Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.
http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/080626-sowell-obama-mccain.php
]]>SAN JOSE—Senator John McCain rejected the endorsement on Thursday of the evangelical leader, the Rev. John C. Hagee, three stormy months after it was first announced as part of an effort to shore up Mr. McCain’s standing among Christian conservatives. The Rev. John C. Hagee (Photo: Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times) The rejection of Mr. Hagee’s endorsement occurred after another controversial sermon from the televangelist and pastor of Cornerstone, a mega-church in San Antonio, surfaced in which he argued that biblical verses made clear that Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust was part of God’s plan to chase the Jews from Europe and drive them to Palestine.
]]>It's finally happened! After years of hiding, the G.O.P. has finally found us, and they're striking back with a vengence. That's right, today when I got home, I got the mail and there it was, a white envelope with the return address of John McCain's Washington office. The Republican presumtive...
http://alaking.vox.com/library/post/with-love-john-mccain.html
]]>Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) at the Republican National Convention in September. Republicans cl...
]]>I visited Wikipedia to find the Republican primary & caucus results. I tabulated the reported vote subtotals and tabulated them. It appears that Senator McCain received 7,908,469 votes. The total vote reported at Wikipedia is 18,199,065. 7,908,469 voted for McCain, 10,290,596 voted for someone else....
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]]>I'm trying to look past the Democratic primary to the general election. Now, there are some people who say that McCain wouldn't be that bad. I'm here to tell you that this is a gravely mistaken assumption. Here's one in a long list of reasons why McCain would be just as bad as Bush... Equal pay for...
http://thedude.vox.com/library/post/elections-have-consequences.html
]]>A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques. The blast was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left at least 72 Iraqis dead, including six youths killed when mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field in eastern Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers also were killed Monday in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, bringing the American death toll closer to 4,000 as the U.S.-led war enters its sixth year. At least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The violence marred overlapping trips by Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain to Baghdad. Their visits were aimed at touting recent security gains and stressing Washington's long-term commitment to fighting insurgents in Iraq.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8VFEV280
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