(Via MyDD.)
One of the most effective charges that can be leveled against George W. Bush - beyond the ineptitude, lawbreaking, and destructive policies - is that he surrounded himself with the wrong people. They were either hopelessly incompetent (Condoleezza Rice), completely surrounded by conflicts of interest (Donald Rumsfeld), or simply evil (Dick Cheney - no [...]
(Via Political Wire.)
Sen. Barack Obama “appears to have rebounded from some of the damage caused by the controversy surrounding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright,” according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
“On one key measure, Obama has seen a big reversal since his denunciation of Wright’s remarks on Tuesday. He now leads presumptive [...]
(Via ABC News.)
Far from the Democratic battlefield of Pennsylvania, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was campaigning where GOP candidates for president rarely go because they don’t have to.
McCain chose Alabama, one of the reddest states on the Electoral College map, to launch a week-long swing through some of the nation’s economically distressed [...]
(Via Yahoo! News.)
Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall.
Partly thanks to an increasingly likable image, the Republican presidential candidate has pulled even with the two Democrats still [...]
(Via Yahoo! News.)
Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday that Republican Sen. John McCain is too old to be president. Murtha is 75, four years older than McCain. He says they are nearly the same age, and the rigors and stress of running the country is too much for guys their age.
“I’ve served with seven presidents,” [...]
(Via Political Wire.)
According to The Hill, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) “is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at the Republican National Convention in September.”
“Republicans close to the McCain campaign say Lieberman’s appearance at the convention, possibly before a national primetime audience, could help make the [...]
(Via washingtonpost.com.)
John McCain told newspaper executives Monday that he supports a “shield law” to protect reporters who refuse to reveal their anonymous sources, putting him at odds with the Bush administration, which has threatened a veto of the bipartisan legislation.
The senator from Arizona said he still worries that national security could be threatened by people [...]
(Via msnbc.com.)
John McCain says he believes it’s a recession.
Speaking at The Associated Press annual meeting in Washington today, McCain said economists may have a technical definition of a recession, but from his perspective the important factor is “that Americans are hurting.”
He also said Barack Obama’s comments that some small-town voters are bitter over their economic [...]
(Via The Associated Press.)
Democratic Party officials want a federal judge to order an investigation into whether Sen. John McCain violated election laws by withdrawing from public financing, saying federal regulators are too weak to act on their own.
A lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission, to be filed Monday in U.S. District Court, questions the agency’s [...]
(Via msnbc.com.)
The independent label sticks to John McCain because he antagonizes fellow Republicans and likes to work with Democrats.
But a different label applies to his actual record: conservative.
The likely Republican presidential nominee is much more conservative than voters appear to realize. McCain leans to the right on issue after issue, not just on the Iraq [...]
