Big Union Launches Populist Attack On McCain's Wealth
In a move that signals a major new effort to woo elderly voters to Obama, the AFL-CIO is dropping a scorching new mailer in battleground states hammer...
In a move that signals a major new effort to woo elderly voters to Obama, the AFL-CIO is dropping a scorching new mailer in battleground states hammer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics
Surrogacy on behalf of a presidential candidate can, on occasion, force a politician to deride his own past positions. Such was the case Sunday mornin...
Politico | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
While campaigns typically snow reporters with white papers and policy minutiae, many of the domestic policy plans of John McCain have been notably sho...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2008 | 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...
AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security "a disgrace," he still cashes his own retir...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Rev. Jackson's comments that he wanted to cut off Obama's "nuts" was a huge event for the press. But when McCain said that Social Security is a "disgrace," his proclamation was mostly passed over as being irrelevant.
LA Times | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
It was a spectacular flop: a president making dozens of fruitless trips around the country to build support for a plan his own party's leadership refu...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
McCain's gaffe on Social Security indicates that he is not any better informed on major domestic policy issues than he is on foreign policy.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
McCain and Bush are like two peas in a pod. They're the same on the economy. They're the same on Iraq. And they're the same on Social Security.
Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
On Monday, during a town hall in Denver, John McCain proposed a radical "fix" for the way Social Security is funded. Responding to a questioner who cl...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
John McCain tried to deny past comments on Social Security reform yesterday, a move which has exposed him to criticism from his rival as well as obscu...
Think Progress | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
On Bill Bennett's radio show yesterday, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina -- who is currently a leading economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R...
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics