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Until recently, I have been bored by politics in the U.S. The stalemate in Washington DC has been unbearable.
And then enters Senator John McCain.
The former Republican presidential candidate and senator from Arizona is fighting for his...
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In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, President Barack Obama challenged his critics to identify any “gap” between what he campaigned on last...
made popular Dec 23 2009
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Sunday that health care reform would pass, while a fellow Republican senator was more skeptical.
Appearing on CBS’...
made popular Oct 26 2009
During the election campaign, one of the sticks with which John McCain’s team attempted to beat Barack Obama was a claim that he was soft on terrorism, or, as Senator...
made popular Dec 8 2008
Like millions across the world, I was glued to the TV last night. CNN did an incredible job in covering the elections night. When Obama was announced the elect...
made popular Nov 7 2008
Even before I went to the polls, tears had floored my eyes thrice while listening to the radio. They came from testimonies of people who just voted for the very first...
made popular Nov 5 2008
The entire world is riveted by the US presidential elections, but none more then a people living 7000 miles away from Washington DC. Here reside a people with more then...
made popular Nov 5 2008
As of late, much has been made of the so-called “Real American”. The “Real American”, we are told, watches NASCAR, drinks beer, has barbecues,...
made popular Nov 5 2008
The press has a duty to vet politicians and subject them to an appropriate degree of critical coverage.
But there is a fine line between critical coverage the press...
made popular Nov 3 2008
Don’t say that politicians and the press do not have a knack for comedy.
McCain forgets how many homes he has
“I think—I’ll have my staff get to you....
made popular Nov 3 2008
The Grand Old Party is home to such great orators who have rallied the nation from Lincoln to T. Roosevelt to Reagan. These man explained why they were Republicans....
made popular Nov 3 2008
The Old Confederacy state of Virginia, home of the Confederacy general Robert E. Lee, might cast its 13 electoral college votes for a Democratic candidate on Tuesday...
made popular Nov 3 2008
In the words of a just reelected George Bush, Mr. Rove is “the architect” of his 2004 victory. Few many have shaped Washington in recent years the way Karl...
made popular Oct 29 2008
Nothing really will change either Obama comes as a president or even McCain. America is passing through an irreversible stage which will be very difficult for it to...
made popular Oct 29 2008
Whereas Obama has sought to set a 16-month deadline for U.S. withdrawal, McCain has denounced that as defeatist and insisted that any decision to withdraw should be...
made popular Oct 25 2008
Al-Qaeda supporters suggested in a website message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency. If...
made popular Oct 24 2008
Since her selection as John McCain’s running mate, the Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on clothing and make-up for Gov. Sarah Palin, her...
made popular Oct 22 2008
Age has finally become an issue for John McCain. But the problem isn’t the candidate’s 72 years; it’s the antediluvian approach of his campaign.
made popular Oct 22 2008
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In last nights debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, the third and last presidential debate, John McCain dropped the ball on one of the few things he has to use...
made popular Oct 17 2008
I woke up this morning to the sound of my bitter sweet alarm, thinking to my self “why do I have to wake up early every morning, why do I have to go to work every...
made popular Oct 15 2008
With less than a month left before the Presidential election, the economy has come to the forefront as the decisive factor and will likely remain so through election...
made popular Oct 12 2008
Sen. McCain’s hero, Teddy Roosevelt, inveighed against the depradations of US citizens by Pancho Villa’s adherants beginning in 1914. When Pancho...
made popular Oct 11 2008
Senator McCain claims that the U.S. is “winning” in Iraq and that a surge will lead to victory in Afghanistan. This, despite the fact the General Petraeus keeps...
made popular Oct 11 2008
Yes, times are hard. We’ve bailed out AIG. Lehman went under. Banks have gone under. People are losing their homes faster than a wildfire spreads....
made popular Oct 11 2008
“I hate the g- -ks,” McCain said in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. “I will hate them as long as I live.”
made popular Oct 7 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in...
made popular Oct 6 2008
Sen. John McCain has had a decades-long history of involvement in Latin America — including a romance 50 years ago with a Brazilian girlfriend.
made popular Oct 7 2008
Long-time crusader for ‘consumer rights’, and past and current third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader has issued a challenge to Barack Obama and...
made popular Oct 6 2008
“Now is not the time to fix the blame. It’s time to fix the problem,” McCain says, not long after his campaign blamed Obama and Pelosi for killing the...
made popular Sep 30 2008
Let’s begin with the Presidential Candidates debate. Obama did well McCain not so much. McCain seemed wooden most of the time and refused to look at Obama. Why...
made popular Sep 30 2008
This was one of the most satisfying moments of the entire debate — Barack Obama stepping up to the plate and telling John McCain that he was wrong on Iraq.
made popular Sep 27 2008
There seems to be a lot of disappointment that the candidates did not attack each other more, or start shouting at each other, though Jim Lehrer clearly meant to get...
made popular Sep 27 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will take part in a debate with Democrat Barack Obama Friday after determining significant progress has been made on a...
made popular Sep 26 2008
In a long campaign season reaching its final weeks, platitudes about saving the earth can begin to sound the same, regardless of which candidate they’re coming...
made popular Sep 26 2008
John McCain’s presidential campaign has become increasingly adamant this week that campaign manager Rick Davis has had nothing to do with the consulting and...
made popular Sep 26 2008
During the savings and loan scandal in the late 1980s, Charles Keating — a wealthy Arizona businessman and chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association...
made popular Sep 25 2008
This weekend the New York Times Magazine published an interview with Charles Murray, social scientist and author of “The Bell Curve.” Throughout the interview he...
made popular Sep 24 2008
The lobbying firm of the man Republicans say John McCain has chosen to begin planning a presidential transition earned more than a quarter of a million dollars this...
made popular Sep 23 2008
For the first time since 1932 a presidential election is taking place in the midst of a genuine financial crisis. The reaction of the candidates was revealing.
made popular Sep 23 2008
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Veteran Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, April 28, 2009, the day fellow veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania abruptly switched to the Democratic Party.
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