Archive for the ‘mccain’ Category

McCain rejects endorsement from televangelist

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Flip flop: Republican presidential candidate John McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of an influential Texas televangelist after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.Read the full story

Barr announces Libertarian White House bid

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government.Read the full story

CBS/NY Times: Voters Approve of Obama’s handling of Wright, Now Leads McCain by 11

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

From the new CBS/NY Times poll, taken May 1-3 OBAMA'S HANDLING OF WRIGHT SITUATION (Among registered voters who have heard about Wright). Obama extends lead vs. McCain Read the full story

McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and 7 Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Well, sort of. The HuffPo folks love to write sensational headlines... "We would have to quadruple the number of reactors to 400, which would take decades even if we could somehow return to -- and sustain -- the fastest decadal rate of U.S. nuclear plant construction. But that wouldn't mean ...

The All-White Elephant in the Room - Frank Rich on Pastor Hagee

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. On Feb. 27, he stood with John McCain and endorsed him over the religious conservatives' favorite, Mike Huckabee, who was then still in the race. Are we really to believe that neither Mr. McCain nor ...

McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence

Monday, April 28th, 2008

"I would hope that we could bring them all home," he said on MSNBC. "I would hope that we would probably leave some military advisers, as we have in other countries, to help them with their training and equipment and that kind of stuff."Read the full story

Book: McCain temper boiled over in ‘92 tirade, called wife a ‘c***’

Monday, April 7th, 2008

McCain has an anger problem. He's clearly a conflicted individual - just look at his past and present positions.Read the full story

Autism Fact and Fiction

Monday, March 17th, 2008

For that matter, what are we to think? Passions about autism are running higher than ever, and for good reason. Autism spectrum disorders affect one in 150 kids from all walks of life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a tenfold jump in just the past decade. ...

NY Times ‘hits’ McCain over melanoma ’secrecy’

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

He adds, "So Mr. McCain’s prognosis for the recurrence of melanoma can be gauged only by talking to experts not connected with his case. Those experts say his prospects appear favorable."Read the full story

McCain Mailer Touts Adopted Daughter in South Carolina

Friday, January 11th, 2008

"Cindy cradles little Bridget, a baby she and John adopted in 1993 from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. Bridget has been a great blessing to the McCain family," the mailing says. "Today, Cindy and John work together to promote adoption and to help women facing crisis pregnancies."Read the full story