From Rolling Stone’s Full Metal McCain: “The idea that John McCain is kicking off his trek to the White House by fleeing at top-end speed from the faltering Republican brand is the kind of absurdly facile misperception that only the American campaign press could swallow whole. The reality is that the once independent-thinking McCain has [...]
From Frank Rich’s One Historic Night, Two Americas: “All presidential candidates, Mr. Obama certainly included, are egomaniacs. But Washington’s faith in hierarchical status adds a thick layer of pomposity to politicians who linger there too long. Mrs. Clinton referred to herself by the first-person pronoun 64 times in her speech [last Tuesday], and Mr. McCain [...]
From Ars Technica’s Senate slams FCC newspaper/TV cross-ownership rule: “This is one of those very rare moments when a question of broadcast regulation has a shot of becoming a national election issue. It almost never happens. But it could now, if the House passes Inslee’s resolution and Bush vetoes the law. No doubt Democratic Presidential [...]
From Things Younger Than John McCain’s Home page: “Alaska - the freaking state - is younger than John McCain. And, for that matter, so is Hawaii. McCain is older than two of the fifty states.”
From the New Republic’s Meet John ‘Dubya’ McCain: “Weaned by a military family on the lessons of that most classically Manichaean of modern conflicts, World War II, and psychologically defined by his own maverick streak, McCain’s worldview may be more instinctual than intellectual. But it doesn’t matter. Like Cold War conservatives, McCain has taken a [...]
I know it doesn’t matter as far as whether he’d be a good president or not…and maybe it has something to do with his time as a POW…but whatever…is it rotting? [Hat tip to Lexicon for the eagle eye].
From The New York Times’s McCain Is Vocal on War, but Silent on Son’s Service: “Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months [...]
March 28, 2008 – 04:03 pm
From Financial Times’s Why we should fear a McCain presidency: “It may seem incredible to say this, given past experience, but a few years from now Europe and the world could be looking back at the Bush administration with nostalgia. This possibility will arise if the US elects Senator John McCain as president in November.”
March 25, 2008 – 10:38 am
From Huffington Post’s A McCain Moment: Do You Want Four More Years of This?: “Yes, John McCain is a war hero, and yes, we’re all grateful for his service during the Vietnam war. But as McCain’s embarrassing foreign fact-finding fiascos make clear: having acted heroically in a foreign war does not magically translate into foreign [...]
March 12, 2008 – 12:09 pm
From Alternet’s Looming Threat for Dems: People Against the War Prefer McCain as President: “the polling numbers from late February and early March already show a less logical, more disturbing trend. A clear majority still think the war was a mistake. But when the question is which candidate will do best handling the war, McCain [...]
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