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John McCain stories: 1757 news summaries

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OPINION

 Cheney Should 
 Have Run in 2008 

VP would have lost big and awakened right, says Douthat

Apr 28, 09 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - As he bashes the Obama administration and insists that torture kept the country safe, Dick Cheney sounds less like a retired VP than a man campaigning for a third Bush term. For Ross Douthat, it's a pity he didn't run himself. In his first column for the New York Times,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Dick Cheney • torture • Election 2008 • conservatism • conservative movement

ANALYSIS

Go Ahead
and Mess
With Texas

Nate Silver does electoral math for 5
Lone Star States

Apr 24, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An obscure provision of Texas statehood gives it the right to split into five smaller states, writes Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. He outlines the potential new entities:
  1. New Texas: Centered on Austin, as populous as Kentucky, and split down the middle politically—city vs. suburbs.
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Barack Obama • John McCain • Texas • Dallas • Austin • Houston • Rick Perry • Fort Worth • secession • Rio Grande • Arlington, Texas

(Newser) - The man who ran John McCain's campaign said his defeat was nearly preordained, reports Politico. It was "the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards,” said Steve Schmidt. Given the ascendancy of Barack Obama—"the unfinished Bobby Kennedy campaign"—the unpopularity... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential campaign • campaign adviser • University of Delaware • David Plouffe • Steve Schmidt

(Newser) - The Senate tonight approved Christopher Hill to be the next ambassador to Iraq, overriding the strong objections of John McCain, the Hill reports. McCain argued that Hill doesn't have enough Mideast experience, and he also criticized his work as ambassador to North Korea. Despite the opposition, the Senate approved the... More »

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Iraq • John McCain • North Korea • Christopher Hill • ambassador

Top McCain Aide Comes Out for Gay Marriage

Support consistent with conservative values, Schmidt argues

Apr 17, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Backing what he calls "a sound conservative argument," a top McCain campaign operative is explaining his newly public personal support for gay marriage, CNN reports. Steve Schmidt will address the Log Cabin Republicans today and urge them to reverse their position. “No other exercise of one's liberty... More »

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John McCain • gay rights • gay marriage • GOP • Log Cabin Republicans • Steve Schmidt • Republicans

HBO Plans Film Version of 2008 Election Book

Film will look at events from candidates' perspectives

Apr 14, 09 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - HBO Films has picked up Game Change, a book about the 2008 election, to adapt for the small screen. The book, to be published next year, takes a character-driven look at the campaigns from the perspectives of the candidates and their camps, says Variety. The option continues the network’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • HBO • Recount • Mark Halperin • Election 2008 • adaptation • Frost/Nixon • John Heilemann • The Queen

(Newser) - The bus that took John McCain from Senate maverick to presidential hopeful can be yours for $89,000, ABC News reports. The Republican’s "Straight Talk Express"—powered by gas, not hot air—is for sale at BusForSale.com. No word on whether McCain’s planning on an... More »

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John McCain • Straight Talk Express • campaign bus

(Newser) - Todd Palin says the $150,000 spending spree that outfitted his wife during last fall’s campaign was “out of our control,” the AP reports. “You come into a campaign late,” he told Men’s Journal. “You put all your trust into the team.”... More »

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John McCain • Alaska • RNC • clothes • campaign trail • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

 McCain Asks 
 Obama to Pardon 
 Boxing Champ 

Wants to overturn racially motivated conviction

Apr 2, 09 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has introduced a resolution requesting a posthumous presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, the LA Times reports. Johnson suffered what McCain calls a “racially motivated conviction” in 1913 for dating a white woman. Prosecutors said he’d violated the... More »

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John McCain • boxing • race • presidential pardon

Testy McCain Grills Sebelius on Health Care Tax Credit

'Reform would be my mission' says nominee

Mar 31, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kathleen Sebelius got a chilly bout of questioning from John McCain during a Senate committee hearing, Ezra Klein writes for the American Prospect. His manner tense and confrontational, the Arizona senator asked Sebelius if she supported replacing the tax incentive for employer-based care with a $5000 tax credit—an idea... More »

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health care • John McCain • Health and Human Services • Senate • Department of Health • Kathleen Sebelius • Senate committees • President Obama

ANALYSIS

Populism Gets a Nashville Twang

With Shuttin' Down Detroit, John Rich gives country an unusually aggressive rightish tilt

Mar 31, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - After throwing himself behind John McCain in last year’s campaign, country musician John Rich makes an unusually aggressive foray into politics with the populist anthem Shuttin’ Down Detroit, Jon Caramanica writes in the New York Times. The song protests bailout money going from “an old man working in... More »

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John McCain • country music • Nashville • Jimmy Fallon • John Rich • Shuttin' Down Detroit

(Newser) - Barack Obama may be a gifted politician, but a gifted bracketologist he is not. NCAA brackets across the nation’s capital were shredded this weekend, the Hill reports, as a slew of upsets took down all but one of the tournament’s top seeds. Just one member of the president’... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Mitch McConnell • John Boehner • college basketball • 2009 NCAA Tournament

Meghan McCain: I'm a New Kind of Republican

Tells Larry King she supports Obama, but is 'totally daddy's girl'

Mar 24, 09 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain considers herself a “progressive Republican,” she told Larry King last night on CNN—a new, younger voice for the party. McCain, who’s been in the news lately for her spat with conservatives Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter, said she was “totally daddy’s girl,... More »

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John McCain • Ann Coulter • Larry King • Laura Ingraham • Meghan McCain • conservatives • President Obama

OPINION

Go All In on Afghan War, McCain, Lieberman Say


Mar 19, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan must roundly reject the so-called “minimalist” approach being whispered about in DC, write John McCain and Joe Lieberman in today’s Washington Post. The minimalists want the US to focus on limited, “realistic” counterterrorism goals. But McCain and Lieberman remind Obama... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • Barack Obama • John McCain • military strategy • Joe Lieberman • counter insurgency • Afghanistan war • counterinsurgency

Ingraham Calls Meghan McCain 'Useful Idiot'

Feud continues; 'I'm proud of my daughter,' says John McCain

Mar 17, 09 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain, who has recently attacked certain prominent female conservatives, is a “flavor of the month” being manipulated by the media, says one of her targets. Laura Ingraham writes on her blog—under the title 'Useful Idiot' Watch— that McCain is following her father’s maverick playbook, CNN reports.... More »

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John McCain • Ann Coulter • conservative • feud • Laura Ingraham • Meghan McCain • Meghan McCain Twitter

(Newser) - Critics, most notably John McCain, have lambasted the latest omnibus spending bill for its 8,500 earmarks; one frequently cited provision is $1 million to fight Mormon crickets in Utah. “Is that a species of cricket or a game played by the Brits?” joked McCain over Twitter. But to... More »

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John McCain • earmarks • Utah • infestation • pork barrel spending • crickets • Mormon crickets • katydids

OPINION

Obama's Not
One of Us,
Says Socialist

Lefty says prez sticks to center; a socialist only to 'odd conservatives'

Mar 15, 09 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to conservative politicians and pundits, socialists are in the limelight as never before, writes Billy Wharton in the Washington Post—and Wharton, as editor of Socialist magazine, ought to know. Mike Huckabee and John McCain became "our most effective promoters," he says, as they portrayed Obama... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • John McCain • Mike Huckabee • socialism • nationalization

Prez Won't
Fight Tax on
Health Benefits

Plan echoes McCain proposal slammed by campaigning Obama

Mar 15, 09 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite attacking John McCain for the idea on the campaign trail, President Obama will not oppose taxing some worker health benefits to fund health care reform, reports the New York Times reports. On the stump, Obama called a similar plan “the largest middle-class tax increase in history.” While... More »

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John McCain • health care costs • employer • health care reform • Obama administration • taxation • President Obama

(Newser) - ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is taking the next step with Twitter, he writes in his blog, landing Sen. John McCain for a 140-characters-at-a-time “Twitterview” on Tuesday. Stephanopoulos is also encouraging readers to send him questions for the Republican via the microblogging format that’s recently become all the rage... More »

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John McCain • Internet • George Stephanopoulos • Twitter • Twitterview • microblogging

ANALYSIS

Obama Takes Baby Steps on Earmark Reform

Some say he missed opportunity; others fault lack of specifics

Mar 12, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama announced moves to curb pork-barrel spending yesterday, but not as decisively as some hoped, Politico reports. Obama said he was signing the “imperfect omnibus because it’s necessary for the ongoing functions of government,” but in future he wants fewer earmarks in federal spending measures, and... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • earmarks • pork barrel spending • federal budget • Obama administration • President Obama

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