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Reading The Pictures: The McCain Buffalo Chip (Un-)Cover-Up

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Photos, John and Cindy McCain, John McCain, Female Exploitation, Kid Rock, McCain Hypocrite, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Politics, McCain Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Wild Debachery, Mccain Buffalo Chip, John McCain Women, Campaign 2008, John Mccain Sturgis, Bikers, Media News

Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could have escaped any blowback from the debauchery and female exploitation in Sturgis. And, as an act of collusion, the visual media totally blinked.

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Four On The Floor: Mac TV

William Bradley | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Celeb, Arnold Schwarzenegger, TV Advertising, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Steve Schmidt, George W. Bush, John McCain, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Politics News

So why did lovable old John McCain suddenly put out FOUR negative TV ads in less than two weeks? Are new campaign director Steve Schmidt and company crazy like foxes? Or just crazy?

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13 Things To Know About The 3rd Straight Mac Attack Ad

William Bradley | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Germany, Troops, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Veteran, George W. Bush, GI Bill, Iraq, Afghanistan, TV Ad, Jim Webb, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Ramstein, Politics News

The reason the McCain campaign is so worried is that the Olympics start in less than two weeks. The next big event after the Olympics? The Democratic National Convention.

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Six Reasons McCain's Lucky He Didn't Make It On That Oil Rig

William Bradley | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Oil, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Berlin, George W. Bush, Politics News

Here are six reasons McCain is very fortunate he ended up at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in Ohio Friday, rather than on a pitching oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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An American In Paris

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Paris, Iran, Sarkozy, Middle East, Berlin, United Nations, Israel, Iraq, Mccain, Obama, Afghanistan, Presidential Campaign, Democrats, Merkel, Politics News

From Kabul to Baghdad to Jerusalem, in Berlin and now in Paris, Obama's conduct abroad has earned him the right to be considered a respected presumptive commander-in-chief.

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McCain Tries To Counter-Program A Wave

William Bradley | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Afghanistan, Iraq, John McCain, TV Advertising, Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News

With the eyes of the world, and the U.S. media, trained intently on Obama during his week-long tour of the Middle East and Europe, for McCain, there is the question of what to do while all this is going on.

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TV Ad Wars: Global O v. Latin Mac

William Bradley | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Politics, Latino, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Media, Nuclear, Iraq, John McCain, Media News

McCain has a problematic new ad for Latino voters. It won't work -- and he was already far behind where Team McCain thought he'd be with Latinos a few months ago.

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Obama's Call to Service Is the Key to Electing Him President

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King, Presidential Campaign, John Kennedy, Progressive Values, Barack Obama, Politics News

Fundamentally, Democrats lost the last presidential election because while we talked about policies and programs, the Republicans talked about right and wrong. Never again.

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Mac And Murph

William Bradley | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Maria Shriver, Politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Tv, Mike Murphy, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News

MIke Murphy is a very smart and amiable strategist. He has good advice for McCain -- that he simply can't win in this environment with the base-oriented strategy he's been pursuing.

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What in the World Can Obama Do?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Iran, The Middle East, Natural Disasters, John McCain, Burma, Presidential Campaign, Middle East, Terrorism, Environment., International Relief Organizations, Barack Obama, Humanitarian Relief, Foreign Policy, Politics News

The institutions created after World War II, while serving us well in many instances, seem not up to the task to take on this century's challenges. Here are several doable big-think ideas for Obama.

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TV Ad Spending To Set Record In Presidential Race

Reuters | Andy Sullivan and Paul Thomasch | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Presidential Campaign Ads, Campaign Ad Spending, Tv Ad Spending, Presidential Campaign, Campaign Ads, Media News

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2008 presidential race, which has already drawn a record number of dollars and voters, is poised to shatter anothe...

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Out Bushing Bush Didn't Work for Gore or Kerry, Out McCaining McCain Won't Work For Obama Either

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Kerry, Military, Barack Obama, National Security, Presidential Campaign, Bill Clinton, Gop, George Bush, Al Gore, Democrats, War on Terrorism, Politics News

Obama's fist shaking on terrorism and national security and back flip votes on FISA won't do much to give him an edge in the battle against McCain.

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Obama's California

William Bradley | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama California, Obama California, Politics News

As Obama dominates in California -- as much through a sort of political and social osmosis as through personal campaigning -- leadership within the state is shifting also.

