Khaled Meshaal, The American President Is On Line Three
16 May 2008 2:18pm GMT Jamie Rubin, writing in the Washington Post, detects a contradiction in the way Sen. John McCain prefers to relate to Hamas today. Here is McCain in 2006: RUBIN: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?" McCAIN: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous...
Obama Today Will Take On Bush's Comments
16 May 2008 12:58pm GMT Expect, as they say in the trades, some new language today from Sen. Barack Obama on President Bush's having equated him with Neville Chamberlain.
What Happened To McCain Yesterday
16 May 2008 12:45pm GMT I've tried to understand, from the perspective of the McCain campaign, what yesterday was all about. McCain spent the week putting distance between himself and President Bush. On the day McCain gives a speech that breaks with many traditions and habits of the Bush Administration; On the day McCain preaches post-partisanship, He ties himself very tightly to the President on a central and disputed element of Bush's foreign policy vision; He allows -- or his campaign allowed -- the White...
McCain Campaign To Re-Vet Entire Staff
16 May 2008 1:25am GMT After a series of disclosures forced the resignation of two McCain campaign aides with ties to unsavory regimes, the campaign has decided to scrutinize the background of the entire staff to ferret out connections to lobbyists. This morning, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge, Rick Davis, the campaign manager, e-mailed to McCain's entire staff a memo entitled "McCain Campaign Conflicts Policy" -- Effective Today" that includes a questionnaire asking about previous professional...
McCain's Response To California Decision
15 May 2008 11:43pm GMT From the campaign: “John McCain supports the right of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution sanctioning the union between a man and a woman, just as he did in his home state of Arizona. John McCain doesn’t believe judges should be making these decisions.” Not so much a comment on the decision as it is a statement of principles.
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