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Source: www.politicsdaily.com --- 1 day ago
President Obama has stared down the North Koreans and won . . . or something. Recall that two weeks ago, the White House sent the guided-missile destroyer USS John McCain to chase down a North Korean tramp steamer, the MV Kang Nam 1, thought to be carrying missile parts or maybe (hopefully) nuclear weapons material. The excuse to get nasty with the North Koreans: a U.N. Security Council resolution punishing them for their atomic and missile tests. The U.N. said it was OK to stop any North Korean ship under suspicion. Stop it and ask to board for an inspection, but without using force.   Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments ...

Source: www.dailykos.com --- 6 hours ago
While the elitist #dickwhisperers at the Washington Post dream up ways of monetizing their "access," let's take a trip down memory lane to shortly 4AM Eastern time on September 1, 2008, less than 72 hours after John McCain announced Sarah Palin would be his VP. At a quarter-past the hour, Daily Kos diarist Liz Arnett posted a diary featuring several videos tying Sarah Palin to the Alaskan Independence Party, a pro-secession fringe group in Alaska. The diary rocketed up the rec. list and a few hours later, georgia10 followed up with a front page post summarizing the questions raised by Palin's apparent connections. Later that day, the story was picked up by reporters at ABC, The Atlantic, and TPM. They fleshed out some of the important details: it was Todd, not Sarah, who was actually a member of the party, they found, but Sarah had addressed the AIP and members of the AIP felt Sarah was sympathetic to their pro-secession cause. Flash-forward six weeks, and Salon published a detailed article by Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert showing the tight connections between the Palins and the secessionists, attracting CNN's interest. That brings us to today. In a gripping new article , CBS News' Scott Conroy and special contributor Shushannah Walshe explain what happened next: On the morning of Oct. 15, Palin was aboard her campaign jet and en route to New Hampshire when she happened to catch a disparaging CNN segment that touted the Salon.c ...

Source: www.azcentral.com --- 18 hours ago
As President Barack Obama pressed his case for an overhaul of the nation's health-care system, Arizona Sen. John McCain on Wednesday urged caution and warned that the plan would lead to a single-payer health-care system with rationed and lower-quality care. ...

Source: pajamasmedia.com --- 22 hours ago
MOE LANE: A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. ...

Source: corner.nationalreview.com --- 1 day ago
The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign. At issue is a question that was never resolved following McCain's loss in November: Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing Sarah Palin to the press? After being forwarded some explosive emails from inside the McCain campaign, I spoke to various campaign officials -- including a central figure in the current controversy -- to better understand what's happening here. But first, this requires some unpacking. The best summation of the fallout from the VF piece is this Politico story by Jonathan Martin. In a nutshell, the controversy centers on this sentence from the VF profile: "Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression? (Palin's youngest son was less than six months old.)" Yesterday on The Weekly Standard's blog, Bill Kristol fingered that anonymous top aide making speculative assessments about Sarah Palin's mental state: "In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin's mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt." Schmidt, who headed up day-to-day operations for the McCain campaign, angrily denied the accusation to Jonathan Martin. However, Randy Scheunemann, a top foreign-policy adviser to the McCain campaign, backed up Kristol's claim saying Schmidt has "a congenital aversion to the t ...

Source: www.swamppolitics.com --- 1 day ago
by Mark Silva Todd Purdum's piece about Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair has ripped a Band-Aid off the wounds of the McCain-Palin campaign, and it's not a pretty sight: Politico tells the McCainPalin-camp in-and-out-flighting tale: William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and an informal adviser to Palin, complained publicly about a Purdum passage in Vanity Fair's August issue about "some top aides" who had worrie about the Alaska governor's "mental state" during the 2008 campaign, suggesting the Alaska governor may be suffering from post-partum depression following the birth of her son Trig. "In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin's mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt," Kristol wrote. Schmidt's reply, via Politico : "I'm sure John McCain would be president today if only Bill Kristol had been in charge of the campaign... "Categorically false,'' Schmidt added: "His allegation that I was defaming Palin by alleging post-partum depression at the campaign headquarters is categorically untrue. In fact, I think it rises to the level of a slander because it's about the worst thing you can say about somebody who does what I do for a living." But wait: Randy Scheunemann, a longtime foreign policy adviser to McCain and close Kristol, tells Politico : ...

Source: digg.com --- 1 day ago
"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be." ...

Source: swampland.blogs.time.com --- 8 hours ago
I have been a bit exhausted by most of this post-post-postmortem of the McCain campaign, relitigating old divisions that only really matter now on the off-off-off chance that Sarah Palin is the Republican standard bearer in three years. But I do find these old emails, published by CBS News, rather riveting. The whole thing starts [...] ...

Source: www.azcentral.com --- 18 hours ago
I recently flew to Washington, D.C., and Sen. John McCain was on the same flight (in coach, too). Since he has a well-deserved reputation over the years for taking a lead role in successfully negotiating bipartisan compromises on a number of difficult issues, I asked him to share with me his key negotiating principles. ...

Source: www.kpho.com --- 1 day ago
Sen. John McCain is criticizing an ambitious health care overhaul by Democrats. ...

Source: www.kpho.com --- 1 day ago
McCain is criticizing an ambitious health care overhaul by Democrats ...

Source: www.politico.com --- 1 day ago
Campaign finance partners place a hold on the FEC nomination of Dem lawyer John Sullivan. ...

Source: www.khou.com --- 1 day ago
On the same day the nation's largest private employer announced it supports at least part of President Obama's health care reform plan, his biggest political adversary visited Houston to continue his campaign against it. ...

Source: donklephant.com --- 2 days ago
I should come as no surprise that many Democrats pray for Sarah Palin to be the candidate in 2012, but many smart GOPers realize how much damage she could do to the brand. That’s why we’re seeing pieces like this latest rather lengthy Vanity Fair exposé. Read the rest over at True/Slant. ...

Source: www.denverpost.com --- 20 hours ago
Arizona Sen. John McCain's daughter, Meghan, thinks so highly of Hilary Duff that she wants Duff to play her in the big-screen version of her forthcoming memoirs. "I think she's really hothotter than me — but I'd still want her to play me," McCain tells the New York Daily News. ...

Source: blog.cleveland.com --- 2 days ago
This editorial originally appeared in The Plain Dealer on Feb. 10, 2008. Participating in The Plain Dealer endorsement deliberations were Publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger, Editor Susan Goldberg, Editorial Page Director Brent Larkin, Deputy Editorial Page Director Kevin O'Brien and Associate... ...