John McCain

McCain’s Crowd in Tampa Today Was Disturbingly Small, Ten Times Less Than Planned For

November 3, 2008 by Staff

by Sam Stein / The Huffington Post / November 32, 2008 Something was missing from the first of John McCain’s seven campaign stops today: the crowd.Kicking off the last day of the election in Tampa, Florida, John McCain was welcomed by a roughly 1,000 voters. Compare that to the 15,000 people that President Bush drew […]

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McCain Employing GOP Operative Accused Of Voter Registration Fraud

October 21, 2008 by Staff

by Sam Stein / The Huffington Post / October 20, 2008  John McCain’s campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a […]

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McCain’s Other Plumber: G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate Infamy

October 17, 2008 by Staff

SEE EARLIER POST ON G. GORDON LIDDY HERE. by John K. Wilson / The Huffington Post / October 17, 2008 It’s not Joe the Plumber that matters, it’s G. Gordon Liddy the “Plumber” of Watergate fame. David Letterman’s interview with McCain last night should prove to be absolutely devastating to the McCain campaign, if we […]

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Does John McCain ‘pal around with terrorists?’

October 13, 2008 by Staff

McCain Said He Is Proud of G. Gordon Liddy – the Watergate Burglar and Domestic Terrorist by Carl Bernstein /  The Huffington Post / October 13, 2008 Certainly McCain’s continuing “association” and relationship with the convicted Watergate burglar and domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy might suggest that is the case, if we are to apply […]

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A slander against the ’60s

October 13, 2008 by Staff

Republicans’ lies about the Sixties exposed as John McCain’s presidential campaign reaches a new low. by Elizabeth Schulte / Socialist Worker.org / October 13, 2008 “WANTED BY FBI” and “DON’T REGRET SETTING BOMBS” flash across the screen. A deep voice warns, “Barack Obama. He launched his political career in the home of William Ayers, a […]

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The McCain Health Insurance Scam

September 30, 2008 by Doug Porter

Assuming that the country’s banks don’t all fail in the next few weeks, sooner or later the conversation will come around to the issue that’s most threatening to working Americans: Health Care.  Those lucky enough to have insurance are seeing non-covered medical costs soar, along with premiums and ever increasing deductibles. Costs have risen to […]

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How Forgotten Iraq May Elect the Next President

September 30, 2008 by Staff

Whose War Will Win the Election — McCain’s or Obama’s? By Ira Chernus/ TomDispatch.com / September 30, 2008 In 1932, in the midst of a disastrous economic meltdown, Franklin D. Roosevelt made “the forgotten man” the centerpiece of his presidential election campaign. Far more than we suspect, this year’s election may turn not on a […]

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Omitting cell phone users may affect polls

September 25, 2008 by Staff

People with only cell phones may differ enough from those with landlines By Alan Fram / Associated Press / Sept. 25, 2008 WASHINGTON – People with only cell phones may differ enough from those with landline telephones that excluding the growing population of cell-only users from public opinion polls may slightly skew the results, a […]

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McCain and the POW Cover-up

September 21, 2008 by Staff

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary documents attached, of a story that appears in the October 6, 2008 issue of The Nation.  Go here for the original. By Sydney H. Schanberg  […]

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Obama: Find Your Inner Populist

September 17, 2008 by Staff

Obama needs to denounce the those scoundrels from both parties who got us in this financial mess. By Robert Scheer / The Nation /  September 17, 2008 Gag me with a spoon, as Valley girls used to say. Did you see that McCain-Palin ad promising “tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings, […]

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McCain and the Depression of 2008

September 15, 2008 by Gregg Robinson

“The Fundamentals of the American Economy are strong.” John McCain before the 2008 election “Prosperity is just around the corner.” Herbert Hoover just before the 1932 election At a time when this country faces the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people seem set to elect the modern version of Herbert Hoover. […]

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Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama

