If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in t ...
Is Barack Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform? ...
A remark seen as a rebuke to Barack Obama likened those who would negotiate with “terrorists” to Nazi appeasers. ...
Speaking to the NRA today, John McCain called Obama's foreign relations plans "reckless." The McCain quote (courtesy of from Ben Smith at The Politico): Earlier today, Sen. Obama made a few re ...
AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge ...
Marc cites CNN's Ed Henry: While the words Barack Obama were never used White House aides privately admit the President referring not just to Barack Obama but other Democrats like Jimmy Carter, for ex ...
The three candidates oppose same-sex marriage, but say couples should be entitled to the legal protections afforded married couples. ...
Senator John McCain’s support for the war in Iraq, informed by his experience, is lonely but unwavering. ...
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 ...
The California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that gays have a constitutional right to marry, striking down state laws that forbade it, in a decision that is likely to reenergize the election-year deba ...
John McCain’s comments were a striking departure from his usual refusal to set a date for American withdrawal. ...
An odd coalition of angry Republicans and antiwar Democrats yesterday torpedoed a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving the House to pass a measure ...
The surge in turnout Barack Obama has helped to generate could signal a threat to the Republican dominance of the South. ...
JERUSALEM, May 15 -- On an emotional visit to mark Israel's 60th anniversary, President Bush on Thursday compared people seeking talks with Iran and radical Islamic groups to the Nazis' appeasers, pro ...
Barack Obama today slammed President Bush for launching "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and that alienates us from the world." He also took a shot at John McCain for e ...
The politics of inclusion. ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 15 -- Sen. John McCain on Thursday offered for the first time what he hopes will be an end date for the war in Iraq, part of a vision he presented in which his policies lead to pea ...
(cross-posted at Huffington Post) Dear Mr. Bush, Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in ...
This is the master politician? ...
Some of the group’s affiliates and other abortion-rights advocates said that there was no need to take sides in the Democratic primary. ...
Barack Obama has called President Bush's comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world." ...
AP - In President Bush's hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans portrayed John Kerry as irresolute and weak on national security ...
Senator Barack Obama responded sharply to attacks on his foreign policy and attempted to turn the tables on his Republican critics. ...
While speaking to the Israeli Knesset yesterday, President Bush compared those who advocate speaking directly to our enemies to Nazi appeasers, a comment interpreted as a hit at Sen. Barack Obama (D-I ...
With help from the President, the two presumptive candidates fire at each other over foreign policy. Welcome to the campaign ...
In general election preview, Obama accuses McCain and Bush of “dishonest, divisive attacks." See also: McCain: Obama's 'reckless' ...
The old John McCain would just admit he changed his position and move on. But the new John McCain campaign is incapable of that. Instead, they are reverting to an attack on the messenger. The ques ...
Bush will headline a $500-per-person lunch and reception for McCain on May 28th in Salt Lake City. ...
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