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Republicans skip Benghazi hearing; complain about lack of information on Benghazi | The Cable

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:44:49 +0000

But although McCain had time to speak on the Senate floor and on television about the lack of information provided to Congress about the attack, he didn't attend the classified briefing for senators Wednesday given to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which he is a member.

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McCain Predicts Rise of Third Party

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:44:05 +0000

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predicted a third political party will emerge in response to Americans' economic frustrations and said it might as well be called "the Fed-Up Party," Reuters reports.

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Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:20:17 +0000

part of the primaries and the election as an RPG encounter

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GOP Knives Come Out; Palin Gets Filleted

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:22:09 +0000

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Mark Maynard - it’s the company you keep

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:22:14 +0000

"I know a lot of you out there don’t plan to vote for Barack Obama. I can accept that. As much as I think America desperately needs the hope for a better future that he embodies, I can admit that he’s deficient in certain areas. And, I can see how his charisma and celebrity status might put some people off. I get all that. And I don’t want to change your mind. What I would like to convince you of, however, is that you shouldn’t reward McCain and Palin, who have, over the course of this campaign, appealed to the basest elements in our nature, with your vote. They have lied, engaged in race baiting, and even gone so far as to infer that their opponent - a United States Senator - is a terrorist, and a threat to our nation. I have to think that a majority of Republicans find that kind of behavior reprehensible. ... It is no longer a party of ideas. It has become the last refuge of anti-intellectuals, and fear mongers. It is the party of Sarah Palin."

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What was I thinking when I called Sarah Palin a bitch? « Margaret and Helen

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:24:56 +0000

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Like, Socialism: Comment: The New Yorker

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:34:43 +0000

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”

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Does Obama / McCain slash fiction exist? | Ask Metafilter

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:05:49 +0000

I really wish this question had not been asked. Mu, dear god, mu! "Does Obama / McCain slash fiction exist? If so, where can I find it and what are the major themes in the genre?"

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The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:43 +0000

"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."

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Sheddings - They're Palin and McCain...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:28:09 +0000

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LETTERMAN CONFRONTS MCCAIN ON LIDDY - The Washington Monthly

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:35:41 +0000

"As of last night, McCain is "not in any was embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy." I have a follow-up question: Why not? And one more: what does it say about McCain's character that he pals around with an unrepentant convicted felon who's talked openly about killing federal officials?"

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Story of Joe the Plumber springs many leaks

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:42:44 +0000

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Gettin’ All Mavericky by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 13 October 2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:23:07 +0000

"Nevertheless, Palin’s verbal hodgepodge may say nothing about her qualifications for the vice presidency. Judgment and political acumen could well rest on different mental capacities than the ability to order thoughts into smooth sentences. But the inability to answer a straightforward question about economic policy without becoming tangled in words suggests either ignorance about the subject matter or a difficulty connecting between ideas. Neither explanation is reassuring. "

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Scott Bakula Jumps Into McCain's Body Just Before Election | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:24:34 +0000

"With Republican nominee John McCain continuing to flounder at the polls, the unknown force that orders the universe announced yesterday that Scott Bakula has entered the body of the struggling Arizona senator in order to "help him out of a real jam.""

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McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality - Times Online

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:12:24 +0000

"With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign. "

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