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McCain misses Medicare vote

Posted by Damianmann from Arizona Central

Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the only senator who did not vote this week on a Medicare bill that halted doctor pay cuts but slashed billions in funding from private insurers.

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McCain's broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship

Posted by Jeff from Los Angeles Times

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.

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Bob Cesca: Killing Iranian Civilians Isn't Hilarious, Senator McCain on The Huffington Post

Posted by Damianmann from Huffington Post

Senator McCain has famously said, "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war." How, then, should we describe a clearly unbalanced presidential candidate who jokes about killing innocent civilians as part of a larger war-mongering foreign policy?

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Jon Soltz: The Flip Flopper on Iraq? McCain

Posted by Damianmann from Huffington Post

You'd think with all the media consternation with the non-existent "flip flop" of Obama on Iraq (you know, the one where he didn't change his position at all), reporters would be blowing their stack at the true flip flop from John McCain on Iraq.

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McCain Blasts Obama For FISA 'Flip-Flop'

Posted by Jeff from Feeds.huffingtonpost

Never one to miss an opportunity for a lunge to the jugular, the McCain campaign's rapid response man is going after Barack Obama's failure to support a filibuster on the FISA compromise bill in the Senate.

Quoth Tucker Bounds:

"A few short months ago, Barack Obama outwardly opposed terrorist surveillance legislation, saying that he would filibuster any bill that includes immunity for American telecommunications companies that had been asked by the government to participate in the program. Today, the U.S. Senate will approve legislation providing the immunity Barack Obama supposedly opposed, and despite his promise, he will not support a filibuster. What Barack Obama will do is show that he's willing to change positions, break campaign commitments and undermine his own words in his quest for higher office.

But of course if Obama were supporting a filibuster today, Bounds would likely be at the Illinois Democrat's throat for blindly putting the liberal "party line" ahead of the national security risks purportedly addressed by the FISA legislation, which McCain also supports. The reason we can say this with confidence is because that's precisely the line Bounds used against Obama two weeks ago to attack him, at that particular second, for inflexibility on the matter of national security when it comes to Iraq:

"The Obama campaign's ideological determination for withdrawal at any cost has blinded them to the facts on the ground even as they avoid the advice of our commanders. America is looking for a leader who will put country before the party line, and on issues from Iraq to energy, Barack Obama has offered nothing but the same old partisan positions." (Emphasis mine)

So if Obama shows flexibility on a national security matter, he's an untrustworthy hack -- and if he stands his ground, he's a rigid partisan. That's a neat game of three card monte, as far as it goes, but as TIME's Michael Scherer has noted, this kind of rapid response inanity hastens along the already precipitous pace of the dumbing-down of American politics. Especially since the McCain campaign would like to have flexibility be the province of noble statesmen when it comes to the issue of, say, offshore drilling.

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How New And Fresh Is Obama?

Posted by theauthor from Thenewpundit

The supporters of Senator Barack Obama continuously tout their candidate as a new type of candidate, a man that is positioned above the fray of the political process. A political genius filled with new and exciting ideas to "change" our country. Obama is indeed a new and fresh face in politics. He served 7 years in the Illinois state legislature before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He served just 2 years in the Senate before declaring his candidacy for the office of President. He has relied on his gifted oratory skills to deliver speeches that have inspired a cult-like following. It will come as no surprise that I do not share the same lofty opinion of the junior Senator from Illinois.

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McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In

Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot

The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

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