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McCain Concession Speech: "The Failure Is Mine" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics


The election is over, and at 11:15 EST McCain delivered his concession speech in Arizona, with his wife Cindy and running mate Sarah Palin by his sid...

McCain's New Stump Speech: "Lusty Attacks" On Obama, "Very Few Specifics" On Economy

New York Times | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics


Senator John McCain devoted most of two campaign appearances on Wednesday to lusty attacks on Senator Barack Obama and gave less attention, and offere...

Sam Stein

"My Fellow Prisoners," McCain Calls Americans

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


After referring to the various proposals that comprise his domestic policy agenda, John McCain offered an absolute head-scratcher of a line during a c...

New York Times Fact-Checks McCain: "Inaccuracies, Exaggerations" Of His Own Position And Obama's

New York Times | Larry Rohter | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Speaking in Albuquerque on Monday, Senator John McCain attacked Senator Barack Obama on several fronts that by now have become familiar. But many of h...

Sam Stein

McCain On 'Black Monday': Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Still Strong

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


John McCain may want to refine his economic message a bit more during this potentially disastrous week for the financial sector. On the campaign trai...

The Politics of Flattery

Edwin Eisendrath | Posted 10.11.2008 | Chicago


Edwin Eisendrath

The biggest question for Americans is not whether we like Barack or John, Sarah or Joe better. It is whether we have the character to recognize flattery when we hear it, and to stay focused on what matters.

What Kind of Fall is This Going to Be?

David Murray | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago


David Murray

Wednesday night after Sarah Palin's speech, I went to bed with a pit in my stomach that reminded me not of November, 2004, but rather October, 2003.

Watching McCain's Speech - San Francisco

Brian Pendleton | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home


Brian Pendleton

Only two people were watching the speech, and after it ended discussed only the beer selection for their next round. They didn'tt appear to be engaged in it on any significant level other than the fact that it was what was on the TV.

Why Should it Take a Prison Cell to Raise a Citizen?

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Adam Hanft

Here's John McCain's story as told last night, if anyone actually listened to the unadorned narrative...

Arianna with Larry King on the McCain Speech and the Sarah Palin Soap Opera

Huff TV | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


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Can Democrats Learn to Speak Redneck?

Beth Arnold | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Beth Arnold

Not only do the Democrats need to register every young person they can find, they must reach out to groups who live where they have become afraid to tread -- the gun toting speaking-in-tongues crowd.

McCain Tried To Overcome Himself In Speech

Washington Independent | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Darkness had fallen over the city when Sen. John McCain stepped out from the shadow created by his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, when she las...

RNC "USA!" Chant Was Code To Drown Out Protesters

CNN | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


In response to early rumors that demonstrators might try to interrupt Republican presidential nominee John McCain's acceptance speech Thursday night, ...

McCain's Road To Victory

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

In Palin, McCain may have found a way to shift attention away from Bush-McCain associations. "In a normal election," Karl Rove said, "the effect of the vice presidential candidate is minimal..."

John McCain Discovers You Only Get One Chance to Make a Last Impression

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


Robert J. Elisberg

The speech was excellent during its last, rousing minute. But that came at the 50-minute mark -- at which point the people hurting had probably turned off their TVs to save on electricity.

McCain is Running on the Amnesia Platform, But It's Democrats Who Need to Forget Sarah Palin

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

Listening to the speech, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.

In His Big Speech, McCain's 10 Energy Lies Top Palin's 4 Energy Lies

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


Joseph Romm

McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports.

Sam Stein

McCain Speech Interrupted by Iraq Vet Heckler

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


John McCain's acceptance speech got off to a rocky start on Thursday night when, on three separate occasions, he was interrupted by protesters, twice ...

McCain Upstaged By Green Screen, Pink Protestor

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media


John McCain is delivering his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination — and though it seems to be ending on a nice, uplifting, inspiring...

Sam Stein

McCain's Lime Green Background Returns

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


One of the more memorable moments of the general election was when, after Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination, John McCain gave a competing...

McCain To Give Acceptance Speech From 7 Stages

Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics


Jerry and Joe Long

Seeking to counter the "temple" appearance of Barack Obama's Invesco Field stage, John McCain will speak from a revolving series of platforms designed to resemble those homes he can remember.

McCain Not A Real Man, Says Limbaugh

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media


Jeffrey Feldman

What prompted Limbaugh to make a negative ruling on McCain's manhood was not that McCain bashed Bush, but that McCain dared to criticize "government" in his New Orleans speech earlier this week.

Politico: 'Is There A Way McCain Can Win Without Giving Another Speech?'

Politico | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


As Democrats buzzed this week about their new de facto nominee, his historic candidacy and the unlikely political demise of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Re...

McCain's Churlish, Semi-Snarky, Out-Of-Place Speech

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media


McCain took the opportunity last night to make a speech that was not only bland and boring, but marked by a weird snarkiness that seemed extremely out of place on a night of historic firsts.

The Lime Green Monster: McCain's Speech Widely Panned

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


It may be a superficial quip with Senator McCain's speech tonight, but as Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic noted, in presidential politics, "theatrics ma...