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Obama's Opt-Out of Public Financing Will Increase the Odds of True Public Financing for All Federal Races

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Campaign, Public Financing, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Freedom's Watch, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Obama Public Financing, 2008 Election, Politics News

Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.

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Greening Hollywood: Arianna on The Green Carpet at The Millennium Awards

Paige Donner | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Slam Poetry, Greening the Home, Webby Awards, Eco-Friendly, Green, Presidential Campaign, Greening Hollywood, Cabinet Post, Net Zero Energy Bill, Prius, Carbon Offsets, Anna Getty, Arianna Huffington, California State Legislature, Aclu, LA Unified School District, Global Green Millennium Awards, Steven Connell, Carbon-Neutral Building Bill, Global Green USA, Green Reporting, Norman Lear, Terrapass, Environmental Media Association, Matt Petersen, Sustainable, Lyn Davis Lear, Environment, Architecture 2030, 2008 Presidential Race, Green News

Arianna was chosen to present the California Environmental Leadership Award to the LA Unified School District at Global Green's annual Millennium Awards held in Santa Monica June 14th.

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McCain, Obama & the Trojan Horse of Nuclear Energy

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Waste, John McCain, Nuclear Energy, Plutonium, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Presidential Campaign, Plutonium-239, Proliferation, Chernobyl, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Green News

Under the guise of concern over climate change, some ask us to re-consider our aversion to new nuclear power, ignoring the same old problems that have stopped any plants from being commissioned since 1979.

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Did Hillary Clinton's Media Missteps Help Doom Her Campaign?

Eric Deggans | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Media, Presidential Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Sexism, Bill Clinton, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Media News

It remains an enduring legacy of the conservative media machine -- and their own past mistakes -- that a couple so admired by the public has such awful relations with the Fourth Estate.

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Obama's PA Strategy: The Rendell Way

Laura J. Mansfield | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Democrat, Election 2008, Pennsylvania Primary, Ed Rendell, Barack Obama, Off the Bus, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Race, Home News

Obama has to follow Gov. Rendell's path to victory in PA: Win huge in Philadelphia, a large margin in the suburbs, break even in Allegheny County, and hold on for dear life in the rest of the state.

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Low Turnout, Few Options Mark Michigan Primary

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Mitt Romney wins the Michigan Republican primary. Decisively. But does it even matter? Before what might be a Ford Edsel turns into a spaceship, a re...

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Dirty Leaflet Campaign Launched Against Clinton

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

A leaflet scattered about Grand Rapids, Michigan today is urging voters to "let your voice be heard"... so long as that voice isn't for Hillary Clinton.

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Giuliani Feeling The Heat Over 9/11 Radios

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Rudy Giuliani, Presidential Campaign, Wayne Barrett, Radios, Brave New Films, 9/11, Giuliani Campaign, 2008 Campaign, Giuliani and Radios, Robert Greenwald, Politics News

By now, it is fairly well known that on 9/11 the New York City Fire Department's radios simply did not work. In fact, it was the same exact equipment ...

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Iowa Church Vote Edging Toward Huckabee

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Faith and Politics, Iowa Churches, 2008 Election, 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Iowa Caucuses, Politics, Barack Obama, Iowa Caucuses, Presidential Campaign, Mitt Romney, Presidential Politics, Mike Huckabee, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Campaign, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Faith, Hillary Clinton, Home News

Eliot Caroom, Kim Farris, and Ellen Emerson White contributed to this piece for OffTheBus. Secretary at Moline Evangelical Church in Moline, Illinois...

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Two Washington Post Reporters Criticize Paper For Obama Muslim Story

Horse's Mouth | Greg Sargent | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Democratic Primary, Obama Muslim, Obama Madrassa, Wapo, Paul Krugman, Washington Post, Obama, Presidential Campaign, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Fear Watch 2008, Politics News

Okay, there have been a few developments with regard to the widely-criticized Washington Post piece I posted about last week that recycled the Obam...

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Fortune 500 CEOs Favor Dems: Gobs Of Green Go To Blue Candidates

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Fortune 500, Campaign Finance Reform, Presidential Election 2008, Republican Presidential Candidates, Presidential Campaign, Fortune 500 CEOs, Democratic Presidential Candidates, Election 2008, Fundraising, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Home News

According to recent FEC reports, CEOs of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies donating individually to presidential campaigns are investing heavily in Democrats in '08.

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Beginning Of The End

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination moved into overdrive Saturday, as candidates scrambled to outdo each other to win over the Iowa ac...

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