September 9, 2008 by Staff

Published by Luke Rosiak / OpenSecrets.org /  August 14, 2008  During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they’d be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert, some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside: two or three hundred dollars — or whatever they […]

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How Did the RNC Insult Troops and Veterans? Let me count the ways…

September 8, 2008 by Staff

by Jon Soltz / VetVoice / Monday, September 8, 2008 Last week’s Republican convention sure made every superficial effort to come off as pro-Troop and pro-Veteran.   And, of course, the media ate it up, not challenging a single thing.  But to those of us who did serve, it was offense after offense after offense. […]

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A NOUN, A VERB, AND POW: The Truth About John McCain – Hero or Fraud?

September 5, 2008 by Staff

Flyboy McCain with mates.Editor: The following article originally appeared in the Austin, Texas “The Rag Blog” (not to be confused with the OB Rag blog), on August 30th; we repost it here for its substantive content, as well as the very interesting discussion about the article in the comments – which we have also posted. […]

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Obama raises $10 million after Palin speech vs. GOP raising only $1 million

September 4, 2008 by Staff

Associated Press / updated 6:20 p.m. PT, Thurs., Sept. 4, 2008 ST. PAUL, Minnesota – Barack Obama’s presidential campaign said it raised $10 million Thursday following the Republican National Convention speech by rival John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Palin’s address, heavily laced with digs at Obama, prompted an outpouring […]

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Sarah Palin is Spiro Agnew

August 29, 2008 by Staff

by Jonathan Singer / MyDD / Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 11:27:57 AM EST It has been forty years since someone as inexperienced as Sarah Palin has been put on a national ticket, and surprisingly enough there are some real similarities between Palin and her unprepared predecessor, Spiro T. Agnew, who also had been governor […]

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Lord help us all, Sarah Palin is the VP pick

August 29, 2008 by Staff

Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis / Friday August 29, 2008 It’s official. For all of those who need more information about Sarah and her scandals, I have written extensively on the issue. The link to those posts is HERE. I will be doing a lot more writing on all of this but that reading should tide […]

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‘What the Hell is Wrong with Progressives? I’m Sick of It …’

August 19, 2008 by Staff

‘I’m sick of progressives protesting Obama because of his imperfections.’ by EvilAsh / MyDD(direct democracy) / Tue Aug 19, 2008 On the horizon is perhaps the single most important election of the past thirty years. Our economy, military, infrastructure, legal structure, and foreign alliances are all literally falling apart. The nation that created the U.N. […]

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Progressives and Obama: A Clash of Narratives

August 19, 2008 by Staff

by: Norman Solomon / t r u t h o u t / 18 August 2008 By now, across the progressive spectrum, some familiar story lines tell us the meaning of the Obama campaign. In a groove, each narrative digs its truths. But whether those particular truths are the most important at this historical moment […]

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Georgia War: A Neocon Election Ploy?

August 14, 2008 by Staff

By Robert Scheer / truthdig / August 13, 2008 Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the US presidential election?Before you dismiss that possibility, consider […]

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In study of media coverage, evidence of liberal-bias bias

July 28, 2008 by Staff

Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks. By James Rainey / On the Media / July 27, 2008 Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last […]

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66 Flip-Flops that John McCain Has Made

July 21, 2008 by Staff

Jukebox John keeps changing his tune as he accuses Obama of reversals It’s obvious that the McCain campaign and the RNC have decided to go after Barack Obama as a flip-flopper. What’s equally obvious, though, that Republicans couldn’t have chosen a worse narrative. McCain & Co. seemed to stumble on this line of attack almost […]

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Popeye McCain, Exxon Packs Court, Smelly Penguins at risk, Row Roz Row and more

July 16, 2008 by Staff

By David Helvarg / Blue Notes #47 / July 8, 2008 McCain channels Popeye, announces — “Oil’s Well” If you thought we’d be celebrating Independence from Oil this 4th of July you must be huffing hydrogen. Instead responding to public anxiety over high gas prices and political opportunity seen in new polling figures Republican Presidential […]

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