John McCain has historically courted and cultivated relationships with reporters of the traveling press corps. That may be changing.
Ira Forman | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
The gall of McCain's 'straight talk' is breathtaking and the flip-flops here ought to finally put the myth of McCain's maverick moderate image to rest.
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Keith Olbermann provided Countdown viewers with a segment on John McCain's flip-flopping called "Double Talk Express." Watch the four-minute package ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
By running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters, the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. It didn't work for Al Gore in 2000. It didn't work for John Kerry in 2004. And it didn't work when Mark Penn convinced Hillary Clinton to do it in 2008. READ MORE Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It To counter the conventional wisdom pundits, the cautious campaign advisers, and his own inner cautiousness, I'm offering Obama seven suggestions for staying true to the vision that took him from longshot "unlikely candidate" to presidential frontrunner. READ MORE Watch Arianna Discussing Secretary Rice's "Proud" Comment on CNN's The Situation Room
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
While we should all honor McCain's service, that doesn't mean we should necessarily honor it by putting him in the White House to take up George W. Bush's third term.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media
The same journalists rendered "too deferential" by George Bush's soaring post-9/11 approval ratings now seem intent on providing cover for McCain. To try to keep that from happening, HuffPost is launching the John McCain News Hunt, an investigative project designed to take a clear-eyed look at the media's coverage of McCain.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
McCain's speech was pure, unadulterated fantasy. The political equivalent of the trippy tour the Beatles gave us in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds -- only instead of rocking horse people eating marshmallow pies, we get "a functioning democracy" in Iraq.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
There's been much ado about hot candidate wives (cough Elizabeth Kucinich tongue ring cough) but we're here to point out the highly under-noted Cind...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics