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McCain links political correctness to shootings

Sen. John McCain says he has no doubt that "political correctness" played a role in preventing concerns about the alleged Fort Hood gunman from reaching the right people. Complete Story...

McCain: Tension between aides, Palin 'no big deal'

U.S. Sen. John McCain said Saturday that he enjoyed reading running mate Sarah Palin's new memoir and downplayed any tension between their campaign aides as "no big deal."

McCain urges Obama to speed up Afghan decision

U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.

McCain talks health care, spending at town hall

Sen. John McCain says Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised.

McCain exhorts Obama to make Afghan decision now

Sen. John McCain is exhorting President Barack Obama to make a decision quickly on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, saying U.S allies are nervous and military commanders are frustrated.

US Sen. McCain's mother leaves Portuguese hospital

A Lisbon hospital says it has discharged the 97-year-old mother of U.S. Senator John McCain after a weeklong stay following a fall.

McCain presses Obama to pardon black boxer

Sen. John McCain on Friday pressed President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman.

McCain strategist defends Palin as 2008 VP choice

A top adviser from John McCain's presidential campaign who has criticized Sarah Palin's odds as a 2012 presidential candidate defended Wednesday the decision to pick her as McCain's 2008 running mate.

McCain says Palin remains strong force in the GOP

Sen. John McCain says Sarah Palin remains a formidable force in the Republican Party despite widespread criticisms of his 2008 running mate.

McCain: Al-Qaida, Taliban must be seen as partners

Sen. John McCain says Obama administration policy decisions in Afghanistan shouldn't be based on viewing the insurgent Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network as separate and distinct issues.

Key senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardy

Saying the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is in "serious jeopardy," the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says more troops are needed to combat an increasingly potent Taliban.

Senate defeats bid to force general's testimony

The Senate has rejected an effort by Sen. John McCain to force the field commander in Afghanistan to testify before Congress by mid-November.

Senate rebuffs Obama, McCain in backing cargo jets

In a rebuff to both President Barack Obama and his former presidential opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to kill $2.5 billion for 10 new C-17 cargo jets and devote the money to military readiness accounts.

Gates: Military to adhere to Obama's decision

Despite the fierce policy divide inside the White House over Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that the military will fall in line with whatever President Barack Obama decides.

McCain: Time is running short for Afghan decision

Sen. John McCain says too much is at stake in Afghanistan for the United States and its allies to give up the fighting there and says he hopes President Barack Obama "will make the right decision."

Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War. More recently: Bill Clinton and John McCain.

Fineman:  Obama as prosecutor in chief

President Obama emerged as prosecutor in chief in his speech on health care to Congress, a transformation that came just in the nick of time to revive (although not completely) a wobbly effort to sell his plan.

Political luminaries pay tribute to Kennedy

In death as in life, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Friday brought together political rivals — this time to celebrate his ferocious sense of humor and unwavering dedication to family and country.

McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall

Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.

McCain: Afghanistan needs Petraeus' Iraq approach

Sen. John McCain said he wants the military leadership in Afghanistan to use the same aggressive approach that Gen. David Petraeus used successfully in Iraq.

McCain refuses to consider taxes to reduce deficit

Sen. John McCain is refusing to consider raising taxes to reduce the ballooning deficit.

McCain: Obama must drop health care public option

Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health-care reform.

McCain: Health debate hurt by Kennedy's absence

Republican Sen. John McCain says the absence of ailing Ted Kennedy in pushing health-care reform has made a "huge, huge difference" in whether legislation gets passed.

McCain calls for more US troops in Afghanistan

Sen. John McCain called Tuesday for more American troops in Afghanistan, saying that doubling the number of Marines in one southern region could lead to "significantly more success."

US senators talk terrorism, Gitmo issues in Yemen

A delegation of U.S. senators led by John McCain and the president of Yemen discussed on Monday ways to help the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country battle the threat from al-Qaida.

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Poll Shows Sen. John McCain Might Lose Arizona Senate Seat
Source: NY Daily News

John McCain may have been the Republican Party's national standard bearer last year, but now it looks like he may have a hard time just hanging on to his Senate seat.

McCain Recommends Palin's Read
Source: USA Today

"I enjoyed the book and she and I are dear friends. I talked to her on the phone yesterday. We got along fine," said McCain in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Forum.

John McCain May Not Be Senator For Long - Former GOP Nominee Faces Dead-Heat Primary Challenge in 2010
Source: Talking Points Memo

A new Rasmussen poll finds that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) could potentially be in trouble with Republican voters back home in Arizona, where he's often faced criticism from the right for his views on immigration.

Sarah Palin: Whiner-In-Chief
Source: Telegraph

With Palin, what you see is what you get, and what you see in Going Rogue is a woman who is charming, passionate, loyal and patriotic. She is also self-absorbed beyond political norms, prickly, thin-skinned and just plain whiny. This is what stands out for me.

Fox News Applies Its Patented Crowd-Inflating Technique to Sarah Palin
Source: Gawker

Fox News does not learn: The network is claiming that the crowd at a Sarah Palin event today is "huge," and showing footage from what is almost certainly a McCain-Palin rally as evidence.

The house that Reagan built | GOP [The right] laid bare

Navy Pilots are generally not gamblers. Of all his mission critical decisions, Palin is one John McCain most likely would love a do over.

Palin says yes to 2012 presidential run, 'if the people will have me'
Source: Raw Story

Sarah Palin dropped a heavy hint Tuesday that she might seek to run for the White House in 2012 as champion of America's Republican right.

Palin's POWs
Source: The Moderate Voice

Four decades after being tortured in a North Korean prison camp, John McCain is trapped in a slow drip of accusations from Sarah Palin as she embarks on weeks of media ubiquity to promote her aptly titled, "Going Rogue."

FACT CHECK: Palin's Book Goes Rogue On Some Facts
Source: Yahoo! News

Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to pow …

Steve Schmidt, McCain Chief Strategist, Calls Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" a Work of Fiction
Source: CBS News

Steven Schmidt, McCain's chief strategist calls Palin's account "fiction." Other former McCain aides are refusing to speak publicly. But political strategists say they are not so concerned about what happened in the last election. They're looking at 2012.

Tracing Sarah Palin's Socialist Roots
Source: Harry's Place

It's no secret that as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin practiced real (as opposed to rhetorical) socialism.

Rolling Out Sarah Palin's Side of the Story
Source: The New York Times

Despite her disdain for the media, Mrs. Palin spent part of Thursday on the first part of a media blitz for the book, taping an interview to air Monday on the Oprah Winfrey show. On her Web site, Ms.

Sarah Palin to Levi: Stop by for Thanksgiving!
Source: msnbc.com

"I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good," Sarah Palin said of Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild.

Palin Talks with Oprah About Katie Couric, Levi Johnston (video)
Source: CBS News

Sarah Palin did not believe her 2008 interview with CBS News Anchor Katie Couric would be a defining moment in the presidential election, she tells Oprah Winfrey in an upcoming interview -- but she knew it was bad.

Palin: Tensions ran high with McCain aides
Source: msnbc.com

The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin. The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family. In Palin's "Going Rogue," Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain.

Palin: Tensions ran high with McCain aides
Source: msnbc.com

The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin. The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family. In Palin's "Going Rogue," Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain.

Palin Confirms Tension With McCain Aides
Source: The New York Times

NEW YORK (AP) -- The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family.

One year ago today.....

Can you believe it has been a whole year since Barack Obama was elected President? Where were you when you found out he had won? How was your voting experience? I am a Canadian so obviously did not vote in NJ but the Hyder family did have its own Election Headquarters.

Sarah Palin's Lost Speeches
Source: thedailybeast.com

We present exclusively the concession speech that speechwriter Matthew Scully—a Palin loyalist—had written for the vice presidential nominee, as well as the victory speech that he penned for her in the event of a positive outcome.

The Anti-Reason Conservatives
Source: RightWing NutHouse

What is it that possesses certain conservatives to fool themselves so spectacularly into believing that they can create a majority out of a minority?

McCain: Iraq Bombs Needn't Slow Withdrawal
Source: CBS News

"Senator John McCain said today the United States should not delay withdrawing American troops from Iraq" despite the bomb blasts today, October 25, 2009.

McCain and 29 Others Vote Against Franken Rape Bill. Really?
Source: United States Senate

The bill states that if you want to contract with the US Government, you can't make your employees sign to only arbitrate disputes.

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