Category Archives: Politics: McCain

• What does McCain mean by ‘we’?
• McCains Failed To Pay Taxes On California Home For Four Years, Newsweek To Report
• Media Matters, The Edwards standard and John McCain
• Carpetbagger Report, Up until recently, McCain opposed his ‘top priority’
• Nitpicker, McCain's hidden military background
• HuffPo, Gen. Clark and That POW Thing McCain Hates Talking About
• McClatchy Washington Bureau, Senator: Angry McCain grabbed Sandinista official at talks. Followup: McCain Denies Assaulting Sandinista
• Baltimore Sun (& AP), In a contest of who would be the more popular guest at a summer barbecue, Barack Obama beats John McCain by 52 percent to 45 percent
• And here, via Digby, is a more recent example of the McCain short fuse in action.
• Carpetbagger, McCain rejects his own admissions, denies ignorance on the economy. Just don't call it a lie…
• Carpetbagger, Another major staff shake-up in the McCain campaign

• AP, Analysis: McCain hampered by campaign missteps. Yes, AP. Sue me.
• Carpetbagger Report, With McCain, it’s about more than a simple change of heart
• Crooks & Liars, Top McCain Adviser: Another terror attack would give McCain “big advantage”
• HuffPo, Impossible: Finding An Expert Who Says McCain's Energy Plan Provides Short-Term Relief
• Here's the sort of shocking flip-flop on a basic issue of principle for which I can imagine no justification other than naked ambition: McCain in 2005: Gitmo Detainees Deserve Trials Or Should Be Released. Now, of course, McCain claims that a Supreme Court decision giving minimal habeas rights is one of the worst decisions in the the Court's history….
• Nitpicker Blog, McCain Lying about oil spills
• Crooks & Liars, A novel defense for McCain’s policy reversals
• Politico.com, John McCain doesn't work weekends

Not surprisingly, McBush's poll numbers are slipping in key battleground states…

• Talking Points Memo, McCain Signs on For More Bush Bamboozlement!
• The Carpetbagger Report, Clark hits McCain — and hits all the right notes
• Kevin Hayden, McCain attacks Supreme Court, Constitution and Founding Fathers
• Crooks & Liars, McCain struggles to wrap up his own party’s support
• Kos, Random voters, McCain-style
• Kos, McCain can't balance his own budget — is he really carrying over $100,000 in credit card debt? Or is it closer to $500,000? Either way, it seems odd…
• Crooks & Liars, McCain sees detainee ruling as one of the ‘worst’ in ‘the history of this country’
• John McCain Debates Himself on Supporting Bush
• Mike Stark, ABC, McCain Cancels Event with Controversial Fundraiser — No, Wait! — it's on again (sort of, but without the controversial host)
• Crooks & Liars, McCain Caught Stealing Democratic Music
• Carpetbagger Report, McCain ‘promises’ to get bin Laden — with ‘people who can swim in the water’
• Firedoglake, McCain Losing “Maverick” Brand; Voters Most Likely To See Him As “Old”
• Kos, McCain's Straight Talk & Support For the Military
• Feminist Law Professors, Information Is Power. In a somewhat related vein, Cooks & Liars, Wesley Clarke on McCain: ‘He’s changed his position on torture. Who is he?’
• Andrew Lebovich at The Washington Note,Guest Post: A Belated Note on McCain, Petraeus, and Civil-Military Relations
• Jeffrey Klein: McCain's Secret, Questionable Record – Politics on The Huffington Post — which I think matters only for the reasons set out in Crooks & Liars, McCain’s secrecy over Navy records raises questions
• McCain's Offshore Drilling Position A Flip From Three Weeks Ago (see the YouTube version of the flip — I've said all along that YouTube would kill McCain's electability…

sigh

• The Carpetbagger Report, McCain “contradicts precisely what he said earlier”
• McCain Claims To Have Never Accepted An Earmark Or Pork Barrel Project, but in fact John McCain Requested and Received Over $60 Million In Pork Projects (McCain Source)
• The Carpetbagger Report, Why pro-choice Dems have nothing to like about John McCain
• Kos, McCain lied to Newsweek…will the press notice?
• Talk Left, The New John McCain
• Think Progress, McCain On When Troops Would Come Home From Iraq: ‘That’s Not Too Important’
• Think Progress, McCain On Whether Cheney Might Serve In His Administration: ‘Hell, Yeah’
• The Carpetbagger Report, McCain to boost and cut Pentagon spending at the same time
• The Huffington Post, McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use A Computer
• Glenn Greenwald, John McCain then and now
• Crooks & Liars, McCain realizes he doesn’t like the estate tax after all

These are only the highlights of the past week's bounty:

• McCain Google Bomber
• Should John McCain Be Investigated In Light Of Scott McLellan's Revelations?
• McCain happy to echo WH propaganda on Iraq

• McCain Campaign Responds To Senator’s Inaccurate Iraq Statements:20,000 troops are a 'verb tense’.

  Bonus: Jack Cafferty On Verb Tense (wait for it):

• McCain admits it was inappropriate to fundraise using Petraeus picture.
• Jon Stewart Calls Out McCain for Hypocrisy on Supporting Veterans
• McCain's Katrina Record Undermines Criticism Of Obama On Iraq
• McCain continues to shift with the wind
• McSame: John McCain Offers Bush “Different Kind Of Republican” Pitch
• PageOneQ | Human Rights Campaign issues scathing report on John McCain
• McCain&Iraq: No One Has Supported Bush More

• McCain's Past Infidelities, Ongoing Sanctimony Haunt Him In Town Hall Meeting
• Talking Points Memo | TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless
• McCain’s More of the Same
• Senate Intelligence Report Undermines McCain’s Claims That ‘Every Assessment’ Justified War In Iraq
• HurricaneMcCain.com explains how McCain is dissing Florida

I can't keep up with this.

• Crooks and Liars, Lincoln Chafee: “There are two John McCains”
• Progressive Media USA, John McSame
• The slideshow John McCain really doesn't want you to see.
• The General, McUlysses