at the DNC, John McCain was sitting down with Jay Leno and bringing up ...
Tom D'Antoni | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics
It's time to stop kissing McCain's red white and blue butt on the subject of serving in the military. General Clark, there are many of us who applauded your statement. I'm sorry you won't be at the convention.
Politico | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told CBS News' Katie Couric on Saturday that Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) is a "formidable" but "wise" choice for the Democratic...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
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...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
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...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics