| November 12, 2008 | - In Chicago, a relaxed-looking Obama, who gained 700,000 Facebook friends since his election, met with Senator John McCain, who has lost 1,000 Facebook friends.
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The Guardian
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Slate
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| November 5, 2008 | -
Barack Obama was elected the 44th president, and first African-American president, of the United States, receiving 365 electoral votes in an election that saw perhaps the highest turnout among registered voters in a century. “If there's anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible,” Obama told supporters, “tonight is your answer.” “The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly,” said John McCain in a teary-eyed concession speech. “What an awesome night for you,” President Bush said to Obama. “His choice, basically, is whether he is going to be Uncle Sam... or Uncle Tom,” said Ralph Nader, who received roughly 1 percent of the popular vote.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Breitbart
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Dallas Morning News
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Independent Political Report
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| November 1, 2008 | - Evidence emerged that during the Senate Ethics Committee investigation of the Keating Five scandal in 1990, John McCain allegedly committed perjury and illegally leaked details to the press that made himself seem innocent and his colleagues seem guilty--actions that had they been exposed at the time, could have resulted in McCain's expulsion from the Senate.
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TNR
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| October 21, 2008 | -
Al Qaeda endorsed John McCain for president. “Al Qaeda,” read a message posted to a password-protected website, “will have to support McCain in the coming election so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.”
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Yahoo
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| October 16, 2008 | - A House investigative committee presented evidence that military contractor Harry Sargeant III, a top McCain fund-raiser, overcharged by tens of millions of dollars for fuel deliveries to American bases in Iraq.
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NYT
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| October 2, 2008 | - The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The legislation, which originated as a three-page proposal by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and grew to 451 pages after House and Senate negotiations, established the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to grant the Secretary of the Treasury up to $700 billion to buy troubled assets owned by financial institutions, to allow the Treasury to limit executive compensation and “golden parachutes” at those institutions, and to establish an oversight board to monitor the Treasury. The act also provides wooden arrow manufacturers an exemption from excise tax. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rushed the legislation to President George W. Bush, who signed it and promised that the United States would maintain “a leading role in the global economy.” “If I were dictator,” said Senator John McCain, who voted for the act, “which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently.” McCain also suggested the act be vetoed because it included so much pork. “No matter what the stakes are,” he said, “you've got to stop this.”
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New York Times
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ABC News
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New York Times
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Think Progress
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Think Progress
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| September 25, 2008 | - Senator John McCain announced that fixing the economy was more important than politicking, suspended his campaign, and attempted without success to postpone his first debate with Senator Barack Obama, although he continued to run campaign advertisements, including one that declared him the winner of the debate, and appeared on CBS with Katie Couric. McCain then joined congressional leaders, including Obama, at the White House to discuss the stimulus package. “I didn't see any sign,” said Representative Barney Frank, “of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever.” “All he has done,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of McCain, “is stand in front of the cameras.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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The New York Times
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Politico
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The Los Angeles Times
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| September 21, 2008 | - “He was my dear,” said former Brazilian beauty queen Maria Garcinda Teixeira de Jesus, 77, who had a tryst with McCain in 1957, “and my coconut dessert.”
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Daily News
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| September 18, 2008 | - The presidential candidates scrambled to blame each other for the financial crisis and to clarify their positions on the proposed recovery plan; John McCain said that if he were president, he'd fire the chairman of the SEC, who is not technically under presidential jurisdiction.
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The New York Times
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The Washington Post
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The Washington Post
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CNN
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Politico
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The Wall Street Journal
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ABC
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| September 16, 2008 | -
Reporters traveling on McCain's Straight Talk Air, who had not had time with the candidate for over a month, staged a protest. “Bring Mac back!” they chanted, in the coach cabin of the plane. “Bring Mac back!”
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Politico
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| September 11, 2008 | -
John McCain and Barack Obama suspended political advertising and appeared together at the World Trade Center site to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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The New York Times
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| September 10, 2008 | - Former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift, chair of the Palin Truth Squad, demanded that Obama apologize for saying that McCain's promise to change Washington amounted to putting “lipstick on a pig” and insisted that the pig was Sarah Palin. “As far as I know,” said Swift, “she's the only one of the four... who wears lipstick.”
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Washington Post
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| September 9, 2008 | -
McCain announced that “Innovators” who raised more than $250,000 during the primary season were eligible to become “Super Innovators” if they raised an additional $250,000 for the general election.
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The New York Times
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| September 4, 2008 | - Senator John McCain accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency.
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KTLA.com
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| September 2, 2008 | - “This campaign is not about issues,” said McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”
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Washington Post
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| September 2, 2008 | - It emerged that McCain did not properly vet Alaska governor Sarah Palin in selecting her as his running mate, and that he interviewed her in person only on the same day he offered her the position. Despite McCain's opposition to earmarks, Palin, when mayor of the 6,700-resident town of Wasilla (known to state troopers as Alaska's “meth capital”), hired lobbyist Steven Silver to help win federal earmarks totaling $27 million. It also emerged that Palin, 44, received her first passport in 2006.
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Washington Post
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Boston Globe
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Juneau Empire
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Talking Points Memo
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| September 1, 2008 | -
McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44, as his running mate. Palin, an evangelical Christian, supports the death penalty, believes that the “jury's still out” on global warming, opposes abortion, and is mother to five children: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and five-month-old Trig, who has Down syndrome. Rumors arose that Bristol, 17, was the actual mother of Trig; in response, Palin announced that Bristol was actually five months pregnant with the child of a man named “Levi” and would soon marry him.
| Source 1:
Telegraph.co.uk
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Washington Times
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Washington Post
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Independent
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| August 21, 2008 | -
John McCain, who does not know how many houses he owns, was expected to choose a running mate who opposes abortion, most likely either former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney or Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
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Politico
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The New York Times
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| August 5, 2008 | - A poll by Lifetime Networks found that women would prefer to carpool or vacation with Barack Obama over John McCain by a factor of two to one.
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Reuters
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| August 5, 2008 | -
McCain campaigned at a biker rally in South Dakota, at which there is each year a beauty pageant that features topless contestants performing fellatio upon bananas. “I encouraged Cindy to compete,” he told a crowd. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”
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Talking Points Memo
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| August 4, 2008 | - It was revealed that days after McCain reversed his position on offshore drilling to one of support, employees and family members from Hess oil company gave his campaign $285,000.
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Talking Points Memo
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| July 27, 2008 | -
John McCain endorsed a ban on affirmative action in his home state of Arizona.
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USA Today
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| June 25, 2008 | - The Supreme Court determined that child rapists should not be sentenced to death if their crime “did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death.” John McCain disagreed with that ruling and suggested that by executing those found guilty of “the most heinous of crimes” the United States could protect the innocence of its children, while Barack Obama suggested that the rape of a small child, “six or eight years old,” could be punished by death without violating the Constitution.
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AFP
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| June 19, 2008 | - Breaking an earlier vow, Senator Barack Obama announced that he will opt out of the public campaign-finance system, in order to be able to spend unlimited amounts of money in the last two months of his presidential campaign, rather than merely $84 million, the amount to which Senator John McCain will be limited under public-funding laws. “It'll be like George Steinbrenner's Yankees in the 90s,” Democratic consultant Chris Lehane said of Obama's campaign, which could spend as much as $500 million, “against the 90s Kansas City Royals.”
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ABC
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NYT
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IHT
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Politico
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AP via MSNBC
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| June 18, 2008 | - Ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declined to endorse McCain, who has called him “one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.”
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The Hill
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| June 14, 2008 | - The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that detainees held as “enemy combatants” by the United States in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus petitions in federal courts. “Liberty and security can be reconciled...within the framework of the law,” wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the court's decision. “The Framers decided that habeas corpus...must be...a part of that law.” Dissenting, Chief Justice John Roberts asked, “So who has won? Not the detainees. The Court's analysis leaves them with only the prospect of further litigation.” Defense lawyers for the detainees moved to establish that their clients have the right to other constitutional protections and sought to halt ongoing military-commission trials, which permit hearsay and evidence gained from torture.
John McCain called the ruling “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.” Barack Obama said, “I think the Supreme Court was right.”
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New York Times
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New York Times
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cnn
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| June 14, 2008 | -
Obama, who admitted to smoking cigarettes in recent months, told supporters that he anticipated a “brawl” with McCain and the Republican National Committee: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
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ABC
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Politico
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| June 4, 2008 | - Senator John McCain delivered a speech to a crowd of a few hundred in Kenner, Louisiana, in which he tried to rebuff Obama's charges that a McCain presidency would be a continuation of Bush policies. “That's not change we can believe in,” said McCain repeatedly. Pundits were surprised by McCain's clumsy rhetoric, by his lack of teleprompter skills, and by the fact that he stood in front of an ugly green backdrop. “Content better than delivery,” said Karl Rove. “John McCain,” said Mort Kondracke of “Roll Call,” “sounded old.”
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New York Times
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Talking Points Memo
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| May 9, 2008 | - John Goodyear, whom Senator John McCain had chosen to manage this year's Republican convention and who once managed public relations for the Myanmar junta, stepped down, and one in four Republicans voted against McCain in primaries in North Carolina and Indiana.
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Newsweek
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Politico
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| May 1, 2008 | - At a town-hall meeting in Iowa, Baptist minister Marty Parrish asked Republican presidential nominee John McCain whether it was true that he had called his wife, Cindy, a “cunt” in 1992. “You know,” McCain replied, “that's the great thing about town-hall meetings, sir, but we really don't, there's people here who don't respect that kind of language. So I'll move on.” Parrish was then escorted from the meeting by the Secret Service and local police.
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The Huffington Post
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| April 28, 2008 | - All three candidates taped messages for World Wrestling Entertainment's “W.W.E. Raw”: Clinton declared herself “ready to rumble” for the American people; Obama, echoing former wrestler Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, asked, “Do you smell what Barack is cooking?”; McCain, speaking with a surly tone, equated the Iraq war with a wrestling match and said that Americans “do not watch wrestling because we're 'bitter,'” but rather because “wrestling is about celebrating our freedom.”
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New York Times
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| April 24, 2008 | -
John McCain's campaign received a $1,000 discount on the rental fee for a public space for a fundraiser in Homewood, Alabama, along with $100 worth of free labor from the inmates of a local jail.
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Birmingham News
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| April 6, 2008 | -
Hillary Clinton and John McCain accused Barack Obama of elitism after Obama commented on the bitterness of working-class people in a speech at an expensive San Francisco fund-raiser. “They cling to guns,” said Obama, “or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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AFP
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NBC11
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BBC News
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Zombie Times
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| March 30, 2008 | -
McCain asked mortgage lenders to provide voluntary aid to homeowners, recalling that General Motors had offered no-interest car financing after September 11. Senator Hillary Clinton suggested consulting former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. While Clinton conceded that Greenspan helped cause the current crisis, she claimed that he has a “calming influence” on Wall Street. “Don't ask me why,” she said, “because I never understand what he's saying.” Senator Barack Obama gave a stirring speech, invoking the history of American finance from Hamilton and Jefferson to the present day, and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. proposed the largest reform of the American financial system since the Great Depression.
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LAT
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LAT
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NYT
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WP
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Attytood
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NYT
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Boston Globe
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WP
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WSJ
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Businessweek via Der Spiegel
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NYT
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WP
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| March 19, 2008 | - Senator John McCain visited Jordan and told reporters that it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran.” Senator Joe Lieberman was seen whispering into McCain's ear, after which McCain apologized. “The Iranians are training extremists,” he explained. “Not Al Qaeda.” Later, in Jerusalem, a fistfight among photographers, soldiers, police officers, and tourists erupted at McCain's Western Wall photo shoot, resulting in damage to several pairs of sunglasses.
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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| February 24, 2008 | -
Ralph Nader, who is older than John McCain, announced his fifth run for the presidency.
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Meet the Press
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| February 22, 2008 | -
Congressman Rick Renzi (R., Ariz.), one of McCain's campaign managers, was indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, insurance fraud, and extortion, but mostly for using his office to promote a swap of federal land to collect on a debt owed by a former associate.
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AP via Yahoo News
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| February 21, 2008 | - The New York Times published an article insinuating that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist a decade ago.
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New York Times
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| February 21, 2008 | - The League of Conservation Voters said that McCain had the worst environmental record of all 535 members of Congress for 2007 and had missed more crucial votes than members who died in the middle of their terms.
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The Trail
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| February 14, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Clinton by huge margins in primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, and Senator John McCain beat former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The close Democratic race worried party superdelegates, who will play a decisive role in choosing a candidate. Nancy Larson, a lobbyist and superdelegate from Minnesota, characterized superdelegates in general as “big schmucks.” Alaskan superdelegate Cindi Spanyers received a call from former president Bill Clinton, who recalled his wife's work on a fish cannery slime line there, and Obama was endorsed by the fishing village of Obama, Japan. McCain was endorsed by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and ex-president George H. W. Bush.
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New York Times
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Washington Post
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Los Angeles Times
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Washington Post
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AP via Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Los Angeles Times
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Star Tribune
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Anchorage Daily News
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Guardian
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LAT
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AP via Google
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| February 7, 2008 | - In the G.O.P. primaries on Super Tuesday, John McCain emerged as the likely Republican presidential nominee after winning California,
New York, New Jersey, and other “blue states”; Mike Huckabee won states in the South, and Mitt Romney won states in which he has owned a home. Romney later announced the end of his presidential campaign to an audience that moaned and cried “No, no!” “Size,” explained Romney, referring to the number of delegates pledged to McCain, “does matter.”
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Talking Points Memo
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National Post
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Breitbart
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| January 8, 2008 | -
John McCain and a tearful Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primaries.
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NYTimes.com
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| October 27, 2007 | - Senator John McCain promised workers at Thompson Center Arms, a small-weapons factory in Rochester, New Hampshire, that he would “follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell” and “shoot him with your products.” McCain also promised that if he were elected “the background music would be ABBA in the elevators all over the White House” and proposed “Take a Chance on Me” as his campaign song.
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Boston Globe
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Austin American Statesman
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| September 4, 2007 | - A high school student in New Hampshire asked John McCain if the senator was too old to be president. “Thanks for the question, you little jerk,” McCain replied. “You're drafted!”
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AP via Yahoo News
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| July 12, 2007 | -
John McCain, whose campaign was collapsing, was suspected of violating both Senate ethics rules and criminal law by making a fundraising call from the Republican cloakroom in the Senate.
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Washington Post
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NYT
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| May 15, 2007 | -
Jerry Falwell died. “Dr. Falwell,” said Senator John McCain, “was a man of distinguished accomplishment.”
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The New York Times
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The Hill
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| April 19, 2007 | - Senator John McCain entertained a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina by singing “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys.
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Georgetown Times
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| April 15, 2007 | - Senator John McCain assessed the situation in Iraq, saying “I have no Plan B . . . If I saw that doomsday scenario evolving, then I would try to come up with one.”
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NYT
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| March 1, 2007 | - On
The Late Show with David Letterman
, Senator John McCain confirmed that he is running for president. Candidly discussing the war in Iraq, he said, “We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.” In response to Democrats who scolded him for using the word ”wasted,” McCain replied, ”I should have used the word 'sacrificed'.”
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CNN
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| November 19, 2006 | - Senator John McCain said that American troops in Iraq were “fighting and dying for a failed policy”; Henry Kissinger said that he didn't believe a military victory in Iraq is possible.
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The New York Times
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| September 3, 2006 | - A spokesman for the Republic of Georgia confirmed that a surface-to-air missile had been fired at a helicopter carrying U.S. Senator John McCain.
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Azcentral.com via the Drudge Report
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| July 29, 2006 | -
Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain held a vodka-drinking
contest.
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New York Times
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| June 22, 2006 | -
Senator Rick Santorum insisted the United States had in fact discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and Senator John McCain said the U.S. had two options there: “Withdraw and fail, or commit and succeed.”
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The New York Times
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Lynchburg, Virginia, at Liberty University (which fines its students $500 if they engage in witchcraft), Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) stood next to Jerry Falwell and spoke in support of the Iraq war.
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The New York Times
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Liberty University
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| December 16, 2005 | -
President Bush was forced to approve the McCain Amendment, which will ban “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of terrorism detainees.”
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AP
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| February 22, 2005 | -
Senator
John McCain called for permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan.
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The Guardian
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| December 14, 2004 | - Senator John McCain said he had no confidence in Donald Rumsfeld.
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New York Times
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| November 21, 2004 | - Senator John McCain called for up to 50,000 more troops in Iraq.
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AFP
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| December 11, 2003 | - The United States Supreme Court upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law, which bans unlimited political contributions to political parties. The majority concluded that "it was not unwarranted for Congress to conclude that the selling of access gives rise to the appearance of corruption."
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New York Times
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| November 5, 2002 | -
The Democratic and Republican parties established state organizations to circumvent the ban on soft-money donations enacted by the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law.
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| June 25, 2002 | -
The Federal Election Commission issued rules interpreting the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law in such a way that soft money, the main target of the law, was not really banned after all.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Senator John McCain, a Republican, spent the weekend with Senator Tom Daschle, a Democrat; rumors of McCain's imminent defection were denied.
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| 0, 2000 | -
John McCain refused to answer questions about his economic plan, but was reportedly considering a cut in the capital gains tax.
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AP
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| August 22, 2000 | - Senator John McCain had two malignant melanomas removed.
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| June 0, 2000 | - Researchers in Ohio, where polls show Obama with a seven-point lead over McCain, said that narcissists are more likely to seek--and to be granted--authority over others. “They are usually charming and extroverted,” explained a psychologist. “But the problem is, they don't necessarily make better leaders.”
| Source 1:
Science Daily
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Bloomberg News via Yahoo!
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