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John McCain 0061734950
This book is a great review of McCain's life up to the point where he gets over the huge conflict of being a POW. The beginning of the book was very slow and uninteresting, but as you move further on he really gets his voice. Actually, only a few of the stories about his grandfather ...
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- The election in sight and the economy reeling, Barack Obama and John McCain fought over causes, cures and the final votes that will make one of them president. Obama tied McCain to President Bush and said Americans are paying a steep price for the partnership...
2008-10-31 08:48:04 the Literary Saloon
Katie Couric gets the scoop on the American presidential candidates' favourite books: Barack Obama goes for Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (with a nod to the Bible and Shakespeare), while John McCain picks Hemingway.
2008-10-31  GoozNews
Today's New York Times carries more evidence of dysfunction in the individual insurance market, where many more Americans are being forced as they lose jobs and where John McCain would send them if his health care plan were enacted. The...
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© Paraflyer Es ist schon eine interessante Diskussion, die derzeit zum Thema "US-Wahlkampf und Weblogging" im Gang ist. Die einen sprechen sogar schon von einem Web 2.0-Wahlkampf, wieder andere gehen davon aus, dass die Weblogs lediglich eine unterhaltsame Fußnote darstellen. Unbest...
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2008-10-30  Blurred Clarity
I come back from Lincoln after two great shows (although, once again, the venue couldn't sell tickets for shit) and I discover that Obama has been running half-hour ads on US television, with the seemingly sole purpose of making honky's feel comfortable having a Negro running their cou...
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John McCain campaigns across the US state of Ohio, which he must win to have any chance of reaching the White House.
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Some viewers who watched the Barack Obama commercial on one of the broadcast networks switched to MSNBC at 8:30. Obama pulled in 3.5 million Total Viewers on MSNBC, the only cable news network to air the infomercial. An abbreviated Countdown with Keith Olbermann at 8:30pmET brought in...
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2008-10-30  Stumper
From John McCain's rally this morning in Defiance, Ohio: Where was Joe, you ask? Perhaps he was meeting with his new, Nashville-based manager, Jim Della Croce. Perhaps he was rehearsing tunes for his potential country album. Perhaps he was plotting a run for Congress ("Joe the Congr...
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2008-10-30  Climate Progress
An intriguing story from Greenwire (subs. req’d): Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said yesterday on a late-night comedy show that global warming cannot be solved without participation from Republicans, and he pledged to work with his Republican rival, Sen. John McC...
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In Missouri, polls show presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama are neck and neck. Two voters — a deckhand on a small passenger ferry and a fuel truck driver who takes the ferry — have vastly different takes on the election.
Meghan McCain B001BHI0EY
Concerned that the real John McCain story was not being told, Robert Greenwald and his team at Brave New Films decided they HAD to do something about it, so they did some extensive research on his flip-flopping. The result is a series of short films laying bare the fallacy of the strai...
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2008-10-30  Seed Magazine
Can a statistical model account for all the different factors that influence which lever voters will pull on Tuesday? Illustration: Joe Kloc Electoral predictions have traditionally been the territory of pundits and politicians, but as polling results become more widely accessible ...
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2008-10-30  BlogHer
If you are anything like me (and god help you if you are) you're a big ball of mess over this election. So instead of a typical Erin post about those pesky 'issues' or 'candidates' I'm going to have some fun today. Why? Easy... I can't take it anymore. If we talk about those 'issues'...
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John McCain finally glad-hands Iowans, but it is probably too lateThe Davenport Central High School cheerleaders gathered on October 11th to do what they do best. “We say John, you say McCain! John!”, “McCain!”, the crowd hollered back, in a frenzy. The hall in ...
The McCain campaign is pushing hard on the Rashid Khalidi story. Khalidi is a public intellectual and a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University. He has a history of critical statements about Israel and has been accused of serving as a PLO spokesman decades ago. He denies that ...
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Barack Obama and John McCain are embarking on a frenzied, multi-state blitz over the final days of the election campaign as the Republican candidate claimed the polls are tightening in his favour.McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, told reporters in a conference call today: "We're...
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Calling Barack Obama a "risk" that "America should take," The Economist endorses him and laments, "If only the real John McCain had been running." readmore
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Son of a witch! The insufferable Ghost of Writer’s Block has visited me, my friends! As the clock counts down to Hallow’s Eve, I’ve been trying desperately to write a ghoulish satire, to consecrate this wicked jubilee, but all of my demented ideas have proven to be too ghastly t...
2008-10-30  Cable & Tweed
Over on ebay, one-of-a-kind Cabbage Patch Kids representing Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, and Sarah Palin are being auctioned to benefit Toys for Tots.Cabbage Patch Obama and Cabbage Patch McCainPersonally, I fear these creepy dolls will take a hatchet and scalpel to more than ...
