Jun 16, 2009 -
In which the author imagines what America would be like if the GOP's man had won. Critics of Obama, take note.
By Michael Lind
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/16/president_mccain/index.html
Picture, if you will, an America apparently like our own.
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Oct 29, 2008 -
By Andrew Zajac, Ray Gibson and Bob Secter | Tribune reporters
October 29, 2008
Big campaign donors typically come with deep pockets and influence. But in Illinois this election cycle, no one not running for office himself has given more to the nation's federal campaigns than Shi Sheng Hao of Roselle, a virtual unknown in business and political circles.
Before September 2007, Hao's name had never appeared in the 15-year-old federal database of campaign contributors.
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Oct 22, 2008 -
Haha, here's Tina Fey with McCain on the cover of LIFE magazine back in September 2004.
Bill Shapiro writes to Romenesko: I'm the former managing editor LIFE (the newspaper supplement version). After The Speech last night, I couldn't help recall our third cover featuring McCain and....
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Oct 02, 2008 -
If we had to choose one good thing (and there are many) from Tim Dickinson's profile of John McCain in the new issue of Rolling Stone, it would be the plethora of insults that Dickinson finds to amuse the reader. I mean, if you're at all like us, the same-old McCain insults — old, out of touch, unfunny, wrong on the issues, quick-to-anger, Cap'n Crappypants — are getting boring. That's why we decided to round up the new ones...
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Sep 16, 2008 -
John McCain struck a tough, quasi-populist pose this morning during his morning sweep of the television news shows. Speaking to NBC's Matt Lauer about the current crisis on Wall Street, the Republican nominee said executives have "treated it like a casino and need to be held accountable and stop walking away with these fat-cat packages."
Leave aside for the moment the fact that one of McCain's top economic advisers, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, walked away with a $42 million "golden parachute" after being fired.
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Sep 15, 2008 -
Obama On Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers And Wall Street Crisis
CHICAGO — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Monday the upheaval on Wall Street was "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression" and blamed it on policies that he said Republican rival John McCain supports.
"This country can't afford another four years of this failed philosophy," Obama said after the shock-wave announcements that financial giant Lehman Brothers was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while titan Merrill Lynch was being bought by Bank of America for about $50 billion.
Obama's statement, issued as he prepared to fly to Colorado to begin a swing through contested Western states, was intended to serve two purposes: to link McCain with the unpopular presidency of George W.
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Sep 15, 2008 -
Huffington Post
Sam Stein
McCain On 'Black Monday': Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Still Strong
John McCain may want to refine his economic message a bit more during this potentially disastrous week for the financial sector.
On the campaign trail in Jacksonville, Florida, the Senator declared this morning that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," despite what he described as "tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street."
The line may seem like GOP boilerplate, save for the fact that this morning, the McCain campaign released a television ad that began: "Our economy is in crisis."
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