McCain Advisers

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 21 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - Expanding the use of low-cost generic pharmaceuticals would be near the top of the health care agendas of both Barack Obama and John McCain if elected in November, Advisers for the presidential contenders said Thursday. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 13 days ago
Bloomberg - Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama proved he was fit to be commander-in-chief and John McCain showed he has a deeper knowledge of international affairs, two of their senior foreign- policy Advisers said after the first presidential debate. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 14 days ago
Bloomberg - Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Advisers to both presidential candidates warned today of adverse consequences should Congress fail to pass an economic rescue plan along the lines proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 12 days ago
Bloomberg - Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama each deserve credit for a breakthrough in talks on a $700 billion plan to revive the credit markets, their Advisers said today. ...

Source: news.stanford.edu --- 12 days ago
With John McCain and Barack Obama throwing political punches over how to deal with the country's financial crisis, you might think a face-off between a pair of their economic Advisers would get ugly. ...

Source: elections.foxnews.com --- 16 days ago
NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate John McCain met Wednesday with a panel of business executives to seek their opinions on the Bush administration’s proposed $700 million bailout of U.S. financial markets. McCain said he wanted to discuss “how we can make sure that the American people regain confidence on Main Street so that they can [...] ...

Source: www.mercurynews.com --- 15 days ago
They agree on setting aside partisanship to deal with the financial crisis, but on little else. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 19 days ago
It's been a busy 24 hours out there, with the debut of two new ads and two web videos from the McCain campaign and a new ad from the Obama campaign. Here's the rundown of the three ads that the campaigns say will appear on television: The McCain camp released a spot this morning called "Jim Johnson," which the campaign says will be "televised nationally." The ad spotlights the former Fannie Mae CEO who had to resign from his position as head of Obama's vice presidential search team after criticism of his favorable mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial. The spot shows Obama saying "It would be unacceptable for executives of these institutions to earn a windfall," as an announcer argues that Obama's words don't match his deeds. "Meet Jim Johnson, former Fannie Mae CEO," the announcer says. "Fannie cooked the books and Johnson made millions. Then Obama asked him to pick his VP. And raise thousands for his campaign. Barack Obama. More empty words." That spot comes on the heels of another, similar McCain spot pushing a (dubious) connection between Obama and former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. That spot, "Advice," was released Thursday night, and it has prompted questions over whether the McCain camp is playing the race card by pushing a questionable link between Raines, who is black, and Obama. "Obama has no background in economics," an announcer says in the spot. "Who advises him? The Post says it's Franklin Raines, for 'advice on ...

Source: www.pbs.org --- 28 days ago
Among the issues being debated among the campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama is education, with each candidate seeking to define positions on school spending and the No Child Left Behind initiative. Education Advisers for McCain and Obama detail the candidates' plans. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 3 days ago
When Politico's Ryan Grim approached Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after the evening of the Senate bailout vote, the reporter didn't even get his question out. "Excuse me, you're bothering me," McCain said. It was a surprising rebuke from a politician who once was famous for palling around with reporters, and who was so media-friendly that he was sometimes known as "the senator from 'Meet the Press.'" But what friends call "grumpy McCain" is showing up regularly on the campaign trail, and several top Advisers worry that it's hurting his campaign by making him appear peevish and hunkered down when the country is looking for a larger and more optimistic brand of leadership. More on John McCain ...

Source: adage.com --- 20 days ago
John McCain and Barack Obama are now battling about who has the worst financial Advisers. McCain says Obama is up to his eyeballs in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac connections. Obama points out that McCain is being advised by Carly Fiorina, "the fired CEO who... ...

Source: www.crooksandliars.com --- 20 days ago
When you readily admit you don’t understand the economy, it matters a whole lot who you surround yourself with to provide advice on economic matters. ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 38 days ago
Today, Martin Feldstein and John Taylor, two of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) economic Advisers, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that McCain’s tax plan is designed to help “all Americans,” “especially those in the hard-pressed middle class,” and that “Mr. McCain will bring the budget into balance.” In reality, McCain’s plan will [...] ...

Source: www.kansascity.com --- 23 days ago
A live Webcast of “The Next President and the Entrepreneurial Economy,” a panel discussion with the McCain and Obama campaigns’ economic policy directors, is set for 3:45 to 5 p.m. Friday. The event, moderated by Kauffman Foundation president and CEO Carl Schramm, will be available at www.kauffman.org/economicpolicy. ...

Source: blog.cleveland.com --- 31 days ago
THE AD: "No Maverick," 30-second television commercial. PRODUCER: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. WHERE TO SEE IT: Television or below. RATING: 8 on a scale from 0 (misleading) to 10 (truthful) (Numerical rankings done by The Plain Dealer.)... ...

Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 2 days ago
It looks like John McCain's foreign policy Advisers are back in the news -- and not in a good way. Yesterday, McCain issued a statement urging the Bush administration to enlarge a $6 billion package of military equipment for Taiwan, announced earlier this week. McCain wants submarines and F-16 aircraft added to the package. But as the Washington Post notes , the lobbying firm run by Randy Scheunemann, McCain's top foreign policy adviser, in June renewed a $200,00 contract to lobby on behalf of Taiwan. And in 2005, Scheunemann had personally signed the original contract between his firm, Orion Strategies, and the Taiwanese government. (Scheunemann took a leave of absence from the firm to work on McCain's campaign.) The Post reports: The McCain campaign did not respond to a request for comment on whether Randy Scheunemann, his foreign policy coordinator, had a role in drafting the statement or if he had recused himself. But that's not the only potential conflict of interest here. As Think Progress points out , Scheuenemann has also lobbied for Lockheed Martin, which makes the F-16s that make McCain wants to give to Taiwan. And here's something else worth noting. Another McCain foreign policy adviser , Bruce Jackson, is a former Lockheed vice president. Jackson is a close Scheunemann ally, who was at Lockheed until 2002, during the period when, according to Senate disclosure forms, Scheuenemann lobbied for the arms contractor. The t ...

Source: www.politico.com --- 3 days ago
McCain is miserable about having to run a campaign that's antithetical to his persona. See also: Game- time ...

Source: www.dailyprogress.com --- 8 days ago
Covering more of the nation’s 45 million Americans without health insurance is a top campaign promise by both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. ...

Source: tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 2 days ago
As noted here and elsewhere, the words "William Ayers" appeared nowhere in yesterday's debate, despite the fact that the McCain campaign hinted for days that McCain would go hard at Obama's associations. Now Politico reports that McCain Advisers are privately indicating that Ayers, and Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, may be off the table for good : After days of attempts to persuade voters that Obama's ties to '60s radical Bill Ayers are a crucial character issue, McCain didn't mention Ayers' name during the 90 minutes of Tuesday's forum. His top aides suggested afterward that, going forward, the candidate wouldn't focus on the former domestic terrorist nor invoke the name of Obama's controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. If it's really true that the McCain team is holstering this pistol, it suggests that the McCain campaign's internal polling on how the Ayers stuff is playing is just brutal, likely among independents. It also suggests that Obama's counter-attack -- lambasting McCain's campaign for wanting to change the subject from the economy to personal attacks -- has been effective. Also: No more hits on Ayers or Wright will make for a lot of disappointed conservatives. All that said, whether or not Ayers comes up again, the McCain campaign hasn't stopped with its strategy of painting Obama as a risky and vaguely sinister unknown. The campaign released an ad this morning asking, "who is Barack Obama?," and concluding ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 30 days ago
Washington — John McCain and Barack Obama agree that nations in Latin America and the Caribbean need to provide better economic opportunity for their people but fundamentally disagree on specifics l... ...