The Maverick-iest candidate has hip-hop support from R.A. the Rugged Man Four tracks into his Monday Monster Jam performance, Brooklyn rap czar Jay-Z stops the music and points to a freeze-frame image of George W. Bush on the titanic screen above the TD Banknorth Garden stage. Fo...
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Exxon Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company Thursday, surging past analyst estimates. The leading U.S. oil company said its third-quarter net profit was $14.83 billion. In a move that shocked industry analysts, however, Exxon-Mobil...
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John McCain 0375501916
This book is a great review of McCain's life up to the point where he gets over the huge conflict of being a POW. The beginning of the book was very slow and uninteresting, but as you move further on he really gets his voice. Actually, only a few of the stories about his grandfather ...
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Ugh. About the best thing one can say about this Saxby Chambliss endorsement, despite the paper's own coverage of and disgust with his sleaziness, is that it "marks the conclusion of endorsements offered by the Banner-Herald for this year's elections." So you can go elsewhere to any ot...
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2008-10-30  On Faith
Ignorance and intolerance of the faiths or lack of faith of others is a huge problem in a world where religion is the main motivating force for most people. As Americans we must try to understand and respect beliefs we do not share as long as they are not imposed on us and do not infri...
2008-10-30  Wired: Threat Level
Add Bexar County to the growing list of Texas counties where voters say they are having trouble with touch-screen machines flipping their votes. A computer security expert who works for the federal government said that his ES&S iVotronic paperless touch-screen machine in San Antonio f...
, E-Voting , Election
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John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey:This, indeed was why McCain's campaign could never score a serious hit. Despite the cries of "Marxism" and waving the bloody shirt of 60's radicalism, Senator Obama has cultivated a studiously boring policy presence. Chris and I were talking in t...
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2008-10-30  Salon: War Room
This video's been up on a bunch of other blogs already, but it's worth posting because it's just nice to see McCain spokesman and blogger Michael Goldfarb getting his just desserts. As Jonathan Martin notes, we probably do know the identity of the second...
Barack Obama shoots hoops for good luck, and John McCain has been known to break out his special L.L. Bean shoes. Guests and listeners discuss the role of superstition in politics. Which "lucky charms" will be brought into the White House? E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us
      How do you get people to believe that if you can’t get the press to make an honest assessment of it? You tell a story. “When it came down to a choice between my very life and my country, I chose my country.” That’s why the story’s important. Just as Obama’s story...
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Every presidential election, abortion becomes a tense issue and I suspect that will never change.  Let me first say I respect those whose commitment to the unborn extends beyond the election rhetoric.  I have a friend whose life long calling and job is to fight for the unborn...
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Nearly two years of presidential politics are finally coming to an end and it appears John McCain--out of "gimmicks du jour"--has decided to spend much of the final stretch blaming his failing bid on the Republicans' favorite whipping post: the media. The campaign this week accused t...
2008-10-30  Capital Eye
Widely perceived to be one of the nation's biggest challenges, health care reform will be at the top of the next administration's agenda, and a battle over proposed changes is certain. For the past 15 years, the health sector, which is already gearing up for next year's fight, has give...
, Congressional , Health , Health , Hospitals/nursing , Influence , Insurance , Lobbying , Lobbyists , Pharmaceutical/Health , Presidential , barackobama , johnmccain
Anvil B0019CWFJW
Gee, didn't Bin Laden attack America under Bush's watch? Didn't Bush fail to capture or kill him in the 7 years since then? Seems like Obama can't do any worse than that!
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The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain have winnowed their focus to a dwindling number of states.
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2008-10-30  Think Progress
Yesterday, in an interview with Sean Hannity, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani alleged that Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) plan to reduce taxes for the middle class was a ploy to create “a welfare system” in the U.S. Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care plan al...
, Healthy , Giuliani , Health , McCain
2008-10-30  Featured Stories
Marc Ambinder learned you can't tease the Obama camp about the $5 million, 30-minute Barack-umentary; he tried. MSNBC's First Read said no matter what anyone thought of the Barack-block, it has "gobbled up a day's worth of attention. And we now have just five days left..." The Caucus r...
Sen. John McCain's strategy for winning Pennsylvania requires the votes of blue-collar Democrats who traditionally vote Republican in national elections. McCain also needs the support of former Clinton voters to turn the Democratic-leaning state red. We talk with some of those voters a...
2008-10-30  All Spin Zone
So much for Joe the Plumber! Now that Joe is busy turning his fifteen minutes of fame into a book deal or a country music recording contract…or some other means to capitalize on his notoriety so he can actually earn the 250K he told Barack Obama he planned to make when he bought ...
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2008-10-30  techPresident
The Web on the Candidates On-the-Go Where to Vote Info: If our referral logs and those of our friends are any indication, where to go to cast a ballot is at the top of many peoples' minds these days. A neat new mobile tool from CREDO Mobile, the New Organizing Institute, and Mobile C...
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In an October 28 McClatchy Newspapers article, chief political correspondent Steven Thomma wrote that Sen. John McCain "hammered" Sen. Barack Obama "as someone who'd ... rais[e] taxes on small businesses, much like the plumbing business in Ohio that 'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher said ...
Between the two of them, John McCain and Barack Obama will spend close to $400 million trying to convince you to vote for them next week. Four hundred million dollars. One would think, with that kind of money to spend, their marketing would be a whole lot better.I decided to save all o...
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Hello people of the Western States. To keep things “pure,” your editor has not read the previous liveblogs, so this whole song-and-dance will be new. We missed John McCain on the Larry King Show,, too. But we saw Ron Paul on Rachel Maddow’s show! Let’s see what&...
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2008-10-29  Greg Palast
Do you think your vote's going to count this year? Think again. Unless you take action now, your vote may already be lost. Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast, who uncovered exactly how the election was "won" in 2000, teamed up with activist, attorney, broadcaster and wr...
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John McCain B001E87KNC
This is a neat mask, great for a costume party, but it is only $10.00 at Walmart!
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I’ve been watching (happily) the recent emergence of autism as a topic of the U.S. presidential race. Actually, it is the emergence of autism as a topic for the republicans, as Senator Obama has had a clear policy statement on autism and on disabilities in general. Recently, ...
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2008-10-29  LeadingSmart
It's been an interesting dialogue this week. My first post in this week leading up to the election was an article by Donald Miller on why he is voting for Obama. I followed it up yesterday with an article by Brett McCracken on why he is not voting for Obama. Today's article is by Camer...
2008-10-29  Reflections of Time
First Obama is the Messiah and now he's got his own constitution which dates back perhaps to his radical left wing associations to Bill Ayers, Farrakhan, Wright and Khallidi. I guess people are flocking to live in Chicago given the leadership of this town and it's influence from the fa...
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2008-10-29  Firedoglake
Kenny Loggins - Highway To The Danger Zone. Did John McCain see this film and think that Maverick was a good nickname for him?  Old Crash And Burn McCain ain't no Top Gun - not like that worked out well for Duke Cunningham either.  I will, however, give McCain this - a McCain presi...
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2008-10-29  Videogum
Here are three more of those "famous directors made ads for John McCain" spoofs. Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman, David Lynch, and M. Night Shyamalan this time. You know, I want change and everything, but this is getting exhausting. If I post this we're done, right? Sarah Palin is President ...
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2008-10-29  MissWisabus.com
The Yin-Yang News of the Day at Kick the Anthill: Voter Fraud Edition. Worth a look. Halloween party in two days. I’m dressing as Sarah Palin. Kevin is going to be John McCain. And yes, it was totally my idea and he loves me. But this is a fun, easy Halloween costume. Even easier...
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2008-10-29  PoliTits
It's hard to blog in the office with the boss is around. I hate it when real life gets in the way of blogging.....You Must Be Doing It WrongTell me again how tax cuts help businesses grow so they can create jobs and hire people. I'm just not seeing it. Because we've had corporate tax ...
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Obama says the comment proves the McCain healthcare plan is fatally flawed. Douglas Holtz-Eakin accuses the Democrat's campaign of distorting his words. Barack Obama on Tuesday seized on comments mad...
Obama saved the most important words of his rousing speech in Florida at midnight, with Bill Clinton at his side, for the end: "Power concedes nothing without a fight." In other words, don't rest confident in the polls. If you Obama to be President, make sure you vote, and encourage ...
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This is not directed at any one reader or casual visitor but, really, directed at the idea of "impeachment" as the "remedy" for what ails the country. It is not a "remedy." It is a procedure. Should Bush and Cheney be impeached? Yes. What then? And that's where this entire situation br...
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2008-10-28  The Ostroy Report
These days, its hard to tell the difference between Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and Sesame Street. The award winning children's educational television program has a colorful cast of imaginative characters like Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog, Wo...
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2008-10-28  PostClassic
We in American music owe a great debt to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Those two have so cheapened and tainted the word "maverick" that it will be at least a generation, maybe two, before anyone will be able to use the word non-ironically again. And that means, surely, that there will b...
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As the US elections will soon come to a crucial conclusion one final face-off of the two United states presidential candidate is at hand. This is the face-off between John McCain and Barack Obama. A minimovie and a hilarious parody of the bout between the two US presidentiables in t...
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2008-10-28  Effect Measure
Governor Palin's "fruitfly moment" was a display of her utter contempt and disregard for modern science, perhaps even more emblematic than her belief that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. But John McCain has his own moments where we can see his true self: "It has to be safe, environm...
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